> That surgery is looking better all the time. Even if I have to
> wear glasses
> to read, it would be wonderful to have far and mid range with just my
> eyes. And it would be great with binoculars, too.
>

I had the surgery in mid-May. My eyes were unbelievably bad, w/extreme
nearsightedness and astigmatism. The surgery unfortunately did not correct
me to 20/20, and my eyesight has deteriorated in the six months since
surgery. I'm not sorry I had it by any means - it's great to be able to
read a shampoo bottle in the shower, wander around home, and not be totally,
literally incapacitated w/o glasses. But I'm back to glasses at work and
for distance (I read fine w/o). Birding w/o glasses would've been a
problem - you need to be able to see detail in addition to movement, and IMO
if your eyes aren't 20/20 you'd want glasses.

As for the Varilux-style lenses, I got a pair a week ago. Am replacing
them w/the lined style bifocals as soon as they come in from the lab. I do
a lot of reading and computer work on my job, and the Varilux lenses didn't
give me a wide-enough reading area. I've been doing a lot of side-to-side
head-moving w/these no-line lenses and it's driving me nuts. Ugh.

Never had a problem w/binocs or scope w/lined bifocals, fortunately. I
guess we're all different, eh?

Cheers,

Mary Klein
Seattle WA
BassClef at seanet.com