Wellness

[Jordan2]

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@Mmsfoxxie wrote:

@Jordan2, I always called them stars but halo is more accurate.  I'm used to eye drops since I have glaucoma.  My ophthalmologist said it would take 20 to 30 minutes.  

So that's a lot of driving for the person that drives you which means distance from home to hospital can't be across town.

Thank you, @Jordan2.  Very helpful info.

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@Mmsfoxxie your welcome. Hopefully it won't always be the case that no one else can enter the facility. I forgot to mention, I wear a plastic patch over my eye when I sleep ( it won't be forever) if your a restless sleeper or if you're smushing your eye in the pillow, this will protect your eye.

[Jordan2]

So I had cataract surgery three weeks ago come Wednesday. I had my right eye done, I had the left eye done four years ago. The doctor that did the left eye isn't the same doctor who just did the right one. The left eye was easy, no problems, was okay the next day. The right eye almost three weeks later, my eyesight is still a little blurry. I am starting to get concerned that something went wrong with the surgery. I will see the doctor on July 17, he keeps saying I'm doing well but I'm starting to think I'm not. Oh, I had something I wanted to add ( this could only happen to me). During the surgery, I heard the doctor say ( yes you are awake), my contact just came out, this has never happened to me before! He then leaves me, has to go to his car to get his contacts ( while I am laying there), tells a nurse (I presume) to keep irrigating my eye! Now I don't know if any of this has anything to do with my surgery, but you have to wonder.

[marky]

I had surgery for a detached retina last December.  I am now in need of cataract surgery but my surgeon keeps having to postpone my follow up appointment.  He has checked my eye only twice since the surgery.....once the day after and then one month after.  I was supposed to have seen him in March but each appointment keeps getting cancelled.  I am now supposed to see him on July 14.  I hope they don't cancel again.  He told me back in January that the cataract was growing rapidly and that he would schedule my surgery when he saw me in March.  Of course, that didn't happen.  If I do see him next week and he thinks I need the surgery soon, I will have to have the Covid-19 test.  

[Jordan2]

So, its been about two months since my cataract surgery. I had surgery in my left eye four years ago, it was an easy procedure, I was back to normal the next day. The doctor left me slightly far sighted in the eye ( I am near sighted). Flash forward four years later I needed cataract surgery in my right eye. I had different insurance so I had a different doctor ( this is a factory the other doctor has a private practice). I didn't have many options so I settled on this doctor. I had the surgery and for weeks later my eye sight was blurry. The doctor left me near sighted in my right eye, I can read without glasses, however if I cover my left eye and look around the room, it's fuzzy. I'm not happy being far sighted in one eye and near sighted in the other. Nothing can be done at this point, I just have to live with it.

[hckynut]

@Jordan2 

I am sorry to hear your more recent surgery left you with this issue. If it were me, some doctor would be hearing a lot from me, and in as many ways as possible. Wonder how many others ended up the same way.

Myself, even though there is nothing that can be done to change what was done to me? I would make it as public as possible about what happened to me. 

I realize mistakes can and are made in any profession. I also am one, that if possible, makes others aware of the "who". Even if it might keep only 1 more person left the same way you describe.

Eyesight is precious, moreso as we age and our independence my rely on it.

hckynut 🏒

[Jordan2]

I had my two month follow appointment today. Just let me get this out of the way, I had a 9:30 appointment, I waited for the doctor over an hour and he spends five minutes with me. Anyway I had cataract surgery done four years ago which left me farsighted (I have always been nearsighted) in my left eye. The doctor did my right eye leaving me nearsighted in my right eye. I asked him if he intentionally did it this way, he said yes he wanted to give me a chance to not rely on my glasses so much. I think I would rather he had made me farsighted in my right eye he same as the left. I graduated to a yearly exam.

[Growing]

It's called mono vision and I have this naturally. It's both a blessing and a curse. I can't wear drugstore readers, have to have prescription cause each eye is different. If the doctor was going to do this to me, I'd want to know in advance and have a choice. I tried wearing different contact lenses once but my eyes hated the plastic. I am used to this for my distance vision but not for my up close or reading vision. We have those meat market eye surgery places here, too. It's a big business.