<![CDATA[The Next Big Writer — Cataract Surgery]]> https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/topic2685-cataract-surgery.html Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:04:13 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: Cataract Surgery]]> https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37327.html#p37327 Fortunately, NVIDIA allows full control over brightness and contrast of the screen. I've backed off slightlhy already.

Bill

]]> Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:04:13 +0000 https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37327.html#p37327 <![CDATA[Re: Cataract Surgery]]> https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37326.html#p37326 B Douglas Slack wrote:

The light snow on the ground was blazingly white instead of slightly tarnished 'eggshell white'. Wonderful. Can't wait for the right eye now.
Bill

Soon you'll need sunglasses to look at the screen. :-)
Glad it went well.

]]> Thu, 17 Jan 2019 17:59:26 +0000 https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37326.html#p37326 <![CDATA[Re: Cataract Surgery]]> https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37325.html#p37325 Thanks, Lynn. My eye is healing faster than the doctor thought. I've graduated to simple eye drops every 4 hours now. Next week, the left eye will receive the same treatment. My right eye vision has improved a great deal.

Bill

]]> Thu, 17 Jan 2019 14:20:05 +0000 https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37325.html#p37325 <![CDATA[Re: Cataract Surgery]]> https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37324.html#p37324 Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Bill.
We'll miss you while you're gone and look forward to your return.
Lynn

]]> Thu, 17 Jan 2019 13:01:59 +0000 https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37324.html#p37324 <![CDATA[Re: Cataract Surgery]]> https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37280.html#p37280 Thank you so much, JP. Great song by Johnny Nash. I found it on YouTube and downloaded it. Hugely popular during my last tour in Vietnam (well, Thailand, actually, but it was still the war zone.)

Bill

]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2019 17:10:49 +0000 https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37280.html#p37280 <![CDATA[Re: Cataract Surgery]]> https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37279.html#p37279 Good going, Bill! Reminds me of a song: I can see clearly now...

]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2019 16:59:12 +0000 https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37279.html#p37279 <![CDATA[Re: Cataract Surgery]]> https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37278.html#p37278 Glad things are going well for you!

]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:37:29 +0000 https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37278.html#p37278 <![CDATA[Re: Cataract Surgery]]> https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37258.html#p37258 It was absolutely painless for me, Christine. I was awake during the surgery. The entire process took 35 minutes. The preparation and post-op processes took longer than the surgery. What an amazing difference to my vision.

Bill

]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2019 19:16:10 +0000 https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37258.html#p37258 <![CDATA[Re: Cataract Surgery]]> https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37257.html#p37257 So good to hear all is going so well, Bill. Also encouraging for me who sooner or later has to have the same procedure done.
Christine

]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2019 19:06:29 +0000 https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37257.html#p37257 <![CDATA[Re: Cataract Surgery]]> https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37255.html#p37255 Absolutely. Had an appointment with my eye doc this morning. Before, I was able to read only the top letter of his eye chart. This time, even with the slight fuzziness of dilation, I read the fourth line down (one up from the bottom). The 'yellowness' tint to everything is gone from the right eye. he says that was the cataract causing it. The light snow on the ground was blazingly white instead of slightly tarnished 'eggshell white'. Wonderful. Can't wait for the right eye now.

Bill

]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2019 17:13:14 +0000 https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37255.html#p37255 <![CDATA[Re: Cataract Surgery]]> https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37237.html#p37237 Great news, Bill!  Nice to be able to see, isn't it??

]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2019 03:23:04 +0000 https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37237.html#p37237 <![CDATA[Re: Cataract Surgery]]> https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37231.html#p37231 Roughly 12 hours after operation, my eye is still dialated a little, but I can see almost clearly enough to read without my glasses.

Bill

]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2019 23:19:17 +0000 https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37231.html#p37231 <![CDATA[Re: Cataract Surgery]]> https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37229.html#p37229 Hope things progress well.

]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2019 20:35:47 +0000 https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37229.html#p37229 <![CDATA[Re: Cataract Surgery]]> https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37226.html#p37226 Thank You, everyone. I was in the operating room a total of 35 minutes, then back into recovery. Total time at the hospital was 5.5 hours. I have a cup over my eye now, but that comes off in another hour. Expect some blurry vision for perhaps two days, then back to normal. Right eye in two weeks.

Bill

]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2019 18:08:26 +0000 https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37226.html#p37226 <![CDATA[Re: Cataract Surgery]]> https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post37225.html#p37225 Best wishes Bill. Hope you're among those who drive back home from the surgery.

Kiss,

Gacela

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