Cataracts

Post by **Dale** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 8:16 pm

Got 'em. Surgery on the left eye scheduled for this Tuesday. No big deal, from what I'm told. (Somebody tell me it's no big deal.)

chas · Post by **chas** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 8:28 pm

Many of my loved ones have had the surgery and none have complained and all have been thankful for it. Both parents, mother in law, brother's wife, boss's wife. . .

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 10:02 pm

I've had both eyes done. Took about 40 minutes each time.

No suffering, no discomfort, no big deal.

It's good to be able to see again.

You'll love it.!

brianholton · Post by **brianholton** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 11:42 pm

A Warning: my stepfather was a dyer, and one with exceptional colour discrimination. He also did his own painting and decorating.
After he had the operation on his cataracts, he had to repaint the whole house, as very few of the colours he had chosen worked for him when he could see again.....

Good luck!

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 4:13 am

My Mother had it done. It worked for her.

dwest · Post by **dwest** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:42 am

It is a big deal. Being able to see well again is always nice. What type of implant? Mono or multi? Surgery's a cake walk.

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 8:33 am

We do a lot of them in our hospital OR, and it really is no big deal (apart from the usual caveat that any surgery can have undesired results, which are exceedingly rare).
Back in my podiatry days I had tons of patient's who had cataract surgery. Typically, they'd hem and haw about having the first eye done and then once they did it they couldn't wait to have the second one fixed. Good luck.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:03 am

brewerpaul wrote:Typically, they'd hem and haw about having the first eye done and then once they did it they couldn't wait to have the second one fixed.

yep, dat's da way ya do it

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 8:50 pm

Cataracts run in my family. Isn't modern medicine wonderful? Born 50 earlier, like my eldest aunt, and you'd be destined to a life a blindness. She was too busy enjoying life and cussin' at people to notice though. She couldn't start a sentence without Chrissakes.

Good Luck.

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:42 am

I had my left eye done in 2008. The right also has a cataract but is not bad enough for surgery yet.

My surgery was quick, recovery was easy. Be sure to use the eye drops religiously as instructed.

Everything had a red-tinged hue to it for a few days after. They said that it would go away after my brain got used to the new lens. It did.

My new lens eye was very susceptible to bright light for a long time, and very bright light gave me headaches. This has mellowed considerably over time.

When I first got the new lens, I could notice flashes of light/reflections from the lens out of the corner of my eye. I notice these a lot less these days.

I see better now (20/60 without glasses) in that eye than I've ever seen out of it in my entire life (20/200 historically).

I've started to get some scar tissue haze from the surgery, which a YAG laser follow up is supposed to fix, but it doesn't bother me enough yet to go get it taken care of.

s1m0n · Post by **s1m0n** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:43 pm

I've no idea regarding the size of the deal, but best of luck anyway!

dwest · Post by **dwest** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:08 pm

mutepointe wrote:Cataracts run in my family.

In our family we run cataracts, 'course we get 'em too.

Post by **Dale** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:14 pm

Home from surgery. All went well. I was at risk for some particular complications during surgery, but all went just fine.

If you're not squeamish, here's the video of the actual surgery on my actual undisputed eye.

https://sites.google.com/site/dalewisely/cataract

Dale

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 10:01 pm

ya don't get that kind of entertainment value just anywhere on the web

s1m0n · Post by **s1m0n** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 10:51 pm

Dale wrote: If you're not squeamish, here's the video of the actual surgery on my actual undisputed eye.

You're an evil man, Dale Wisely!

But I'm glad it went well anyway.

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