Keep close tabs on your vision for the next year or so. Following cataract surgery a couple of years ago, I developed scar tissue build up behind the new lenses. About a year after the lense replacement, my vision degraded to the point where I was unable to read any part of the eye chart and could no longer read the GPS or see traffic. My vision was much worse than it had been with cataracts and I had to temporarily ground myself. It was a simple laser surgery to break up the scarring with about a 1 day recovery. Roughly 30% of cataract surgery patients develop scarring that requires the laser surgery to correct.
-Jeff Scott
Arkansas Ozarks
I want to follow up on my post cataract surgery this past week. The interest of this update is how it affects your flying. I let this desease go untreated to
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the point that I developed double vision. I could not drive safely, let alone fly.
I have now completed my second surgery and I am amazed at the results. I now have 20/20 vision and my vision has returned to normal. If you have been diagnosed with this desease, don’t let it ground you. The procedure is only 15 minutes long on each eye and there is no pain related to it. Expect at least a week or so between procedures.
Take care
Luis R Claudio
N8981S
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