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Cataract surgery 2023-11-23 Person 5 5 0

I am 79 and have birth problems that left me with glasses from the age of 4. I was recommended for cataract surgery by my optician, Specsavers in Cowley Centre, East Oxford. The reception was fraternal and the actual operation, starting with my left and weakest eye, which I expected to be painful, was almost entirely painless. No more than a three second poke as the lens was inserted. The immediate after-op care was reassuring and I was able to take the bus back to Oxford quite safely alone. Within two days I could see remarkably well from my left. The blur was caused by my eye being able to see better than it has ever worked and my spectacle lens was interfering. From never having been able to see properly with my left eye, I could read the subtitles on TV! Within 2 days I had a call from the department to check on my health and was able to report I had used the anti-inflammatory drops as directed and had no bloodshot eye and no "grit in the eye" feeling. I was advised to see my optician and have the left lens popped from my specs, which I will do tomorrow. It could be that after a life of high prescriptive lenses, once I have had the right eye attended I might only need light t reading glasses. As I attended with patients as old as 92, I would recommend the treatment to anybody advised to undergo treatment. Best twenty minutes surgery - I was in the military for 20 years. I cannot speak highly enough of the Eye section in Cherwell hospital.