Cataracts

[Innocent Bystander]

Eeeep!

[mutepointe]

[Nanohedron]

...here's the video of the actual surgery on my actual undisputed eye.

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

Dale

It needs a soundtrack.

[kkrell]

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

I'm half-Squeamish, on my mother's side.

[dwest]

My mother had her last cataract removed a year ago, even with her macular degeneration her vision in that eye is now 20/40 which isn't bad at 96 yrs old. She does have to get an injection in each eye every few months to slow down the macular degeneration, that's never a pleasant idea but it has never hurt either.

[MTGuru]

I'm half-Squeamish, on my mother's side.

But are you from Squamish?

[I.D.10-t]

Sounds like the beginning of a limerick

A squeamish young man from Squamish...

[dwest]

Sounds like the beginning of a limerick

A squeamish young man from Squamish...

caught a big flatfish....

[mutepointe]

How are those eyes working for you now?

[Dale]

Thanks for asking. I'm most happy with my crystal-clear new acrylic lens implant. It's providing very good distance vision and, as people often say, I quickly learned how much my vision had grown a bit murky and yellowish. Colors are indeed brighter for me than they've been in some time.

The issue now is I have a bright and sharp vision in my left eye and murky vision in my right. But, the cataract isn't ripe enough to qualify for surgery yet. So, without my glasses, I have great vision on the left and poor vision on the right. If I put my glasses on, my right eye is corrected considerably, of course, but my left eye vision is blurry because of the unneeded eyeglass lens. (And, yes, I know I could remove the left lens.) In 2 weeks, i get fitted for new glasses, which should give me some balance. Then, when I eventually get the right eye done, I'll likely be able to get by with reading glasses only.

Dale

[fearfaoin]

The issue now is I have a bright and sharp vision in my left eye and murky vision in my right. But, the cataract isn't ripe enough to qualify for surgery yet. So, without my glasses, I have great vision on the left and poor vision on the right.

Well, I think we all know the answer to that:



Yarrrr.

[mutepointe]

Epically Badass. Literally.

[MTGuru]

Yarrrr.

That should be: Yarrrr, y'all.

[burnsbyrne]

I'll be having this done in the next year or two. I watched a cataract surgery thirty years ago when I was in nursing school and it was much more invasive and traumatic than your video, Dale, because the lenses they used then were rigid and required a larger incision and more sutures. My wife had both eyes done last year and she's very happy she did.