August 9, 2011
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“Someday” is TOMORROW!
Sorry about the caps and all, but this is an extremely big deal to me. For years–more than five, anyway–this cataract thing has been developing, my eyesight has been slipping away bit by bit, to the point that I am blind in my right eye, and have kinda fuzzy vision in my left (stage four and stage one cataracts, respectively).
Anyway, all this time I have been thinking that I’d get this fixed someday. Never a specific time or date–just someday, way ahead in the future.
And now, someday is tomorrow. Kathy will fire up her trusty Jeep, drive me into the surgery place, check into our motel, and come back to get me.
I am excited, anticipatory, grateful, slightly awed–oh, and scared to death.
See, for over half a century I have been training my self to be protective of my eleys. And tomrrow, I will have to sit still, wide awake, when this big needle goes into my eye for the express purpose of destroying my lens. Jeez, now I wish I had not written that. Scary stuff.
I assume they know what they are doing.
I will put my eyes in their hands.
So to speak.
Comments (3)
The thought of being conscious while people poke at my eyes is a large part of the reason I’ve never seriously considered corrective eye surgeries. Just NO, ya know?
My grandfather had cataract surgery some years ago, when he finally reached the point that a problem during surgery couldn’t do any more harm than living with the cataract. (Scar tissue in the other eye meant failure would result in permanent near-blindness.) It did indeed turn out great and he was AMAZED by how much he had gotten used to -not- seeing. Hope you get a similar experience!
I had Lasik, and it is as scary as heck to have someone mess with your eyes! Came out fine for me.
My mother-in-law had cataracts done last century, and it went great for her – and I am sure that techniques and practices have improved since then.
All the best for the operations.
I had it done not long ago, and I was sorry I had not had it done sooner. Good luck, and you will be amazed at the difference, right out of the operating room.