The cataract removal #1 is complete. Y'ALL. I can see colors! Leaves! Textures! I even reduced the font on my computer screen to a nice 12 point!
It was a strange experience. They gave me the "I don't care drugs", but they failed to give me quite enough because for quite some time I did care. And hear. And see. The seeing was mostly lots of pretty colors and swirls and rainbows. The hearing was weird. I heard, "You have a really deep [somethingorother] canal in your eye." and "Hey Dr. SoAndSo, give her some more [fancy drug name]" and then.....
I woke up being wheeled to my dad's car. Hee. I guess I needed some more drugs. The rest of today has been flashy and sparkly. I looked in the mirror once, dripping in eye drops, and saw my own eye sparking and lighting up. Um, WHAT? I ran to the family room and made my mom stare into my eye. She saw it too. This is one weird procedure. Turns out that since my eye is still so dilated you can actually see the shiny new lens in there. Weirdness.
When I ran that by my doctor, who called me to check on me - nice, right? - he chuckled and said that while yes, that was true and normal, he'd never had a patient notice it before. He complimented my youthful observant nature. He seems to really get a charge out of my age. It's making me feel quite young and spry. I wonder I was also the first patient to ask him if I could drink a beer.
So....that's all I have to report. For the first time since about the second grade, I can see without a contact or glasses in my left eye. It's extremely bizarre to go from a -8.50 to fully sighted. My brain is so confused. Now I'm in a little pickle with my glasses, as I can't see out of the left side unless I pop out the lens. I think a trip to Lenscrafters might be on the agenda tomorrow!
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I'm so glad that it went well!
You should look into whether or not Lenscrafters will make you a fashionable monocle. :)
YAY!!! So glad it went well. I was thinking of you all day today. And I second the monocle idea!!
So wait, you're still blind out of your right eye? Do you get matching surgery eventually?
Yeah, what AMP said....are they doing the right eye later?
Did you ever get an explanation as to why/how this could have happened?
But, I'm SO glad it went well and you can see! How strange to actually 'see' the new lens in there!
Now I'm waiting for a post about how your boys are reacting to all this. :)
So glad to hear things went well!
Also, happy birthday! :-D
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