General Natter Room

[Daisy]

Good news! I hope all goes well for you.

[Chrissie777]

All the bureaucratic hoops have been crawled through, so old Aurélien's second cataract operation has, at long last, been given a date......this coming Monday, April 10th. 'Aurélien Arkadiusz'

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you that all will go well, Aurélien!!!

[Aurélien]

Thanks, folks. I'm practising crossing my toes as well as my fingers - but not my eyes.

'Aurélien Arkadiusz'

[Anita Bensoussane]

That's good, Aurélien! Hope all goes well with the operation.

[Daisy]

Take care... there are limits! (referring to your comment Aurélien)

[joanne_chan]

Paws crossed for you that the operation goes well, Aurélien.

[Rob Houghton]

Hope it all goes well! My dad had a cataract operation a few years ago - and now has a 'bionic eye'

[sixret]

Hope your operation will go well. Let us know the good news later!

[Eddie Muir]

Great news, Aurélien. I hope all goes well on 10th April.

[Lucky Star]

Great news Aurelian. I'm sure it will all go swimmingly.

[Aurélien]

Your best wishes are much appreciated, folks.

Luckily the operation only very rarely goes wrong and, as I found out when my first eye was 'done', 'tis far less gruesome to experience than reading about it on-line beforehand suggested.....

'Aurélien Arkadiusz'

[Chrissie777]

...'tis far less gruesome to experience than reading about it on-line beforehand suggested.....Aurélien Arkadiusz'

My glaucoma specialist promised me that I could get anesthesia and not experience the entire eye surgery if I'll ever have to have one. My grandmother had eye surgery and it traumatized her (and me, after she told me all the gory details!) for the rest of her life that the eye surgeon put a syringe into her eye. I don't think I want to go through that.

[Aurélien]

Yes, Chrissie, that was indeed the most uncomfortable part of the procedure the first time around.

Of course, it is possible, as you suggest, to have cataract surgery done under a general anaesthetic (ie while the patient is unconscious), and for some people this might well be the best approach.

'Aurélien Arkadiusz'

[Chrissie777]

I really admire your courage, Aurélien! I'm too afraid to have it done without general anaesthetic.

[Fiona1986]

Not to throw flames on the fire but the after effects of an anaesthesia given for eye surgery can be quite bad. I never fully understood why, though! When I was a student on a children's day surgery ward the eye surgeries were booked in for set afternoons and we could only have so many (ten or twelve beds but only around four patients unless there was an emergency) and we had to keep it dark and quiet when they came back from their ops. Something about eye ops under GA made them very upset, confused and hard to settle.

And of course a GA comes with much higher risks to the patient in general - but you couldn't expect a child of 5 or 6 to have a squint corrected without one.