You can keep your glasses. I’ve chucked my for good. I’m living happily ever after for almost two years now, with perfect close vision, perfect mid-range vision, and near perfect distance vision. I had cataract surgery in both eyes, and multi-focal lenses implanted. I was hoping my surgeon could give me binocular eyes as well, but that didn’t happen. Life is good.
For the record, I think you’d want to be awake for when the doctor needs you to look in a certain direction to make sure he has things in the correct location. I didn’t have any pain at all during the surgeries. I did have a little bit of anxiety, but listening to him talk or focusing on the music was very helpful.
I have 20/20 vision.