HUNTER 63 - Cataract Surgery

[hunter63]

Thanks,...Appreciate that...Thanks to all for the good wishes.
Left eye didn't need it...I guess ...Yet....But the right eye came on FAST.

Still trying for figure out if I should wear glasses or not.....Guess that a good....??? LOL

[WolfVanZandt]

They mentioned a few alternatives for me - contacts, Lasix, that near-far implant thing - but I've worn glasses all my life so it was the one thing I wouldn't have to adapt to.

I have the sand-in-my-eyes feeling - I thought it was just Colorado.

I also have dry eyes so I'll be taking a long train ride down the Centennial Friday to have a specialist look at that. If I decide to have that procedure done, it'll be $$$. But, since there's no danger of my going blind from it, I may forego.

[hunter63]

Hey, good luck, hope they can come up with a solution for you.

This eye thing, is a scary.

[kyratshooter]

Thoughts and prayers for those that have had it and about to get it. For me - so far - no onset of cataracts. I've decided to put it off as long as possible.

For those of you in this shape I recommend that you do put it off as long as possible, but not because it is a bad or difficult thing.

The reason is that eye procedures are advancing every day and the next little invention in the line up of improvements might just make the simple procedure of today even more simple and more safe.

My Eye Dr. spotted my cataract beginning back in 1990. He told me to wait until I absolutely had to get the work done because he knew there were new procedures that would be approved within the next couple of years.

By the time I had to have the eye worked on 20 years had passed and he had done more than 4,000 successful procedures using the current technology.

I am in the situation where there is a coating of "haze" beginning to cover my cornea implant. I thought I would need another procedure to replace it but the DR. told me they are using the Lasic equipment to "scrub" that from the back of the lens.

I asked why they were not using that process to treat the original cataract and I was told it was in the process of approval.

That means that when the FDA gets off their butts and approves a procedure that is already in use and known to be safe, then cataract surgery will be completely noninvasive and no more difficult than any other Lazic procedure.

[hunter63]

Had my check up this morning...everything seems to be progressing well.
Left eye has started as well.....
Soooooo
Making arrangements to have the other one done on the 28th.....

[kyratshooter]

I was at the bank today, standing in line, noticed the guy in front of me had a cause patch on his eye.

This is KY so a little friendly nosiness is tolerated so I just asked if he had cataract surgery. He replied no but that the lining of his eyeball had begun separating and they had to go in and do an emergency repair to same the sight in the eye.

We started comparing notes on eye procedures and the bank girl started squirming and making noises and screwing up her face and I thought she was going to pass out. The guy I was talking too was joking with her and told her when she got as old as we were it would happen to her too!

I told her not to worry. She is still in her twenties and by the time she starts having problems the procedure will be done by vending machines. Swipe your credit card, look down the binocular eyepieces, hold still for 15 seconds and it will be over.

[Rick]

I hope I'm gone by then. You should have seen me trying to use the chip enabled card the first time. I almost had the reader apart by the time the manager arrived. Two more screws and I would have been there.

[WolfVanZandt]

One of my favorite reads is The Education of Henry Adams. It makes me feel less culture shocked. The man was a staff member for Abraham Lincoln and he lived to see the advent of quantum physics. They should get Richard Thomas and Anthony Hopkins to do that into a movie. Oops, Bad idea. Richard Thomas can no longer do a young Henry Adams.

[Seniorman]

I had my right eye cataract surgery Tuesday morning. No complications and the doc was very satisfied Wed. morning for the post-op examination. No pain, no side effects, etc. Have to sleep with a plastic shield over my right eye. I can discontinue that Tuesday, Feb. 7. Lots of eye drops through the day: six times with one drug, four times with another. This continues for 28 days but tapers off number of times per day as the weeks go on. The heavy duty dilation they use lasts for about three days so still have a bit of dilation. I have another post-post op examination Tuesday, Feb. 7, at which time we will discuss new reading glasses and also when the cataract in my left eye will be done.

So far, so good.

Best wishes to all who have to have cataract surgery.

S.M.

[hunter63]

Glad everything went well.....you are going to enjoy seeing again.
Going to have the left eye done as well.

Had to stop in this morning for a "glare Test"....seems the eye sight isn't bad enough , on the border... for paid for surgery in the left eye.

After the test....The glare is real bad ....Doc decided there will be the surgery on the 28th...lights at night really drive me crazy......

[WolfVanZandt]

That's the great part. After I got through with it all, I was standing on my front porch where I had been living for a couple of years and I looked out and said, "Did you know we can see Red Rocks from here?!"

[Old GI]

A couple months ago, the VA eye doc told me I have onset and I will need surgery "at some time". Don't know if it"s power of suggestion, but my eyes go in and out of focus on the computer (about all I do anymore). In my early 40s, just before retiring from the Army, I got my first reading glasses and at that time I realized I was picking books based on size of print.

[Rick]

Large print books are good. Now, if they would print the instructions on medicine boxes that large I'd by in like Flynn. Of course the box would have to be the size of a refrigerator. Still.....

[hunter63]

Got back to doing my cardio therapy this morning....
Gout had me down for a while (much better)...then the eye surgery had limited the bending and lifting a bit....restrictions eased up after Wed. appointment.

So drove my self...still kind of weird....right eye doesn't need glasses any more for distance...or at least is much clearer.
But left eye does...yet......
Found my self driving looking over the glasses.

Hope everything evens out after the other eye.....
I would recommend to anyone if needed....the wait and see is valid and does make a difference if insurance pays and how much...
Mine went fast....June to December.....