We’re going to remove the hardened, cloudy lenses from your eyes by breaking them up with an ultrasound device, and then sucking the particles out. We will then insert a flexible silicone based lens. Over the next eight weeks, we will use a special ultraviolet light device to change the shape of the lenses to give you the desired vision. For those eight weeks, it will be necessary for you to wear special UV protection goggles anytime that you are not in bed asleep. After the three adjustments are complete, will use the ultraviolet light device to lock in the shape of the lenses. 24 hours later, you can dispense with the UV goggles.

Gotta say it. Been a long eight weeks. It doesn’t appear that we achieved the glasses-free outcome we were shooting for, we got close. I uploaded my new prescription and the one from a year ago to Perplexity:

Your 2026 glasses prescription is dramatically lower power than your 2025 prescription, reflecting how the LAL+ has moved most of the focusing work into the lens implants instead of the spectacles. In 2025 you needed full‑time distance correction plus a significant bifocal/progressive add just to get comfortable reading. With the LAL+ lock‑ins, your intraocular lenses now provide most of the distance focus, so the new glasses are more like fine‑tuning for small residual refractive error and astigmatism rather than heavy lifting.

Pre-surgery I was using 3.5 (prescription) reading glasses for books, phone and laptop. Post-surgery I can see the computer and phone fine and making do with 1.5 readers for books. Jury still out on the all-important distance acuity. Hoping the new prescription (see above) will give me the sharpness and clarity I was hoping for.

About the photo above… For the last two months I had to wear special UV glasses whenever awake. Today at one o’clock I can ditch them. New glasses will arrive in ten days.