Fun Fact: I started wearing glasses at around 15 years old. I'm 56 now, so that's 41 years.
My eyes were terrible - much older than me. I had cataracts in each eye. It had finally gotten so bad that the eye doc was unable to correct my vision to 20/20.
I had surgery in each eye last June and I can see better than 20/20 now! No more glasses. Lots of sunglasses and 'readers' to see stuff up close. But, it is life changing to be without them. I was, by far, the youngest person in there for cataracts surgery
Some things that still really mess with my head; getting in the shower and being able to see, walking in the rain without seeing spots, I keep trying to take my glasses off when I go to sleep & I expect the clock to be blurry when I open my eyes to look at it in the mornings.
Just renewed my driver's license and had them remove the phrase "must wear corrective lenses"
I can see