Cataract Surgery

[CPP]

I just counted them up. There are 150 scheduled eye drop applications over a 32 day period.

I have had two other types of surgery in the last four years, so I know the drill.

Those little drops are $$$, just glad I got the insurance to assist. Oh and the little eye shield they will give you , is worth wearing for sleeping or if you are a person that subconsciously rubs their eyes.

[Speedskater]

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Preschedule follow up etc. Doctors and their teams do nothing to prepare a patient. From what I have seen.

I can make both sides of this discussion.
Including the major hospital chain in Cleveland.

[CPP]

Had my last post op appt yesterday. 20-20- both eyes, but will still need reading glasses for up close reading when I set down for a good book or to adjust my TT arm. So far very impressed with my surgeon and the laser process.

[astrotoy]

Glad to see you are doing well. My son-in-law is an opthalmologist at the VA in Los Angeles (so if you are a vet in LA he may well be doing your cataract surgery.) He also is an adjunct faculty member at UCLA and trains a lot of the opthalmology residents there including doing cataract surgery. He tells me that cataract surgery is pretty routine these days with very good results. With the demographics of vets, there will be more and more need for cataract surgery.

I think of a time when what an opthalmologist routinely does today would have been considered a miracle, restoring eyesight to the blind.

Larry

[Mr Peabody]

Great, glad all went well.

Had my last post op appt yesterday. 20-20- both eyes, but will still need reading glasses for up close reading when I set down for a good book or to adjust my TT arm. So far very impressed with my surgeon and the laser process.