My Cataract Surgery

My Cataract Surgery

The anesthetist said: “You should be able to lay on your back, not move for an hour, would you have a cataract surgery.”

“I wont be able as  my right leg hurts” I said. My daughter who is doctor said by exercising I would succeed.

I got pain killing medicine and I started to exercise. That was hell, besides, I not always can manage to lay on my back and not move for an hour.

I was so stressed, I wrote an e mail to the anesthetist, not knowing his name: saying that I can succeed to lay, not move for an hour but I can’t say that I surely could do it during the surgery.

So have my right leg anesthetized.

Or should I undergo a full anesthetizing?

As this doctor was another anesthetist who read my e mail, answered me that I should come for the surgery and talk about it.

I imagined I would come in and the doctor would make me unconscious. What, I might not awaken and see my wife and son again who looked after me. That was awful, distressing.

But when I came, this doctor didn’t talk, nothing at all about my anxiety.  I almost didn’t have to wait. I was escorted to the surgery room. The anesthetist shook my hand as welcome, “Don’t be afraid, take your clothes, and shoes off and wear the cloths for surgery. Climb on to the surgery bed, feel how nice and comfortable it is.”

He doesn’t make me “sleep”. Then I don’t know what they did, they covered my left and my right eye. I didn’t know when the surgery started.

Then I said ”why do you touch my right eye, press my nose? It’s my left eye that has the cataract.

They didn’t answer. Then after some moment, the surgeon said: “just 15 minutes more to finish.”

“I need to go to the toilet, may I pee in my pampers?”  (Thanks to my daughter, who insisted to use pampers) It is cold in the surgery room and I can’t wait that long.

“Of course.”     

I didn’t feel anything done on my left eye. Then it was over.

Praise to the doctor and his team. That was heaven after so fearing, facing hell.

February 2015

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