Variation on...... cataracts and flying pattern...new question

[Jim Ivey]

 Ken
 The first of this year I also went for a Dr's visit for updating prescription glasses. I got the exam and they ordered the lenses. They did not work because the exam did not reflect the way I need to see at a distance. The Dr couldn't understand that his machine was wrong. I brought the Dr to his front window and told him I wanted the see the small limbs on the tree about 150yds away. He then put his compensating lenses in front of my eyes until I picked out the best ones that I could see the distance with.Actually one eye is nearsighted and the other is farsighted. He was hesitant to and still didn't understand why his diagnosis was not correct. They made the lenses to this order and I can see the writing on the plane at 150 meters now. I then got a prescription for this measurement for my NYC sun glasses. I'm in business now and do not know what my eyes measure and don't care. I can see at the distance.> 

Jim Ivey
> From: Ken Blackwell <kblackw at adelphia.net>
> Date: 2005/06/18 Sat PM 09:30:57 EDT
> To: discussion at nsrca.org
> Subject: Variation on...... cataracts and flying pattern...new question
> 
> Recently, I had my glasses updated, (Age 67, trifocals) and my medium 
> distance and close up vision is 20-15....according to the Dr.'s eye 
> chart. However, when I look off at a distance like flying, the glasses 
> do not sharply focus. In fact, I can see better without them. My problem 
> is that I wanted to get my sunglasses updated....but the prescription 
> doesn't work for distance and in fact my old prescription works better 
> at a distance than the new one. BUT the old prescription doesn't do an 
> adequate job at short to medium distances.
> 
> Has anyone ever heard of this problem...solution....and maybe an 
> Internet med reference?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ken Blackwell
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