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My cataract surgery did not go that well. I've been on blood pressure medicine for a good while and that causes a condition in the eyes that requires the doc to have to spend more time in the eye so more time for recovery. The right one was done last and the cataract was worse in that eye which took more time plus the blood pressure problem, and the next day I was blind in that eye which didn't happen with the first one. That freaked me out but when got to doctor he said due to being in there longer, the eye had swelled and I'd start gradually seeing out of that eye as the swelling went down. It took about a week for the swelling to go away.

A medical first happened with my first eye done. My eye could see what he was doing. I saw the lens break and fall down like pieces of shiny broken glass. Then the eye saw those pieces sucked out. Since I had never had that done, I thought it was normal for the eye to see that. Next day at doctor's I said I watched it happen in that eye. He was shocked and said no one had ever said that, no one saw that, and that should be in a medical journal. For the next eye, he knocked me totally out with the anesthetic which is not normally done. I knew nothing until it was over.

I see better than I ever have in my life. I was near sighted so long distance seeing didn't happen without glasses. Now, my long sight is 20-20 without glasses. I must have glasses for reading, however. Can't read jack without glasses but I have worn glasses since about 5th grade so the wearing isn't a problem.

I have a small nose bridge, always a problem to find glasses that fit, and these new reading glasses are a child's frame and they fit just swell. When I picked up that frame, the woman said those are for children. I put them on and she said, “Oh, they fit you.” I didn't realize they were titanium but knew it when I saw the charge. I'll never need another pair.