[sammyg2]

Many moons ago I had small metal fragments removed from both eyes after a small explosion at work. The ER doc said no biggie, it ain't that bad. Go see an eye doc on Monday. Here's a prescription for eye drops. That was on Saturday.
The metal shards were small and weren't that painful at first but that changed over the next day. The eye surgeon was pissed that the ER doc who diagnosed the problem didn't notice that the metal bits were rusty and were staining the tissue around them.
The opthadoc said that on a good vs. bad scale, rusty metal in your eyes is way down at the bottom right next to bad. And infection had started.
He did the surgery while I was awake. It was kinda freaky but not unpleasant.
My eyes were wrapped for about 5 days IIRC, couldn't see anything till they took the bandages off. Everything was fine after but vision was just a tad off. Just enough to be noticeable. I had great vision before but was just good afterwards.
No problems since except started wearing reading glasses around age 45.

But over the last year or so, I started noticing that I had trouble seeing in low-light conditions. I'd turn on lights to see when before I didn't need do.
Colors were not as bright, it was as if I was looking through a filter.

In October I went for an eye exam and the doc said yep, cataracts in both eyes.
But he said I prolly won't require surgery for a few years so I got that to look forward to.