In a passing conversation I told my son I was getting tired of reading glasses and am thinking about getting the Laser eye surgery. Turned & told me “No way Dad!” “That’s too much money!”

Surprised that he felt that strongly about me considering it I thought he was concerned about my wellbeing so I tried to reassure him that it was a safe procedure and is almost as routen as having a hang nail removed.

He turned to me and said rather deadpan-ish “Dad, I know all that” as he rolled his eyes then followed with – “its just very expensive & wouldn’t you rather have that Super Charger you keep talking about?”……

Thats my boy! Thinking bout the health of my right foot over being able to read a book without reading glasses...

 

Well... I think he's right. Not because I think a supercharger is THAT important. But using LASIK on someone who has perfect long range vision to avoid the need for reading glasses does not make sense to me.

Your need for reading glasses is because over time your lens becomes less elastic and therefore has a lesser focusing range (babys can focus on a few inches before their eyes, and with age it goes downhill from there). LASIK changes the overall optics of the eye - I can't see how they would do this without negtively affecting long range vision.

So, my take is: Live with the reading glasses. And if you want to get that supercharger, go for it!

 

..........and he is how old?

Must take after the old man eh?

 

The boy is 17 and the truth is he's been eyeball'in the Ol'Shark from day one.

But yea Nicole I can live with it for now. I was mearly mentioning that I was considering it at some point down the road.

 

I understood. I just wanted to express that I would hate to see you fix one problem by creating another one that is potentially more bothersome than the one you started out with...

 

I figured there’d be a trade off of some sort. Loss of my long range vision wouldn’t be a pleasant consideration for me as I still enjoy the fact that I have "perfect" vision beyond the length of my arms.

 

Oh... crap! That made me laugh! That kid's a keeper!

 

My son is 13 this year.............he's already asked for the keys.

 

That's what my ophthalmologist said after my LASIK surgery and I went in for my first chart test, "We can fix mother nature but we can't fix old age." He said I'll need varying degrees of reading glasses from now on...

Oh, and I passed the eye exam - 25/20.

 

When I had my LASIK done many years ago there was an older woman who had one eye corrected for long range vision, and the other for reading. The doctor had told her she could just switch between the eyes depending on what she would do... I thought that was ridiculous, and wonder, how that affected her in the long run. Did she need more correction for reading over time, as she aged, losing more ability to see long range? I don't know, but I would not do it for myself ever.