Well the day finally arrived to get the cataract removed from my right eye. Up to this point in time, everything that I looked at had a ghost image to the right of the object. The ghost was not a problem when looking at items up close, but when the objects were further away I really noticed the problem.
Driving, looking at telephone poles with a snowy winter background was really a problem.
My wife drove me up to the "Cataract and Lasik Center of Utah" for my 9:30 am appointment. We entered the waiting room and I signed in with the receptionist.
A nurse came up to me in the waiting room and said that she had to apply some drops to dilate my eye. I was waiting for the eye drops but she put a small piece of cotton under my eyelid that contained the drops. This was done to make sure that my eye stayed dilated during the entire length of my visit.
As I sit there in the waiting room, a nurse assisted another elderly patient out of the operating room. She asked the patient who brought her here so she could give her instructions for care of the eye because she thought that the patient would not remember them. I thought to myself "Oh crap, I don't want to messed up that bad".
Well eventually I was taken back to a room next to the operating room. Here they gave me some drugs to calm me down. I had to hold the liquid under my tongue for 5 minutes so it could be absorbed into my system. While I was waiting, I decided that I would play a game of solitaire on my iPod touch. As the game progressed I noticed that I was missing some very obvious moves so I guessed that the drugs were working.
The nurse finally escorted me into the operating room. Finally it was my turn and I was going to get this over with. Funny, I didn't seem to mind that they would be poking and cutting my eye at this point. Now I had to complete a test before they would start working on me. What is my name? What is my birthday?, and the most important question... Which eye are they supposed to be working on.
I asked the nurse if I should be as coherent as I was currently and she said "we could give you more drugs if you want them". I opted out for the additional drugs since by this point in time I could care less if they were cutting on my eye.
They had me lay down to get ready for the operation. Out came the tape to tape my head in position. I looked up at the light and all I could see was blurry since my eye was dilated. As the operation proceeded all I can remember is the surgeon saying that I would feel some pressure, and each time she said that, the blurry light would move around.
The operation was finished in no time, I guess I was in there about 10 - 15 minutes. After the operation, a photo taking session for advertisements and something to drink since I hadn't had anything for the past 12 hours to eat or drink.
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