Bad eye news
Jul. 9th, 2011 06:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ashetlandponyI found out yesterday that the "wobbly" vision I developed after my cataract surgery is permanent.
The whole iris structure is now loose inside my eye. If you look at my left eye, you can visibly see the iris jiggle back and forth. The doctor said nothing can be done to correct it, it will never get better, and it can only get worse. He wants me to see a cornea/iris specialist at UCLA Medical Center, in case there has been some kind of advance in the treatment/correction of this complication that he does not know about. As far as he is aware, though, there isn't anything that can be done about it.
"...a recent study of more that 200,000 Medicare beneficiaries who underwent cataract surgery between 1994 and 2006 found that 99.5 percent of patients had no severe postoperative complications..."
Wouldn't you know I'd be one of the lucky 0.5%?
The whole iris structure is now loose inside my eye. If you look at my left eye, you can visibly see the iris jiggle back and forth. The doctor said nothing can be done to correct it, it will never get better, and it can only get worse. He wants me to see a cornea/iris specialist at UCLA Medical Center, in case there has been some kind of advance in the treatment/correction of this complication that he does not know about. As far as he is aware, though, there isn't anything that can be done about it.
"...a recent study of more that 200,000 Medicare beneficiaries who underwent cataract surgery between 1994 and 2006 found that 99.5 percent of patients had no severe postoperative complications..."
Wouldn't you know I'd be one of the lucky 0.5%?
