Second Eye Surgery Tuesday

I just wanted to put up a note letting people know the status of my vision issues.

As you may know, I had cataract surgery on my right eye a month ago, and the results were excellent. I went from legally blind to 20/20 vision (i.e., normal vision, not perfect vision) in less than a day. (In fact, as soon as they put in my new lens, as far as I can tell.)

Now it is time for surgery on my left eye.

I will be having that done Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. Pacific.

The procedure is expected to take about 20-30 minutes.

I very much appreciate all the prayers people have said for me and my vision, and I would like to request them once again.

The surgery itself should go fine. Cataract surgery is very safe and effective today.

But because of factors particular to my case, there is a non-trivial chance that I will end up with double vision.

When I asked the surgeon what the odds are, he said he couldn’t tell and assigned the odds at “fifty-fifty,” though I hope that he was being medically cautious in that.

If I do end up with double vision, it may be temporary or permanent.

If permanent, it may require treatment by wearing special glasses or by surgery on the muscles around my eye, which would require a different kind of specialist.

On the other hand, when the left eye comes back online, my brain may say, “Hey! New data! Great! Let’s match this up in 3-D!”

In that case I’ll have the wonders of depth perception again.

I’m very much hoping for the latter outcome, and so I would very much appreciate your prayers.

A profound thank you to all in advance.

I’ll let you know how it goes.

20 thoughts on “Second Eye Surgery Tuesday”

  1. you have my prayers. that is scary. Today is the feast day of Divine Love– will pray to Our lord for you.

  3. I’ll be continuing my prayers for you, Jimmy.  And I appreciate your prayers for me.  I had my second cataract surgery last Wednesday, and everything went fine.

  7.  God’s Blessings be upon you during your eye surgery for all the good work you have done for Catholic Answers and on your website, etc. As a beginning catholic I have found your resources to be enlightening and inspiring. Keep it up and I will continue to follow along! It is inspiring to think you have done all this with less than normal vision. It gives it all an extra meritorious quality of the supernatural that it wouldn’t otherwise have.

  8.  God’s Blessings be upon you during your eye surgery for all the good work you have done for Catholic Answers and on your website, etc. As a beginning catholic I have found your resources to be enlightening and inspiring. Keep it up and I will continue to follow along! It is inspiring to think you have done all this with less than normal vision. It gives it all an extra meritorious quality of the supernatural that it wouldn’t otherwise have.

  9. I am praying for you and wishing you a successful outcome on the operation.  It’s only 20 minutes but will no doubt be life changing for you.  Looking forward to reading your next blogs which mean a great deal to me.  God Bless.

  10. You are going to have a great outcome! I’m with the many others who are praying for you. Blessings.

  12. Jimmy, I hope you had the chance to choose an uncompensated cornea over a compensated artificial cornea lens.  I chose uncompensated lens to reduce possibilities like what you said about the double vision (and other possibilities).  I would rather wear eye glasses later and to avoid returning to the surgeon for followup surgery.  Besides the uncompensated is already a corrected lens for a large segment of the population.  A compensated one requires possible correction by eyeglasses as time goes. As it stands, I now wear new glasses with much lower power and appreciate my blessings.  Prayers continuing.

  13. Prayers for you. I had my left eye done with artificial cornea Sept 27th last year. My right eye still holding on.

  18. Prayers are on their way.  
     
    If your calling in life includes double vision, you could resort to a pirate’s eye patch — and you could really mess up associates by switching from one side to the other on alternate days.  Plus there’s the prospect of having a parrott and talking like a pirate as optional accessories.

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