Originally Posted by
Fat Tire
Grumpy Alert! What follows is an example of extreme grumpiness. I figure I am entitled.
I have a cataract growing in my right eye, which is actually my GOOD eye, not sure what to do about it. Just been ignoring it, getting on with things. Been wearing progressive addition lenses for years, very nice. I wear clip on sunglasses over the lens, so I have the cataract growing over the lens of my eye, the glasses over the cataract, sun glasses over the corrective lenses. I am expecting the ocular version of that famous '80s affliction, Shoulder Pad Buildup.
Is this the standard time for the hearty good humored 'joke/saying', "Blind in one eye, can't see out of the other?" 'Cause I don't see the "humor" in it. Been blind in one eye my whole life, figured I had sacrificed enough. When it gets bad enough that I can't read, THEN it will be an "emergency". Medicare, anyone?
End Grumpy!
Get it fixed, don't wait. This kind of surgery is a lot easier then it was in the 1970's, when aunt Mabel had it done, and it didn't work so well, and she couldn't move her head for a week, and was confined to bed for a month. I think it's pretty much day surgery now, you go in in the morning, and your home the same day. You need to remember though, there is often a waiting list for surgery, so if you wait until your functionally blind, you could have months where your unable to read, and worse unable to ride, before the surgery.