“I had a host of upper level eye disorders that neither glasses, nor contacts could fix.”
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Are you talking about higher order abberrations such as coma, spherical abberration and trefoil?
Yours is a rare case indeed if such esoterica, uncorrected, rendered your vision unacceptable.
I’m happy you had a satisfactory surgical outcome.
“coma, spherical abberration and trefoil”
Yes, those, together with some very odd astigmatisms.
My left was was 20/20. Go figure.
Cut my football career short, as I really couldn’t see well on my right side. Peripheral vision was crap.
I had Lasik in 1997. I don’t know if they still do this today, but at the time they undercorrected, then went back and revised to give a good result. I was 20/15 afterwards. Worth every penny. Even though it was 2000 bucks per eye then. Over the years, my vision has worsened to where I need glasses to drive, or go to the movies, but the lenses are paper thin. I’ll take that over my coke bottles any day.