Cataract surgery

-

My mum has been following up with the ophthalmologist until one day he finally recommended surgery to remove the cataract, unlike previously where he just asked us to consider.

First hurdle was the specialist's concern over mum's heart condition. Fortunately, my mum came across a medical result of either an echocardiogram or the holter that apparently satisfied him.

The surgery was scheduled at 11am. She could only have oat (no other food or drinks, except water of course) before that. As instructed, we arrived at 10.45am where they conducted a RTK Covid-19 test, thankfully negative, and got me to sign as witness to two forms before leaving her to their care (due to Covid-19, no carer was allowed in).

I picked her up at around 1.30pm after receiving her call. I didn't receive call from staff, as supposed to be, due to a little misunderstanding: upon seeing my mum with her phone, they thought she was calling me and evidently didn't understand her when she asked them to go ahead to call me, as per earlier agreement. Staff gave us a list of do's and don't's

Although the sight of my mum with an eyeshield securely positioning cotton gauze over her right eye and some blood on her mask was a little disturbing, my mum felt ok. She said it was only a little painful during the surgery but it wasn't scary at all. It was blurry during the procedure. She could go on with her daily routine, including looking after our four-legged brother.

The next day, I brought her back to the clinic for follow-up at 9.15am and picked her back up just over an hour later. The eyeshield and cotton gauze was gone (but they gave her the eye shield) and so we could see her right eye. Despite it being reddish, she said that her vision was the same as pre-surgery. Later she clarified that it was better than before because the slight blurriness was gone too.

Phew! I'm so thankful that it went well. Hopefully the surgery on her left eye, scheduled a little over a month later, will go just as well too.

Comments

William said…
Follow-up also cannot accompany, can't hear what the doctor says.
December 2, 2021 at 6:24 PM
Jaded Jeremy said…
William,
Ya lor. I have to trust that my mum got it all and understood them.
December 4, 2021 at 11:34 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark - character build (Part 1)

-
Here are the character builds for my current run (with the help of Ban): Kyrie Fellblade/Marked Counter: Slow Secondary passives: Execute, Life Font Fellblade itself is a good class because of the various conditions it can inflict and most importantly they can inflict Sleep. Iirc, the only other human class that can do this is Gadgeteer. Their passive Malice increases the chance of landing it by 10%. Fellblade pairs well with Marked because both use ATK and MND in their offensive abilities. Also, Fellblade's abilities are mostly short range whereas Marked has some long range abilities. Execute for more damage. Life Font is for suvivability. Ban opined that with two healers, there's no need for Life Font but I discover that it enables Kyrie to survive just enough for a healer to heal her up, after having received massive damage. Ban advocated for Marked/Fellblade for superior Speed (1.00 vs 0.92) and defense (heavy armor). I resisted this for a long time because I
Read more

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark - character build (Part 2)

-
(continue from Part 1 ) Yates Anatomist/Wizard Counter: Cripple Secondary passives: Blessed One, Smart Casting Anatomist is the best healer in game due to the passive Legendary Healer, which also then boost the amount of self-healing by Blessed One. Although Ban thinks Anatomist's Dark spells are sufficient in dealing damage and so he suggests Alchemyst as Yate's secondary class, I choose Wizard for the following reasons: Quite often, demonic creatures have Dark immunity and other creatures have immunity to other elements. So having Dark, Water, Fire, Earth and Thunder spells enable Yates to cast the most suitable spell, especially when the enemies are vulnerable to certain elements. Flexible casting :) Smart Casting is useful so that I don't need to worry much about the positioning of the enemies relative to my other characters when using Mass Healing and the area effect damage spells. As stated in previous post , there "are so many devastating Skill ba
Read more

Sudden lower body pain

-
About two weeks ago, my mum developed pain in her pelvic bone, much more on the right side, and squeezing pain in her legs, with occassional spike in pain. She was managing it with paracetamols, 2 tabs three times daily.  Since we didn't know any particular orthopedist in private hospitals (it was only recently that I remember Dr Prashant ), I targeted one at KPJ Penang Specialist Hospital since it's in mainland Penang (instead of on the island). I made appointment for my mum with Dr Joehaimey since he has the earliest suitable date. The moment she walked through his door, he immediately asked her whether the pain from her right side. We were both quite impressed. He was in turn impressed with mum's prepared list of medication that she presented to him on a piece of paper. The key information seems to be the surgery she had back in 2011 to insert titanium plate and screws in her lower spine. He guessed that there's accumalated wear and tear due to aging. So to confirm i
Read more