We’re cancer doctors. Here’s why Medicare Advantage fails America’s elderly.

[goillini52]

Compared to all the saws and hammers they've used on me over the years, my cataract surgery was a piece of cake.

The hardest part was that eye patch he told me to wear for a couple of days. It only lasted one.

Obviously I wasn't cut out to be a pirate.

i know they won't, but if a person got both eyes done at the same time, how would they see with a patch over both eyes....a double pirate.

 

[renee15]

See, I am typing on the computer without glasses.... because.... well.... I am near sighted and so that greatly delayed the need for reading glasses (a good reason not to get surgical vision correction when you are young). Actually I also have mild cataracts and hope I never need to make the decision being discussed on this thread.

Cataract surgery is around 8 minutes long. You wear a plastic eye shield at night for a week, to avoid rubbing your eye. It is easier than getting a CT scan, or many other types of medical treatments. My first cataract surgery was after I suffered a detached retina. I had 2 other eye surgeries first (vitrectomies) to fix the retina. The surgery damages the eye lens requiring cataract surgery a short time later. Monovision was the Recommendation of my Retina Specialist.

 

[rmhaire]

i know they won't, but if a person got both eyes done at the same time, how would they see with a patch over both eyes....a double pirate.

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I'm gonna pass on the patch. I'm picky about something touching my eyes.

My grandfather had cataract surgery before I was born so obviously they've been doing it awhile. With his, the doctor did do both eyes on the same day.

Bad part was, the doctor screwed something up and my grandfather wound up totally blind. Both eyes.

Maybe that's why they only do one eye at a time these days.

 

[Winters Ins Agcy]

I literally took them off of medicare.gov since that was fastest. They were for t65 female non smoker in this area.

Are you sure that's not a High G?

 

[annon123]

Are you sure that's not a High G?

No they not High G. High G is worse.