Cataract surgery-recent problems - Page 4

Effie54 · ‎09-08-2010

If the ophthalmologist would only tell you beforehand what to expect, then patients would know ahead of time. I'm putting mine off for as long as I can because I don't want anything to go wrong. Maybe it would be fine...or not. I would hate to have dry eye or complications. I feel the doctors seem to forget to tell you what might happen. I find that frustrating.

Shelbelle · ‎03-09-2010

I say take your chances, anything is better than feeling like you are blind , nothing is worse than that. I could not read my computer screen or even see to put on makeup, not to mention driving unsafely. I thought my house was clean, only to see later that it wasnt. And I now see all the wrinkles on my face a lot better too!!

Shelbelle · ‎03-09-2010

John,

People dont realize how poor their vision is with cataracts until they are removed!! Then a whole new world opens up. Dry eye is something we all can live with.

hckynutjohn · ‎06-15-2015

@Effie54 wrote:
If the ophthalmologist would only tell you beforehand what to expect, then patients would know ahead of time. I'm putting mine off for as long as I can because I don't want anything to go wrong. Maybe it would be fine...or not. I would hate to have dry eye or complications. I feel the doctors seem to forget to tell you what might happen. I find that frustrating.

@Effie54

Using your logic for other medical decisions! You want a doctor, that has not had a particular surgery, to tell you exactly what to expect, right?

"As long as I can", means? Till you are what?

"I don't want anything to go wrong"! Have you ever had any kind of surgery? If so, you have had to sign papers saying, you know the risks involved. Many of which include: "possible death".

Obviously a glass half empty type of statement. With my PE and Heart Attacks, I didn't want "anything to go wrong, BUT"! It may have, and it may not have!

A statement like "it might, it might not" actually makes sense to some people, I don't happen to be 1 of them.

I get in 1 of our vehicles. I might or might not make it to my destination. BUT! Guess that makes sense in some people's real world, but again, not mine.

With your type of logic? It is illogical! Using your logic, means that those that choose "to get things done, want things to go wrong". If that makes sense to you, I got it!

hckynut(john)🥅🏒 🇺🇸