That’s called downsizing. It’s a bitch.
If I had to move with my pile 'o collected crap I’d be tempted to walk away with what I can get in my car. Add pets and it won’t be much.
Start giving away stuff now. Push it, pull it, ask someone to carry it to the curb. FREE on a sign. It’ll be gone by tomorrow.
Once you get emotionally detached it’s very easy.
I had cataract surgery on both eyes, once about 10 years ago and about 3 years ago on the right eye (not that I had cataracts, it was just to help alleviate pressure from glaucoma!)
Anyway, about 8 months ago I noticed my vision getting very blurry in the right eye, so after much ado went for a vision check and found there is a condition that can happen weeks/months or years after cataract surgery caused by capsular thickening. A quick 10 min laser treatment at the ophthalmologist two days ago and I can SEE again, well at least in my right eye, the left one is a lost cause really.
So just be aware of this relatively common complication, and how easily and quickly it can be fixed. My vision was back to good within an hour of the treatment.
I wholeheartedly agree with this. I haven’t yet had cataract surgery, but as someone who has worn glasses for distance since childhood and loves the ability to read, use a computer, or do any sort of fine detail work without glasses, this is what I want in a cataract lens – a monofocal that restores clarity while giving me the near-sightedness I’ve been used to all my life.
Others may have different ideas and may prefer multi-focals or uncorrected distance vision or any number of other options, but they’re not for me.
Sadly I have astigmatism. A monofocal lens won’t correct that. And I’m not willing to pay $3500 for a toric lens, so I’m in glasses no matter what. It’s cool: I’ve worn glasses for 40 years, I can deal.
Honestly, after dealing with contacts, I have a deep suspicion of multifocal optics. Glasses can be corrected, but your eye lenses cannot. Let’s do the former.
That’s where I’m leaning. I want to be able to read in bed, and trim my nails, without glasses.
I, too, have astigmatism. Don’t know how bad yours is, which is a factor, but despite not getting a toric lens I find my astigmatism isn’t noticeable with near-to-computer distance. It is noticeable with distance, but not overwhelming. Prescription glasses definitely “fine tune” my vision, but my vision is useful and usable even without them.
My near vision now allows me to read in bed and trim my nails without glasses, but I find that for extended close work - reading, crafts, whatever - I do like a pair of readers now. It just makes things a touch easier.
My vision is not perfect, it is different. The fact that without glasses I am not functionally blind is the biggest appeal to me. I mean, the OP is complaining that all he can see is his feet. Before my surgery, without glasses I couldn’t even see as far as my knees, much less my feet.
My astigmatism is pretty bad. I’m rethinking paying for the toric lenses. I was this close to paying $16k OOP a couple of weeks ago. What’s $3500 on that scale? It just offends me that that’s 7x the price the other eye doc quoted.
I do my preop appointement on 11/27 in 5 days, so I’ll see the office people and discuss total price out of pocket.
I did the preop appointment. The doc really pushed on me to do the first eye as “far” then we could see how I adjusted. After reasoning with him for a while, I agreed so we’re doing that. He explained we could adjust the other eye depending on how I did with the first eye. Basically I’ll need glasses for both near and far, so it doesn’t matter much what we choose for the monofocals. An option is to do one eye far, the other near, which worked pretty good for me with contacts. We’ll see how I do after the first lens implanted on the Dec 9.
Toric lenses (astigmatism correction) were $3000 per eye, so that’s right out. Especially since I’ll need glasses anyway.
I need to get 3 sets of eye drops from the pharmacy, two types before surgery taken several times a day, then another post surgery drop also taken several times a day. I need to wear an eye patch when sleeping for several days post surgery. I’d gotten a cotton “pirate patch” on Amazon; the nurse thought this was acceptable, but gave me a plastic eye shield also that I could tape to my head.
Me too, yesterday. Getting both eyes done in January two weeks apart. Lots of drs appts involved, 7 not counting yesterdays.
Bad eye first ( it’s 20/800, no central vision at all). Just the basic replacement lenses, what Medicare would pay for. Toric would have been $2100 extra per eye. That is a big nope. Glasses near and far afterwards.
I’m ready to be able to read for more than an hour or two a day and to be able to drive at night. Street signs have been a lost cause for a year.
My surgeon is doing the dropless surgery, which is a relief since I live alone and giving myself drops 4X a day would have been a struggle. Turns out it can be cheaper because the steroid and antibiotic is injected into your eye during the surgery, instead of having to buy two different bottles of expensive prescription eye drops which any on drug plan may or may not agree to pay for. A different stream of Medicare pays for the injected during surgery medications than the drug plans, which yank you around every which way.
Best of luck to the two of you, and to the four eyes among you.
@squeegee I know you’ve been struggling with poor vision recently, and @BippityBoppityBoo I know you’ve been struggling mightily with poor vision for an awfully long time now.
I’d love to tear up by having you both report back with outstanding news!
Thank you~I hope so too. I’ve had eye surgery with this group of eye surgeons before and it went really smoothly, with very good results, so I can be calm about the anesthesia and peppy young whippernapper surgeons cutting into my eyeballs. The round of dilation and three sets of measurements yesterday I expect will likely be the most annoying part. I’ve had root canals I’ve dreaded a lot more.
Best wishes to both of you.
Explain more? My doctor didn’t offer this option. Honestly, I don’t see how multiple drops daily was much of a burden given my f’d up vision. Do the self applied drops f up your vision? Thanks!
Here’s the explanation from my surgeons cataract page.
… Dropless Cataract Surgery | Lincoln, Nebraska | Expert Surgeons…
I’ll see if I can find more information. I’m relieved because I live alone and the prospect of putting in eye drops by myself 4 times a day for several weeks was daunting. With dropless surgery the surgeon, at the end, injects a long lasting solution of a steroid and an antibiotic into the eyeball, which serves the same purpose as the eye drops post surgery for weeks. Big relief for one of my major concerns.
Today is Saturday. Surgery on Monday. I’ve been doing the eye drops probably not as religiously as I should. Prednisolone (steroid) for now then afterwards two other drops for a few days. Looking forward to better vision, but I’m told it takes like a month for things to settle. I’ll be blind in one eye for the day (dilated), but the doctor was encouraging that the second day will be better. Bullshit doc: third day.
Though I don’t live alone, I put in my drops myself and had no problems doing it. Since I had two operations two weeks apart I did it for a total of six weeks, though only 3 times a day. I didn’t get the option to go dropless.
Although no one can promise you any particular result, I just want to say that despite being dilated and blurry I had immediately better vision right there in the OR. So… you might have better results than expected. I certainly hope you do.
Although yes, it does take about a month for an eye to heal and “settle”. Keep following doc’s directions in the meanwhile.
I got my first eye done five days ago. The first day my eye was very irritated, but it felt much better on day two and my vision was decent.
The biggest problem was the dilation, which kept me in the basement for two days. On days when I would have appreciated the standard PacNW cloudy weather, we had brilliant sunshine. It took three full days to return to normal so any light brighter than “dim” didn’t hurt.
And while it’s not perfect (especially since I’ve only had one so far), it’s much better. I got monovision lenses with the distance eye first, and I can now see great without glasses. If I look only with my new eye, I can’t read crap without readers, but using both eyes I can read up close without help. So I guess my brain has already adjusted to using the correct eye for distance vs close.
Before this, I couldn’t give myself eye drops. But with 4 drops of prednisolone and 3 of Muro every day, I figured it out quickly and got over my squeamishness. I thought that part would be an issue for me, so that’s a relief.
Eye #2 in nine days.
You were dilated for two days? In my experience the dilation lasts about 8 hours.
How did you calculate your prescription? The doc has been super vague about what glasses I’d need. Just use your old prescription I was told, which seems nuts to me.