Belated Happy Christmas and hope you all have a wonderful New Year!

How was the procedure?

My father had them done 25 years ago. He said he was sitting in the surgery chatting to the staff, he asked 'When are you going to start?' and they said, 'We've finished.' He couldn't remember having the anaesthetic or anything about the procedure.

After a lot of waiting around, some prep work with iv's, eyedrops and so forth, they wheeled me in, dosed me with a mild sedative, shone bright lights in my face for a few minutes, then it was over except for some coaching and I went home on public transit. Vision out of the new lens was blurry at first but that cleared up pretty quickly, and now I can see more clearly out of the eye than I can ever remember. Very little pain or discomfort. Bright lights a bit more annoying, but tolerable. Now I'm on a multi-eyedrop regime for a few weeks.

My gran was told not to vacuum for a few weeks after. Hope that won't be a problem for you :)

I've been taking it easy -ish. Really enjoying the improved vision, yesterday we went to Allen Gardens, colours were amazing. I hadn't known cataracts impart a colour cast as well as blur.

I'm the vacuum-wrangler, seeings how Mrs.D has arthritis, and our vacuum is a beast. A hoover, as it happens. Our apartment hasn't been hoovered for a few weeks, not because I couldn't do it, but because I'm lazy AF, and it's been a great excuse not to. Ok, I did hoover once.

Anyhoo, Santa did the other eye yesterday, and now I'm perched with my 7" tablet, a pair of drugstore reading glasses, and better vision than I've had in quite a while. The eye is a bit red, like I've been smoking up. Who would notice?