After a
failed cataract surgery/ Carlos Pueblo
Two weeks
ago, I went to a failed cataract procedure, the eye surgeon
recommended me
visit another eye surgeon in the medical center area
for another
procedure. The second procedure was done four days later
and was a
better one. The surgeon cleaned the remaining fragment and
the
artificial lens placed after the first procedure. The doctor is very pleased
that my left
eye is recovering well after a second visit in a week after the
procedure.
What is wrong with my first procedure?
When the
first surgeon attempted to remove the cataract, the original lens,
He ran into
a liquid portion of the cataract and it could not be cleaned by his
Equipment;
therefore, he placed a new artificial lens and closed the procedure.
I could see
a thin layer of cataract on my lens, like put a semi clear grocery bag
on my head
and look through the bag. I also felt a
small piece on my upper
part of left
eye, which was a piece of that liquid cataract. The first doctor indicated
that
fragment might slip to the bottom of the eye; therefore, a second procedure
should be
done within a week. Actually, the second surgeon got it done in four
days.
In addition
to clean up the fragment, he put bubbles into the eye to stabilize the
retina. Each
time of my visit, he and his nurse always ask me where is the bubble line.
The said
that the line would gradually come down and disappear. At present, I see
That line is
in the middle of my eye, when I look down the line changed to be a circle
about my
lens size. I shall recover my vision only after the bubble line come down and
disappear.
Because of
these two cataract procedures, I go on to check on what is cataract removal.
Actually,
the cataract is the natural lens in our eye, it may grow cloudy when we get in
years. I
have had my right eye cataract removed in my late 40’s or early 50’s. It was a
very simple
procedure without any complication. My home medical guide points out
the
procedure existed in India more than three thousand years ago. Cataract is one
of
the reason
caused a man’s blindness. In that old guide book, there were about 50,000
procedures
done annually in the U.S. The procedure is very simple, the eye surgeon
would shake
off the old cataract and replace a new lens. This surgery reminds me my
old dog
friends, some of them, I can see their cataract cloud clearly by my bare eyes.
The only
problem is the dog has no Medicare or any sort of health insurance. I did see
one procedure
done to a female wolf in the Yellowstone National Park.
