This advice is too late for you today, but take comfort that if you have no other eye issues, the surgery is quick and simple. Regarding the lens replacement, there is a third alternative, although more expensive. They are called accommodating lens implants. They are lens that move within the eye to achieve the proper focus. I had two of them implanted a number of years ago with 10+ diopter eye glass prescriptions before the surgery and have been very pleased with the results including no need for reading glasses.
The surgeon doing my implants is considered the best in Northern California. We considered doing those, but their success rate with my elongated eyeballs is only 15% as well. The risk of failure requiring revision surgery was too high. . .Which has a much higher risk of failure as well. It was my choice and vision is too important for convenience of no glasses to trip it over to take the risk.