Welcome to the world of vision! Iād sing something about following the yellow brick road now that you can distinguish it from the rest of the sepia-toned world and read highway signs but you do NOT want to hear me sing. Just thrilled that everything went smoothly for you. Yay!ššš
I wore glasses and contacts from age 7. Had cataract surgery in 2022 and it was like the scene when Dorothy enters Oz. The difference was that extreme. I do need readers now, but I can read highway signs. Iāll take it. Good luck, Teri!
Thanks, Mary! Needing readers, or even a prescription that is easily filled will be a good outcome. Right now, even my new glasses can only give me unsatisfactory vision at most distances. I would love to have a Dorothy lands in Oz moment!
As you guessed, the IV isn't required. It is mostly to chill you out and help you lie still. Initially, I said , "Let's skip the IV." But the concern I came to was the need to lie really still. Because of my various on-board discomforts, it can be difficult for me to be super still for 20 minutes.
I don't know what to say about the taping the head down thing. I immediately had flashes of multiple horror movies where taping peoples' heads down invariably led to a bad scene.
Teri, back in 2003, I had LASIK surgery. I was not given an IV anesthetic but I must have had some sort of numbing drops. I did not feel the equipment slicing my corneas. Is the IV really necessary?
Also, kind of taping your head down? This is 2024; donāt they have some other means of securing your head? No one wants their head taped down! (least of all you, I understand).
I know what you mean on both counts. My last oral surgeon (a VERY handsome young man) looked like he was 12 when I first met him!
I'm almost 54 (next month!) at 55, people are considered middle aged, but I don't see myself that way, either. Just the other day, I was driving around blasting Tool, Metallica, and other metal! I really think it's more about how we see ourselves. Who cares what other people think?!
For me, with my highly visible and unusual disability, it has always been more about how I think of myself than how others define me, so this is just a new wrinkle to that old story.š„²
Fingers crossed! I thought of telling the doctor that I was going to have to live to 96 to get my money's worth out of the lenses, but I wasn't sure he would get that I was kidding (sort of.) š
Welcome to the world of vision! Iād sing something about following the yellow brick road now that you can distinguish it from the rest of the sepia-toned world and read highway signs but you do NOT want to hear me sing. Just thrilled that everything went smoothly for you. Yay!ššš
I wore glasses and contacts from age 7. Had cataract surgery in 2022 and it was like the scene when Dorothy enters Oz. The difference was that extreme. I do need readers now, but I can read highway signs. Iāll take it. Good luck, Teri!
Thanks, Mary! Needing readers, or even a prescription that is easily filled will be a good outcome. Right now, even my new glasses can only give me unsatisfactory vision at most distances. I would love to have a Dorothy lands in Oz moment!
As you guessed, the IV isn't required. It is mostly to chill you out and help you lie still. Initially, I said , "Let's skip the IV." But the concern I came to was the need to lie really still. Because of my various on-board discomforts, it can be difficult for me to be super still for 20 minutes.
I don't know what to say about the taping the head down thing. I immediately had flashes of multiple horror movies where taping peoples' heads down invariably led to a bad scene.
Teri, back in 2003, I had LASIK surgery. I was not given an IV anesthetic but I must have had some sort of numbing drops. I did not feel the equipment slicing my corneas. Is the IV really necessary?
Also, kind of taping your head down? This is 2024; donāt they have some other means of securing your head? No one wants their head taped down! (least of all you, I understand).
Good luck! Dr. T sounds like a good guy. I'm sure you'll be fine!
Thanks, Jennifer!
Yeah, Dr. T seems like a good guy. I am officially at the age where the doctors look like young kids to me.
I read somewhere yesterday that 65 and up is considered elderly. I am 66, and I just don't think of myself that way (yet?)
I know what you mean on both counts. My last oral surgeon (a VERY handsome young man) looked like he was 12 when I first met him!
I'm almost 54 (next month!) at 55, people are considered middle aged, but I don't see myself that way, either. Just the other day, I was driving around blasting Tool, Metallica, and other metal! I really think it's more about how we see ourselves. Who cares what other people think?!
For me, with my highly visible and unusual disability, it has always been more about how I think of myself than how others define me, so this is just a new wrinkle to that old story.š„²
True.
Good luck! I've had glasses since probably junior high and it would be really nice not to need them for a while in my old age.
Fingers crossed! I thought of telling the doctor that I was going to have to live to 96 to get my money's worth out of the lenses, but I wasn't sure he would get that I was kidding (sort of.) š
Very funny.