I had LASIK surgery done 8 years ago and am so glad I did it.
My eyesight was off the chart - I couldn't see the numbers on the alarm
clock until I groped around and found my glasses. I couldn't drive even in the
daytime without them and had worn hard contacts for 27 years before I had the
surgery.
I had used mono-vision contacts before the surgery - one contact corrects
near-sightedness and one correct farsightedness - and the did the same in my
LASIK.
One eye is corrected for near vision, the other for far vision. I can
read small print - I can even read the stock quotes in my paper and that type
is small.