I consider the cataract surgery to be one of the greatest gifts of my lifetime. I was functionally blind in one eye when they did my first surgery when I was 41. It was like trying to look through a shot glass that had been smeared with Vaseline jelly. The military did it for me (I was active duty). I woke up with 20/28 vision in an eye that could really only see movement and whether it was day or night.
I wore a contact lens in my non-surgery eye secretly praying for a cataract in my left eye that was still 20/400. 20 years later I got my wish and they removed the cataract in my left eye. Because I served 23 years in the army on active duty, the military again came through and did the surgery. I am 73 years old now and only use the drug store readers for when I have to read labels on things.
I don't know your financial status, but I am beyond grateful for my vision every day. I can still drive at night, I can read a paper back book even without readers. I see the world.
I would say do what you can to get things to be a good as you can.
Best of luck to you.
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