Tina
I join in sending you best wishes for the anticipated cataract surgery.
I have not had the experience myself but saw the difference it made to
my wife's sight, (including the much improved capability to read road
signs!). As discussed previously on the list, such operations can
affect colour vision and, as I understand it, this is because the
defective lens acts in some ways like a yellow filter. For many people,
I suspect this is only really noticeable if they have two eyes done at
intervals of weeks (or more) - certainly in my wife's case she found
that during the interval the perceived colour of one particular item of
my clothing was markedly different between the two eyes ( blue in one
case, and green in the other). You might wish to think in advance about
this, Tina, and consider some benchmarks to help judge its potential
significance, if any. Another fact which is apparently often not
mentioned in advance, is that there is a particular complication which
is relatively common (about 10%?) in the weeks following the initial
operation but is very easily rectified by a subsequent laser treatment
(as discovered by my wife). No doubt your surgeon will know vastly more
about these matters than I do.
Brian Gray
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