I would like to add to your question and I hope you get responses. What can be done for the need for reading glasses? Is that the same as farsightedness? Maybe it’s the same question as your wife’s. I think the last time I went to the eye doctor they said that Lasic wasn’t for that problem yet.
They correct one eye for near viewing and one for far viewing. I didn’t have that but they usually recommend it for folks near 40.
As far as I know - nada.
loss of clear near vision is a result of age, loss of elasticity, hence, loss of ability to refocus or even focus at close range.
I use readers about 40% of the time, and I always use them when I first wake up (Because you aren't focused on anything while sleeping?).
I've had my eyes done twice, way back in the scalpel days, and almost twenty years later by Lasex. Neither was a trauma but the Lasex bordered on being fun.
DO NOT se3ledft your doctor based on price, go with numbers of successful surgeries and reputation/quality of the facility. Sorry, but there are some failures out there, go ahead and pay the added bucks as insurance against any other form of added price.