It is all about you eye lens thickening and thus becoming cloudy gradually worsening that impedes the passage of light.
Cataracts affects clarity of your vision and color pixels from penetrating which is why all of us having had this surgery rave about the explosion of colors we haven’t enjoyed for years. You can’t understand until you experience this.
The surgery is always done one eye at a time, never both together. I had my left eye done and you are sent home with it covered for 24 hrs and return the next day for your eye surgeon to evaluate the preliminary results and make sure your lens hasn’t become repositioned. Then you go home, continue healing and return to have your other eye done.
Pretty simple……here’s what happened with me…….blah blah blah….come home from my surgeon the next day and walk in my kitchen and scream “Mother _ucker……Holy Shit…..Sweet Jesus Thank You……Thank You…..Dear God Thank You.” Those were pretty much my exact words screamed aloud. What could have caused me to react so astonished, surprised and excited at once…..Imagine….just instantly I screamed aloud…..what caused me to do it?
A pair of oven mittens……..yes, that’s all it took.
You see three years ago, one of my kids gave a pair of dark green oven mitts as a birthday gift along with some oven glassware. Nothing special about these mittens other than being well insulated. Now remember how I’ve described these mittens in the 1st sentence of this paragraph.
When I returned from the surgeon after he examined me the day after surgery, as earlier described, I merely walked into my kitchen, glanced around, saw the mittens and screamed. Now remember I only had one eye operated on and it wasn’t exactly a 100% yet 24 hrs. later but nonetheless, know what I saw or why I screamed so excitedly?
Those _ ucking mittens were blue, and not dark blue either…..just blue…..medium color …..like a ink pen would write.
For 3 years I thought they were dark green……OMG……and that was with only 1 eye operated on. Folks, I am telling
you that there is no way to imagine how much you are missing out on, and it only worsens year after year, until you reach the stage when and where surgery is warranted. You have no idea it is happening to you right now, no, not everybody. But when you reach a certain age, not even God’s angels can keep it from happening. It’s akin to merely saying I’m not gonna die because I don’t want to so I’m not. Got news for you…..your opinion doesn’t matter.
So as you gradually lose light penetration, it just becomes unnoticeable to you and you only see what you see, not what you formerly saw. You mind recalls memories but not the colorization aspect so you are unaware of it happening.
I was literally emotionally stunned momentarily to see blue mittens that I used all the time for 3 years but believed the mittens were dark green. The first thought that popped into mind was I wonder what I really look like after I dress myself? What the hell colors am I wearing every day? Jeez almighty. I ran outside to look at the world and turned around immediately and said…..Whoa Moma.
You see, there is a small price to pay for having cataract surgery. Why do you think you are sent home with those enormous men in black sunglasses? You are now highly sensitive to light forever more…….quote the Raven…… “Forever more.”
You cannot go into bright sunlight without sunglasses and squinting is useless. Whereas before the passage of light was diminishing every day, now it’s throttle open and bright light becomes blinding. You cannot see so protective eyewear is necessary. I bought 4 pair of Ray Ban Aviators, non-prescriptive of course, and wear only one of course. The other 3 are backups, like in my glove box or on my shelf. It’s a small price to pay to see the workd in all its splendid colors.
As far as pool. It is like being a teenager. The light is overhead so it never is an issue even shooting from the foot rail to
the head rail on a 10’ pool table. My Centennial pool balls never looked so good, vivid colors and clear as as high definition TV. Gosh, for the first time in many years I can admit I do own a few handsome pool cue designs….the colors on my Prewitt cue look so much better and one of my z Owen cue veneers is better than I recall. Life is good.
Folks, I haven’t exaggerated a single thing about my surgery, what happened the day after in my kitchen or anything about how colors came to life again. It’s something you must experience, feel the excitement and enthusiasm for sight.
p.s. I am one of the rare ones, or suppose so, since I do not need reading or distance glasses any longer…..it is great.
