The Mist

Around last Autumn sometime, I noticed a change in my vision.
I have a trace cataract in my left eye- it has been there for years and has been deemed "clinically insignificant".

But I haven't been seeing properly, and the vision is different in my left and right eyes.
Basically, I'm looking through a fog.

I'm ok in bright light but diffused or low light situations are a real challenge.
In restaurants I can't see the face of the person sitting right across from me.

So I went to the eye doctor and my cataract has rapidly grown over the last several months. This can happen. Cataracts can be unchanging for years, then suddenly get bad very quickly.

My eye doctor said I have two options:  do surgery now or do surgery later, like in a year.

I'm just going to get it over with.  This fog is hard to live with and no matter what, I'll have to go through the same ordeal.

Youth is on my side!! I'm super-young to have this surgery.
My new lens will be a corrective lens inside my eye and I won't need a contact lens.

The crappy and difficult part is that I cannot wear my contact lenses for a month before surgery.
Because I wear hard lenses, the shape of my eye is changed from its natural state.  So my eyes have to go back to "normal", which they have not been since I was 13 years old after my retina surgery.
(I have been in hard contacts since I was 11.)
Dr Young said 'You're really going to hate this; it will drive you crazy." He's right.
I don't see very well out of my glasses.

Surgery is scheduled for Aug 5th.
One month of glasses.
One month.
Short-term.

I can do this.