Posting may be a little less frequent over the next several weeks than I have expected of myself. Over the last 22 years I have written more than 22,000 posts. That’s more than 1,000 posts per year, nearly three posts a day for 22 years.
Tomorrow I’m getting cataract surgery on my left eye and, honestly, I’m apprehensive about it. I realize that’s irrational but I grew up with the knowledge that my dad’s grandfather had been blinded by a botched cataract surgery. That was more than a century ago and an enormous amount has changed over the last century—that’s why it’s irrational of me.
Whatever the outcome I probably won’t feel like posting tomorrow and I suspect I won’t be able to see well enough to post. The reason for that is, well, I wear glasses and the operation will in all likelihood change my prescription. The present plan is one eye tomorrow and the other in two weeks. That suggests that for the next month things will be, shall we say, in flux.
Good luck! You should be good in a month but for lots of people the blurriness is gone in a few days, especially if you are getting a monofocal lens. It’s much faster and lot less pain. When I was in med school there were still people doing cataracts that had their pt stay in the hospital several days after the surgery. Also, they used to wait until you were almost blind before doing the surgery pretty much up until 60s because the risk of failure or blinding some was high.
Steve
What about the third eye? Sorry.
Best of luck. I opted for lens replacement surgery years ago. (Went in for Lasic, but nacient cataracts). No glasses needed since. 20-20. Just a couple days until I was seeing just fine. The spookiest thing was when they took the old lens out and I was absolutely blind). I’m sure you will do just fine. But surgery tends to focus the mind. Always a small complications rate.
I’m 4 for 4 on successful surgeries. Lenses, cervical fusions, ulnar nerve transposition and TAVR. Watchman coming up in a week. Hopefully can take a rest after that.
My experience tends to be the opposite. I keep hearing the words you do not want to hear from healthcare professionals: “That’s not supposed to happen.”
My most recent surgery was 30 years ago. It was supposed to be a minor inpatient procedure. It turned into major surgery. What are called “idiosyncratic or perverse reactions” to medications are a familial characteristic.