The Journey For Vision!

Chris has cataracts.  He's known this now since around the end of September but the surgery route seems like such a long process to go through.   To get rid of the cataract, you get rid of the lens that was in your eye at birth.  Cataracts obscure and cloud the vision; they scatter light, creating halos; they interfere with good vision.  One eye is worse that the other for Chris, but he will have both done because he is opting for prescription lens implants that will address his far and intermediate vision so that he will only have to use reading glasses in the future.  

Before surgery, he has to get his eyes measured by the latest computerized laser-using ophthalmologic device that measure all kinds of parameters for each of his eyes. The curvatures, and distances and thicknesses and every measurement possible have to be done, and unfortunately not on the same days.  Chris also has astigmatism so that also has to be calibrated.  As you can see below, we have a number of appointments behind us, but one more in January, and then hopefully he will have a surgery (15 minutes) date for February.  We will both be so glad when this is done!