Cindy Your Mother-in-Law may well be right about waiting. My mother was an active woman and caregiver for my invalid father. They operated on her eye (cataract) and the pressure was up and it literally exploded. The inside of the eye came out and she is now permanently blind in that eye. It has been a total life changing thing for her. Her other eye is somewhat sympathetic to the now blind eye and her vision sometimes comes and goes. She tripped and fell and broke her hip due to the limited vision. We never thought something so common place could be such a disaster.
We lost my dad some time after this happened but my Mom no longer is active because she is afraid. She has never totally recovered from the hip surgery and uses a walker now. Caution is a good thing. Things can happen. Dianne ----- Original Message ----- From: chaha<mailto:ch...@tx.rr.com> To: Silver List<mailto:silver-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:31 AM Subject: CS>Cataract Surgery My Mother-in-Law had her first cataract surgery this week and had a rare complication of pressure build-up in her eye. She has found it traumatic enough to want to wait a while before having the second eye done. She is severely limited now in her activities and she's normally very active. Big bummer for her. Both my parents have had both eyes done and love it. My dad played golf the same day the second eye was done. Both got the lense implant so glasses are not needed unless doing a lot of reading. It certainly depends on the person how you'll respond. In both cases, they've gotten recommendations of friends that did had successful surgeries. Cindy
