Can you please tell me how soon you can be examined for a new eyeglass prescription.
I think the usual recommendation is to wait about a month for the eyes to 'settle down' after surgery.
Wife and I have both been through the process for both eyes. Wife has significant astigmatism, and her implants weren't able to do all of the correction she requires.
I chose to have my implants calibrated for distance vision, so the only correction that I needed after the surgery was for reading. I had to wait about a month after the first surgery before I got my prescription. When I had the second surgery seven years later, my doctor (different from the first surgery) suggested not going with bespoke prescriptions but instead sent me to the drugstore for readers, and that's what I did for the first couple of years.
Neither wife or I had any complications from the cataract surgery. However, I had an unrelated retina detachment two years after the first surgery, and in the course of correcting that problem, the implant was removed. I was initially given a contact lens as a replacement. The rationale was that while the contact lens wouldn't enable me use the damaged eye for reading, it would give me the ability to 'walk around without bumping into walls', and if anything should ever happen to my good eye, that would become very important.
So while I only have vision in one eye, I can still do pretty much anything I want to do - I do have to be careful when filling a fountain pen or pouring a glass of wine, and I need a lot of light when I'm doing close work including turning. But a few months ago, my contact lens doctor recommended that get regular prescription glasses. His reasoning is that is would be better to concentrate on protecting the vision in my good eye rather than worrying about what I would do if something went wrong with that eye. He pointed out that many people who aren't wearing glasses experience serious eye damage from automobile air bag deployment.
It's all in the category of 'getting older isn't for sissies'.