HealthDay Reporter Dennis Thompson
healthday reporter – Thu Dec 27, 5: 03 pm ET
Monday, December 27, HealthDay News)--Marilyn Norred has known for 30 years who had cataracts in both eyes.
"Then They saw them and said, ' Someday they'll be more and more and you'll need surgery then '" Norred, now 74, and live in Oklahoma City, recalls.
That the time is come this year. Norred had cataract surgery on both eyes in spring--right eye on 27 May and his left eye, on 10 June.
His vision, he said, had become increasingly blurred. Because she also glaucoma, sees his doctor eye every six months. On the last visit, the doctor has noticed that the cataract had begun to deteriorate.
"You said, ' you'll let me know when you are ready for surgery ', and I said, ' I am, '" Norred invoked, with a chuckle. "When you cannot read scores soccer game on TV, you know that something is wrong."
He admitted being nervous until the surgery. "I am a retired registered nurse, but you still get nervous when is she," he said. During this procedure, you would be awake but numb. "The doctor said, ' you'll see lights and colors, but there's no feeling at all, '" Norred told. "They numb it up quite well. "
And this is what Norred recalls from surgery: lights, colours and lots of water. "Has just been flooded," he said. "I don't know what they did." Surgeries lasted about 15-20 minutes, and then spent 20 minutes of recovery, he said. She left twice already seen through the eye which had been operated.
"They don't put eye patch more," said Norred. "They give you wear glasses and have to wear an eye patch when sleeping [because] they don't want to glance".
Her vision was blurry for a few hours, but had begun to cancel before the end of the day, he said.
"Every day after that, it gets better and better," he said. "I was so amazed with the colours and brightness of this world. I didn't know I was badly off. Things only gradually worsened, and you don't realize that the view is Dim, to reach this wonderful gift.
His advice to others with cataract? Look forward surgery rather than be frightened by the prospect.
"They've done," he said. "There is no problem. It's just a gift to have this view back again. I know that it's scary to have someone messing with your eyes. This was my problem. But it works. "
More information
An article in the cataract companion on explains many of the myths surrounding the condition.
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