W2R
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This was a great thread. I am up for my first eye (right) on March 2. These posts have helped calm me down a bit - the idea of having someone working on my eyes has a big creep factor. Mine is going to be blade-less and the lens will be toric to correct for astigmatism. She can't tell if it will correct 100% until she plucks the old lens out.
Thanks to all the contributors to this thread.
Definitely a big creep factor! I have to admit that I was terrified and put it off until I just had no choice. If I had had the surgery earlier, I might have avoided some pretty awful falls, broken toes, and so on, mostly due to poor vision.
For me the most wonderful, exhilarating feeling was after the surgery on the first eye, and realizing that I could SEE. Not only that, but I could see better than before the surgery. Pretty amazing. After that experience, the second eye wasn't scary at all.
DW is also having one eye done 3/2.
Congratulation to her and to jebmke for taking this momentous step! I'll be hoping that both have good outcomes like I did.
I still seem to have double vision sometimes but only when my eyes are very tired late at night. I plan to mention it again to my opthalmologist on my last post-op checkup, which is in April I think. I suspect he is going to say it is due to dry eyes. So, I should probably get some saline eyedrops and try them first. Just haven't gotten around to it.