Thank you, P2L, for your reply. Honestly, my ophthalmologist never uses the same terminology as is evidently used by others on this forum. So it's only from context that I understand "early intermediate AMD" and "AREDS". They've pointed out to me the trouble spots on my retinal photographs; and recommended Ocuvite vitamin supplements (identical generics are acceptable, and lucky for me, I tolerate them just fine); and told me that continual monitoring is the best practice for now. The same as what my father's ophthalmologists told him... before he advanced to wet, and those needles-into-his-eyeballs! (They looked worse than they evidently were. To an observer, they were horrible!) And they never report my refraction results as 20/xxx. My results are always reported in corrections. (My last two ophthalmologists also do optometrics. Both services in one visit. )
More explicitly:
R sphere +2.50 cylinder -0.50 axis 105 and add 2.75
L +2.75 -0.75 080 2.75
and the results end up being something like 20/20 vision (my guess), with retinas that require regular monitoring (approximately annually). I'll have to ask for the other data next time I go for that annual exam. So one of the benefits to me of this forum is becoming acquainted with retinopathy terms that most people never even hear, let alone use. But since my eyes are deteriorating at a very slow pace, just corrective lenses have been sufficient for me up til now. I'm trying to be proactive, in case there's something that I SHOULD be doing NOW to prevent my following my father's journey into blindness. It's good to know that that's no longer the usual outcome. Unfortunately, my mother followed that same journey, but had other health issues to compound it; and she died essentially blind. It sounds like what I'm doing already is what I SHOULD be doing to avoid the blindness outcome. So that's a relief! Thanks again for your information and help.