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joyce's Cancer Blog
June 10, 2008
| Cataract Surgery Update | Views: 217 |
Hello, my wonderful friends, THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS. Everything went very well yesterday. It was easy and quick. It took much longer for them to get me ready than it did for the surgery. I think the surgery took about 20 minutes. I was awake and heard them talking and knew they were working in my eye but I felt no pain either during the surgery or afterwards. I think it is amazing that they can do things like that without any pain at all. I can see a little better but the doctor says my sight will keep improving in the next 3 to 4 weeks.
Yes, the eye drops are a pain, especially 4 times a day, but that is only for 1 week for 2 of them and the antibiotic will be for 2 weeks. Having to use drops doesn’t really bother me because I have been using them for two years … just not 4 times a day … just at bedtime. I also have glacoma and I will have to use those drops probably the rest of my life. That is, unless they find a cure for it.
I don’t think the chemo caused the cataracts. A good portion of older people have them. If I understand correctly what I was told, the cataracts could have been caused by the Tamoxifen that I took for 5 years (1994-1999) after my first breast cancer. I first learned that I had cataracts in the early part of the 2000’s and they have gradually gotton worse over the years. My eyes have gotton much worse and the glacoma came along within the last 2 years. I have a cataract in the left eye also and my doc said I might need to have it done within the next month or so.
AGAIN, LET ME SAY THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT MY PRAYERS WILL BE WITH ALL OF YOU EVERY DAY BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN THERE AND I DO UNDERSTAND.
Love to all,
Joyce
08.16.08 - 
Thanks for your support -
Great news Joyce. Glad things went well.