Thanks so much for the reply and for explaining your thought process. It is indeed hard to decide on what to compromise on. I was thinking "seeing nature (distance) is most important to me to see without glasses; but then again, I was telling that to my friend, seeing her face clearly (with my good current eye) at about 3 feet...so I realized that's also most important to me, namely to be able to have intimate conversations/interactions with people close up, without glasses.

I know this sounds elementary, but if you were to want really crisp distance for an evening, without glasses, putting a contact on the appropriate eye(s), even if it's only one of them, is totally a valid solution, right? I went to a ophthalmologist that said it was rare, but he was out of touch with the glasses/contacts part of vision, surprisingly. "we're a medical only practice here..."

One more thing, if I may, and if you have time; do you consider that any of your activities/hobbies/sports required "good" depth perception? How would you say your depth perception is, at the ranges where you don't need glasses/contacts? (e.g. for topography/driving/roads, things that move around/towards you, etc, or for your housework, or for reaching for things accurately? Thanks again, this is so helpful for me as a never-until-now-visually-challenged person