It has been ten days since my right eye was operated on and almost 25 days since my left eye was operated on. Without eyeglasses I see roughly as well as I did five years ago (without eyeglasses). I use off-the-shelf eyeglasses for the near-sighted I purchased from Amazon for walking around and watching television. Reading, either with or without eyeglasses, is a strain. Driving, with or without eyeglasses, would be dangerous.
My vision is not monotonically improving. Today, for example, my vision using eyeglasses is worse than my vision using eyeglasses was yesterday. I have hopes that the new prescription eyeglasses I will receive after I heal in two-three weeks will enable me to read, drive, and generally function.
I’m sorry for your struggles. It has to be frustrating not to be able to read easily. Here’s hoping for great vision once the healing process is complete.
I honestly didn’t realize it typically takes weeks to recover. The one benefit of having cataract surgery in my 40s, I guess, was that my vision was almost instantly better. I was able to read and drive the next day after both surgeries. (It also helped that those surgeries were a couple years apart.)