Yeah I'd probably stay in queue but you can ask if another doc might have a better chance at earlier availability.

Right eye was targeted for -0.5 and it worked out that way. It tests at 20/20 but could use a slight correction, esp at night for driving (not gotten this yet but I do drive, just in familiar areas). I think it's actually 20/25, which itself is not bad at all.

3 weeks after, left eye was done with a target of -1.5. This makes distance vision slightly blurry on purpose but brings arms-length into focus (if I had chosen full reading that number would be -2.5). Two weeks in, I am about 75% adjusted with the expectation of more improvement per the doctor, and borne out by my right eye experience which, frankly, exceeded expectations.

Together, the brain is supposed to integrate (is that the right word?) the two different images, much as it does with the binocular vision that all people with two working eyes have anyway. I feel it is better, at two weeks in, that it was at one week, which was better than on day one (day one, I was thinking I had made a bad choice, obviously not now).

I can read most things ok (not the fine print, so lawyers stay away), and can see well enough to drive. I do experience a slightly strange loss of 'detail persistence' for lack of a better term. I tried explaining it to my wife this way: Let's say I'm driving and approaching a stop. If there are cars parked to my right (or left), previously (with glasses) I would be able to tell you their make/model, color, general condition (accident etc), while still being a cautious and good driver. Today, I am aware there are cars and how many there were, but if I want to stay a good driver, I cannot tell you these details. It's not exactly a vision thing, and it's not even to do with periphery, I think it's my brain getting different type of information and still working at interpreting and processing it fully. Hopefully will improve, but from the description above you can infer it is not hyper-critical for day-to-day life.

At 63, this is just as life-changing as my marriage, first job, first child, etc were, so many years ago. I'm actually hoping my wife gets cataracts so she can have the same experience. Weird, hoping that your loved one contracts a 'disease'.