Progress after cataract surgery - one week

The lunatic is on the grass

Went back to the eye clinic today for the doctor who operated on me to examine the progress on my previously blind eye. It had become completely blind due to a very dense cataract. All I could see out of it was if it was night or day, nothing else.

The results to date have been nothing short of modern medicine miraculous. I still have blood around the bit that sees things as I moved during the laser surgery (fell asleep to be exact from the anesthetic) but no biggie. That'll be gone in a couple of weeks I'd say.

But the ability to see hasn't at all been affected by that side issue. Today on the eye chart I was able to read the second to bottom line of small letters without my glasses. In fact my glasses make me see worse as they're prescription glasses and now the left lens isn't suited to my left eye. I now go about the day without glasses, but still need them for near vision. But honestly they're just not right for me anymore.

Another thing that I've noticed is the huge difference in focus and colour in the left operated on eye, as opposed to my right eye which was the only one I could see anything with. I was told by a specialist through the course of everyone trying to get my eye measurements for the operation, that my right eye was also starting to develop a cataract. Which has evidently progressed somewhat whilst I was on the waiting list for this surgery.

So now because my left eye is healing and improving as it does so, everything is way more colourful and clear. Now if I look out of my right eye only it's quite cloudy in comparison and blurry. I wasn't able to read the same line of the eye chart that I did with my left eye. Doctor said that once this left eye is all sorted out and healed then she'd look at what the right eye was doing.

Cripes, no wonder I was bumping into things and all. I wasn't half blind, I was about two thirds fuckin blind!

The change, as it is so far, has taken some getting used to. Was watching a movie recently with David and I had to change the contrast. I'd set it to 100% FFS because I was trying to manage with one cloudy eye.

BTW the TV we got after our other one carked it looks fantastic :) Seeing it with two eyes now.