<![CDATA[Get your eyes checked!!!]]>Yesterday I had cataract surgery. The surgeon told me on my first visit not to opt for the extra cost lenses because the cataracts were so bad and the eye had been so severely injured when I was a teen that it might take more than one surgery to get it right. She also said I could lose my vision.
My vision was 20-30 in March of last year, the optometrist told me to get the cataracts removed when I returned to Tucson. but the cataracts grew quickly.
Today I see a retina specialist, hopefully he will schedule me for further surgery to correct the current mess. My right eye can now only see light and some movement.
I asked the anaesthesiologist to put me out so that I would not know what was going on. He said he could not do that. I was aware of what was going on and could hear speech, but not what was being said. I consider that to be something worthy of Stephan King or, better, Edgar Allan Poe.
On the drive home, Bob had to stop so I could throw up three times. I could not walk a straight line. I was nauseous and could not keep anything down.
I took three melatonin and an ondansetron. Have started eating small bits this morning.

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/topic/1142/get-your-eyes-checkedRSS for NodeTue, 11 Aug 2026 18:15:59 GMTWed, 15 Jan 2025 17:47:52 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Wed, 03 Dec 2025 01:12:24 GMT]]>Good gracious, Chas! I'm so sorry you've been through all of this. It sounds like you have good doctors, so I hope things go better from here on out.

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/19688https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/19688Wed, 03 Dec 2025 01:12:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:16:52 GMT]]>@RealPlayer That’s interesting that she would know the difference. I found that the color change was so gradual, I had no idea that they were wrong. Until I had the first cataract surgery and could compare between the two eyes.

Also, did you know that you can get secondary cataracts? It’s a cataract of the lens capsule that holds the lens. Earlier this year I noticed that my vision was hazy, and it quickly got worse. A quick YAG laser zap fixed it for me last month. Whew!

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/19683https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/19683Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:16:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:31:54 GMT]]>@RealPlayer Some of my clothes changed colors ??

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/19674https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/19674Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:31:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:59:39 GMT]]>Wow. Sounds rough.

Hope everything resolves quickly!

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/19665https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/19665Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:59:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Tue, 02 Dec 2025 03:17:48 GMT]]>I met an artist, Dorothea Tanning. She was a famous Surrealist. Cataracts drove her crazy because the colors were all wrong.

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/19653https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/19653Tue, 02 Dec 2025 03:17:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Tue, 02 Dec 2025 03:13:34 GMT]]>Hugs, @chas .

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/19652https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/19652Tue, 02 Dec 2025 03:13:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:17:34 GMT]]>@AdagioM Thank you.

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/19648https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/19648Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:17:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:14:06 GMT]]>@chas You’ve been through a lot with your eyes! I hope you get a lens in there soon.

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/19645https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/19645Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:14:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:34:31 GMT]]>Thank you, SK.
Spent January to June of this year with no lens in my right eye. I could see things across the room if I resolve them with a magnifying glass. Before the current techniques were developed cataract surgery removed the entire lens in one piece like what I got today, then coke bottle like glasses were used. I drove and did some mountain biking with no lens in my right eye. The doc told me I could. I found driving with one lens was a stupid thing to do and quit.
I poked the right lens out of some Walgreen's reader glasses and read with my left eye and the remaining lens.

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/19642https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/19642Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:34:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:13:32 GMT]]>@CHAS Oh dear! Does that mean you can't see out of the eye that's missing the lens?

Hopefully they will be able to resolve this for you quickly!!

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/19640https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/19640Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:13:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:24:47 GMT]]>About a month ago the doc that did the first surgery told me I have super thick tough cataracts. They cannot break them into pieces to take them out well. She sent me to a doc trained to take the entire cataract out at once.

Today I had surgery #1 for cataracts on my left eye. It went well, but the doc could not get a lens in it. He is sending me back to the doc who did surgery #3 for the right eye and put a lens in.
Expected to get a lens in today, but low expectations keep the world turning.

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/19636https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/19636Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:24:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Mon, 20 Jan 2025 19:31:54 GMT]]>The ophthalmologist who did my mom's cataract surgery used to present an African violet in bloom to his patients when they came in the day after surgery to have their bandage removed. Mom couldn't believe how different colors looked!

@CHAS , so glad to hear things are progressing for you.

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8980https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8980Mon, 20 Jan 2025 19:31:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Mon, 20 Jan 2025 19:22:56 GMT]]>@CHAS I was shocked when I saw some of the colors I chose for some of my knitting designs!

Under-promise, over-deliver: That just makes us consider the worst case scenario, and usually it’s better and we’re grateful instead of angry.

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8979https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8979Mon, 20 Jan 2025 19:22:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:39:59 GMT]]>@Quirt-Evans

Thank you.
My vision in that eye made big improvements the first two days after the surgery. I expect the improvements to slow. I do tell Bob he is looking better every day.
Missing physical activity. Was warned about bending and lifting.
Wonder whether a good sneeze would make the eye a projectile. 🙂

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8970https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8970Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:39:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:58:07 GMT]]>Just saw this, I hope you're getting better, Chas.

The eye doctor told me I am starting to get cataracts, like almost everyone my age, but that I have a few years before I need the surgery.

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8953https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8953Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:58:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Sat, 18 Jan 2025 23:04:52 GMT]]>Thank you to each of you.
My vision in that eye is still bad, but improving. The colors are wild. A football field is a wild obnoxious yellow green. I suppose it will resolve.
"Under promise, over deliver. " is probably widespread in the eye business. Wonder whether it relates to liability concerns.

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8848https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8848Sat, 18 Jan 2025 23:04:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Sat, 18 Jan 2025 22:35:49 GMT]]>Glad you're having positive outcomes, Chas!

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8846https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8846Sat, 18 Jan 2025 22:35:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Sat, 18 Jan 2025 20:41:05 GMT]]>Hoping for the best possible outcome for you, Chas.

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8837https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8837Sat, 18 Jan 2025 20:41:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Mon, 20 Jan 2025 19:21:00 GMT]]>I’m glad for you, @CHAS and hope that your vision continues to improve.

My retina specialist told me that there was a 50 percent chance I could be blind in my left eye after cataract surgery. Then he paused and said, “that’s one in two.” Yeah, I can do the math. So I waited a few more years until my vision was so awful it was making my work life stupid. It’s turned out mostly great.

Under promise, over deliver?

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8816https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8816Mon, 20 Jan 2025 19:21:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:43:57 GMT]]>Good news! 👍

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8805https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8805Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:43:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:44:14 GMT]]>I can see.
Had cataract surgery Tuesday.  Doc could not complete it. I have tough cataracts.  That eye has been damaged. Sent me to a doc at another clinic. Had surgery Thursday.  It was a much better experience.   Today I could see a symbol of a large broken ring on the screen. My vision in that eye is expected to improve. That is a great improvement. Was told I could lose the vision  in  that  eye.

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8804https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8804Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:44:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:00:24 GMT]]>Lol. But sorry for your horrible experiences, Chas.

Wishing you the best.

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8773https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8773Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:00:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:12:23 GMT]]>Thanks to each of you.
Had a second surgery this morning. They removed the cataracts that were stuck to the lens, among other things. This is going as predicted. The eye was damaged severely when I was a teenager and they said the structure was weak and squishy. The place I had surgery this morning was a luxury hotel compared to the subway of the other place. The staff was upbeat. The surgeon seemed to be so intelligent his brain was throwing sparks. The first surgeon was named Wright, second Wong. Told Wong I had gone from Wright to Wong. I was told my vision would not be better after these procedures and that I may require thick glasses full time by three of the doctors I have seen for this. There will be more surgeries on the right eye before they start on the left one.

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8770https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/8770Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:12:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Get your eyes checked!!! on Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:47:51 GMT]]>Hugs, @CHAS …..

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