Dr Porter, after cataract sirgery

After the cataract surgery I had " post op " visits with Dr Porter, I kept telling him that I couldn't see very well, what was going on, he kept assuring me that maybe I had a little swelling etc, not to worry, On the last visit to his office, he finally did admit that I would never get my near vision back ( I hadn't been told that cataract surgery robs you of any vision, only that it was supposed to improve your vision ) , he never did really admit that my distant vision was far worse than it had been, but had the gall to just start talking about wanting to do another procedure on the first eye and set up a date to do the second eye!!!! I asked him was the swelling down, was there any medical reason to have to come back? He said yes, I was fine, and no, no real reason to have to come back other than scheduling the next eye. I told him since he said I was " fine " I would not be coming back, I could not see, and that I sure wasn't letting him touch my other eye. ( unfornuately, he had messed up the eye with the best vision )

I went home and cried, it has been 18 months since I have been to the Downing and McPeak office, and I still can't talk about this or even write it without tearing up, you do not realize how much you value your sight until some doctor takes it, I told you in an earlier post that I loved to read, cook and shop? Not so much anymore, I need a magnifyer to do the simplest things, I can't see the price tags on anything when I am shopping without magnifying it, I can't see a recipe to cook, and what I had loved to do since I was young was to read , mostly fiction, now it takes forever to read a simple book with magnifying glasses and can't read for very long at that because I get headaches and my eyes tire.

laugh or cry, a little humor

An Intern got called late one Friday night by a VA ward nurse to clarify an order for some drug to be delivered "AS, bid". Having never heard of the drug and no idea what the heck"AS" means, Rick asked why the patient was in the hospital. "Well, he's having a colonoscopy on Monday", the nurse replied. Rick astutely deduced that 'AS' must mean 'anal sphincter', and ordered the drug to be delivered as such.
The ENT resident came by on Monday morning to find that the patient had been getting cortisporin otic up his backside twice a day for an entire weekend. AS means "left ear".




A worried patient tells an opthalmologist Doc, I am very scared about the outcome of the operation on my left eye. What are my chances?" Grinning doctorsays " Don't worry, you'll never see the difference "