[tdw28210]

Yeah, been there at a fairly early age. Never wore glasses until about 3 years ago. So started using readers,..comes with territory. anyway, i start thinking/feeling I have an eyelash in my right eye. Like CONSTANTLY. I mention it to my optometrist during my check up last December. She looks into the eye and says I have a cataract. WTF? I can see fine, I just have a black slash across my right field of vision. She goes on to say it is a trauma-induced cataract likely from some kind of sports injury or maybe a fight. It's relatively fast growing and should be addressed soon. Yeah, so I played sports (football, basketball and some baseball). A couple fights, but usually while I was playing one of the above sports. Never got punched in the eye but did break my nose three times. However, I DID get a super nasty shiner when I was on a horse, galloping across a field when I was like 14.

BACKSTORY: I was with my crazy Uncle Steve. As we were streaking across the field on these two rather large horses, my saddle starts to let go and I start falling off the horse. I reach for the horse's neck and my uncle sees what is happening and reaches out and grabs the bridle on my horse and yanks the **** out of it. The horse puts all 4 hooves into stop mode and I go flying. The right side of my face smacks the absolute **** out of the back of the horse's jawbone. I am now in the dirt and damn near knocked out. Crazy Uncle Steve is laughing at this point. He gets off his horse, cinches the **** out of the belly strap on my horse's saddle and tells me to get back on. I do (reluctantly) and when get back to the house.

By this time my face is staring to hurt even more. Don't think we thought to put ice on it right away, but by later than night it is starting to hurt pretty badly. CUS grabs something frozen out his freezer and I stick it on my face. By noon the next day I look like I took a bat to my right eye socket. Black and blue and my eye looks like smoked all of Steve's stash. Yeah it hurt like hell, but pretty sure I got a couple beers out of the whole ordeal.

Anyway,had the surgery in June of this year. It was a little freaky with the COVID but I got through it. I had some sort of "torque lens" installed. I can't say I had an immediate improvement because my cataract was sort of unique and only affected a very small part of my field of vision. But It has gotten noticeably better over time. And holy **** did I put a ton of prescription drops in my right eye in the following weeks. Anyway glad I did it, but would have preferred to do it when there wasn't a pandemic going on. Don't remember a thing about the actual procedure.

Good luck with your procedure.