Cataract Blogging - before
No blogging today and probably nothing tomorrow either.
Jen and I drive down to Bellevue to
PCLI where my right eye will get the equivalent of an Alien Rectal Probe.
I spent a lot of time on the water in various kinds of boats and always eschewed sunglasses. I am now paying the price -- one major cataract in the right eye and one very minor one in the left. Doubling your dose of Ultra Violet Light is something that has payback -- not immediate but eventual.
Fortunately, the surgery is dead-simple these days. There is a technique that was initially developed about 20 years ago - they stick an ultrasound probe into your lens, emulsify it, hoover it out and stuff a plastic lens in its place. Office visit, insurance covers it and out the door I go. Looking forward to it.
My Mom and Dad are worried but that is because they remember their own friends having invasive surgery and having to lay in a hospital bed for weeks with their head between two sand bags.
I will be walking out of the clinic tomorrow an hour or so after the procedure, Jen will drive us home and I'll check into the local Eye Doctor the following Friday for a post-op check.
I'll be bringing a camera and if they allow photography, I'll ask someone to take a picture or two.
Posted by DaveH at April 14, 2005 12:07 AM