MY NEW EYE IS DETERIORIATING

I was so excited with my long distance vision after the cataract was removed from my left eye and a new monofocal lens installed.

Until about two weeks after surgery, when my eyesight in my left eye was not as powerful as it had been.  October 30 was my first month check up and there was much checking of my vision.  When the 12-year-old surgeon (with her Stanford medical degree) entered the mix, I complained about not being able to see as far as I would like.  I'd like to be able to drive without glasses.

She asked if I would like a stronger lens for my right eye (which isn't being done until December).  I don't think my brain can handle two different powers, which is why I didn't choose one eye for close up and one eye for distance.  I don't mind reading glasses or computer distance glasses.  Which is what I explained to her again.  But mostly I would like to be free of specs for the first time since third grade.

Last Monday I went to a restaurant where you order from a giant chalkboard.  I could not read the board with either eye.  As soon as I returned home, I called the eye specialist's office to ask what my vision was in my new left eye.  After a few back and forth phone calls, the surgeon would like to see me tomorrow (Veteran's day).

I wasn't expecting 20/20 (which surely is possible in the year 2020!) but I was expecting better than this.  Driving is especially difficult ... I had to get out my glasses with just one lens in for my bad right eye ... then closed my "good" eye.

It's not safe for me to drive (also hard to walk with no depth perception) so now my daughter drives me around.  I've had to put myself on leave from WLLO volunteer driving indefinitely.  She and the family are at the beach for the long weekend, so I had to ask WLLO for a ride to and from the eye clinic tomorrow.

Either the lens has moved out of place or she put in the wrong prescription lens.  We've had a huge blast of pollen this past week so maybe the pressure in my eye has changed.

IF she has to change the lens (or reposition) I'm going to BEG that she do both eyes at the same time.