Just had my cataract surgery on Monday and saw the doctor on Tuesday and back into surgery for another stitch and another visit to the doctor on Wednesday . got to go back Monday for another appointment and then finished for three weeks and they might start the other eye. The doctor gave me the cataract he took out and it is hard to believe I put up with this for that long. Here was the cataract.
I still had what I thought was a good eye but now I can see the difference. I look up at the kitchen light if I cover one eye the light is a cream and the new eye after surgery it is white. So I still have one to go yet.
Miraculous, isn't it? For all the [often justified] bashing we engage in on the medical community, we have this available to us. Almost every one of us has this. And it's routine & commonplace.
The difference I experienced was a clean bright white compared to a brown haze and on both eyes. I even had a follow-up laser on both eyes two years later. My only problem now is glaucoma in one eye. For several hours after my cataract surgery, everything was at a slant. Glad you are getting this done. The amazing thing for me was, all the preparation took a couple of hours, but the surgery lasted 5 minutes.
I know the surgery only took a few minutes but they were the longest few minutes I have had for a long time