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Good luck. I wear trifocals and hope to never have eye surgery

Like Martin said, the surgery itself only takes about 15 minutes or less, and you're awake during it. Amazing what progress has been made there in the last 50 years. When my Grandma had hers, she was immobilized for weeks, and then had to wear those thick coke bottle glasses.

I had mine done about a year and a half ago, with only about a week or 10 days in between them. My wife drove me home from surgery both times, but the following morning I drove myself back in for the follow up.

Let us know how it went, Tiny.

I was home by lunch. Eye taped closed. I pulled the tape around 1 to administer the first round of eye drops. Quite blurry. They told me it could be a number of days before my vision completely clears. I guess it varies widely from person to person. It's now almost 4 and it's improved a lot. Still a bit blurry but getting better. It was quite the experience being awake while someone is cutting on your eye. After the eye drops and blocking shot all I could really see was light and dark but a nervous time none the less. I have a guard to wear at night and have my follow up tomorrow. I plan to drive to it myself.

Glad it’s s looking good Tiny! (Pun intended).

Don

Hey Brian, happy new year. Good to hear from you, hope you've been doin' ok these
past few years.
I'm just like you, I can't stand anything at all near my eyes. It took my optometrist a
half hour to get a chip out of the corner of my eye one time, almost all the time
was spent trying to prop my eye lids open and keep me from blinking.
That's why I'm not a good candidate for cataract surgery.....unless they can knock me out
during the procedure, I doubt I'd make it 10 minutes.
Denny G
Sandwich, IL

Tiny, glad it went smoothly. I drove from Philly back to El Reno, Ok in 2009 with a patch over my right eye the day they removed the radiation patch from my retina. Kept telling Ms Kathy she had to be my right eye. Problem was she is blind in her right eye so she had to keep her head on a swivel the whole trip. Arkansas City to the appointment should be a breeze. Have fun with those drops!

Roger that! The antibiotic drops burn like a gobsteen bugger!!

Follow up check in. How’s it going?

Real blurry the first day but getting better each day. Since the grind on my glasses is for nearsighted and my right eye is no longer that I removed the right lens. Just today I noticed the vision is about equal between the operated eye and my other eye looking through my glasses. That's encouraging. It's a bit disconcerting when I try to see something close up since my left eye still has the bifocal and the right eye is long sighted only. I have to close my right eye and just one-eye it through the bifocal. The day after surgery at the follow up my normal eye doctor said the new eye was 20-60 and should be very close to 20-20 when all the corneal swelling goes away. Next follow up is next Friday. If all is well he'll schedule the other eye with the surgeon. I've noticed the colors aren't really brighter as such but the over all brightness is different. My left eye looks like everything is lit by a warm, yellowish light bulb while the operated eye looks like everything is lit by a garish LED. I'll get used to it but I really prefer the warmer colors.