I’m now four days on from surgery and my eye-sight has returned to nearly normal. Not much to choose between my good eye and operated eye. I have no pain or grittiness but am still taking eye-drops. Strangely, the vision in my operated eye is better with my glasses than without. (I was told I might have to take the lens out of the frame in order to see). Perhaps they put the old lens back in? (ha ha).
It was a strange experience having a surgeon rummaging around inside my eye for about ten minutes. It felt uncomfortable and a bit painful at times but not too bad – on a par with root canal work. Not something you’d look forward to but not unbearable.
There was no restraint of the head. I just had to keep still.
I was lying there feeling the pressure and dull pain in my eye as the surgeon operated. My imagination was working overtime. I could imagine the instruments actually inside my eye, macerating my cloudy lens and sucking it out. It went on for about ten minutes (seemed longer). The surgeon kept repositioning my head. I tried not to blink. I could feel him reaming away but I heard no suction. At times he worked on a delicate area and the aching pain increased but never became unbearable. I tried to tell the point at which he placed the new lens in but failed. I could feel him positioning it though.
Then it was over. I walked out of the operating theatre. A plastic, protective covering had been taped over my eye. I had to keep that on for a day. I was given two lots of eyedrops, told not to rub or touch the eye and I was out the door.
The next day I took the plastic covering off, popped in some drops, and found the world covered in fog. The operated eye was like looking through a dense mist. I could see very little. Gradually, over the course of the next few days, the fog lifted. The eye became clearer, the soreness disappeared. I am now back to normal though I can not yet discern any improvement. Early days!