If someone is in need of cataract surgery but is leery about having it done, here's what my experience was.
I never had this explained to me before about the procedure of cataract surgery, it would have eased my mind quite a bit!
I spent about 3 hours going through quite a few tests, getting eye drops one after another, wide-angle vision tests etc, there for about 3 and a half hours. When all testing was done they set me up on another day for the surgery. This is the part no one ever told me about and I was very nervous on that day! Who wants someone probing in their eyes, scary right, well don't let it bother you, here's why. On the day of surgery, you will be taken into a preparation room by a nurse, you will be given half a dozen eye drops, prepped for intravenous injection, wired up to a monitor, then taken into the procedure room. While there the nurses, who by the way are so friendly and nice and explain everything they are doing, at that point they put what felt like a heavy dark pillow over my eye and what seemed to be a second or two, they removed the "pillow" and the nurse said " your done Mr. Jennings, you can set up now and step down from the bed. The actual time was about 15 minutes. I didn't know a thing about what happened except it was all over. A little discomfort the first day of the procedure, after a good night's sleep I felt little to no discomfort and blurred vision but as the day progressed the vision cleared up quite a bit. I actually drove to my eye doctor for his evaluation. I am typing this without my glasses for the first time in over 20 years! If you need it, don't hesitate,
GET IT DONE!!!