This is what my life will look like for the next month or so. At least I learned a new word: un collyre. The Collins-Robert French-English, English-French dictionary translates collyre as "eye lotion" or "collyrium". When I look up collyre on the French-language Wikipédia site and then call up the English-language version of the article, I get this page about eye drops. So that's it. Collyres are also called gouttes ophtalmiques.
I have at least four different kinds of eyedrops that I need to use before and after I have cataract surgery on Tuesday morning. Some are to be "instilled" (Fr. instiller) into the eye that is going to be or has been operated on. My second cataract surgery (on the other eye) is scheduled for June 25. Drops will be needed for three or four weeks after the operation. Well into July, then.
Going on what Pauline said, her eyesight was 200% improved after the second one was done.... but they corrected her extreme shortsightedness.... and I lost my intellegent microscope!!
ReplyDeleteBut she had no problems and said the operation itself was "nae prawblem" either time!!
Good luck!!
Thanks, Tim and Pauline. I'm looking forward to seeing clearly for the first time in my life. By the way, it's funny how your "nae prawblem" sounds like the way somebody on the North Carolina coast would say that. I think my family's ancestors came mostly from northern England, and since the area was remote the old dialect didn't, until recently, change much. The area is not remote any more.
DeleteI think you have a few more drops than I had. The doctor put a clear patch over my eye which was very nice and I could see out of my operated eye right away.
ReplyDeleteI think I've got the drops under control now, with Walt's help. As MA used to say, things are looking up. (I have to be looking up to actually get the drops to fall on my eyeball and not on my cheek.)
DeleteMeant this comment for Joanna but I'd say the same thing to you.
DeleteThats a lot of boxes. They only give 2 eyedrops here. Everything will be fine.
ReplyDeleteI think I've got the drops under control now, with Walt's help. As MA used to say, things are looking up. (I have to be looking up to actually get the drops to fall on my eyeball and not on my cheek.)
DeleteLucky you could get an appointment for surgery relatively quickly. I just finished with annual eye exam & I need cateracts done too. The appointment just to "measure" the eye isn't until around Labor day!
ReplyDeleteI started the process in March and it should be all done by the end of June, with some recovery time.
DeleteAll the best for the operation (best thing I ever did - almost!). I don't recall much of a regime of drops beforehand, just two to be taken at 15 minutes intervals on the day (but everyone's different, I suppose). The after-op regime was a bit tedious, with different schedules for three different sets of drops, but it all worked out OK.
ReplyDeleteThe drops are the worst thing about the operation, and that is more annoying that bad.
ReplyDeleteYes, annoying but that's survivable.
DeleteI'm glad for you to be getting this done :)
ReplyDeleteKen, my sister had this surgery last year. The surgeon looked like a high school student. She did a good job. My sister has had excellent results. The hard part was remembering which drops and what time. We did a whole calendar for the meds schedule. After a day or two it all runs together and it is hard to remember what we did. We used Alexis (that obnoxious lady from Amazon) to remind us of which drops and the time frame. It took all of us to help remember lol.
ReplyDeleteGood luck to you, I am sure it will be fine.
Madonna
I can relate.
DeleteCataract surgery is easy peasy. It’s the drops schedule that is the pain. Stop stressing, Ken. ;)
ReplyDeleteBettyAnn
Wish I could.
DeleteFor those of you considering cataract surgery you might look for a Doctor who performs "dropless" surgery. My wife and I both had it and it worked fine. The required medication is actually inserted into your eyeball during surgery so that the patient doesn't need to do drops themselves. Since the medication is put into the eye far less of it is needed.
ReplyDeleteAre you in the U.S.? It might be different here in France.
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