My wife (72) just had her 2nd cataract IOL this last week. The first was 3 weeks ago.

We chose the Technics multi-focal "progressive" type lens (another is the Restor).

They ARE expensive - $1,500 above the cost of the regular single strength.

She has not worn them long enough to know if she is satisfied. However, she could read the print on a book, etc., without any glasses - no more "Do you know where my reading glasses are?"

At the rate she goes through reading glasses - I figure that, over 10 years, I made out like a bandit $$ wise, even with the $1,500 per eye. I get a pair of Rx glasses every few years, and NEVER lose or misplace them. She has reading glasses all over the place, and they break and she loses them regularly!!

I have a cataract in my left eye which is growing, and likely this year I will need it fixed?? I have an appt in June with the opthalmologist for a cataract workup.

Interestingly, last Wed, when we were prepping for the operation in the day surgery place, we were told that her lens had NOT arrived yet, it was still in shipment. She had the IV in and everything. Someone at the factory had made an error in not marking the shipment to expedite delivery. It was like an Abbott and Costello movie as they could track the delivery truck - it was in Commerce City, now it was somewhere else, etc.

Finally the Technics rep met the truck somewhere and brought the lens to the hospital. They did give us a $500 discount for our 5 hour wait!!