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Better than being blind. My dad had been just letting his cataracts go, since he's the stereotypical stubborn person who doesn't like to go to the doctor till

Better than being blind. My dad had been just letting his cataracts go, since he's the stereotypical stubborn person who doesn't like to go to the doctor till it's too late. So, one morning he woke up and panicked because he was effectively blind. He somehow managed to get a hold of my sister (I was away from home; she lived in the same neighborhood luckily) who helped him get an appointment for LASIK. Long story short, he ended up with nearly 20/20 vision afterwards.

woofyman 10y ago
Huh? LASIK isn't a treatment for cataracts. The surgeon removes the lense and implants an artificial one. https://www.aao.org/eye-health/diseases/what-is-cataract-surgery https://www.aao.org/eye-health/diseases/what-is-cataract-sur...
- RandomInteger4 10y ago
  Well, fuck. I stand corrected. My Dad says shit that he makes up in his own head by reinterpreting what others have told him and I just believe him without bothering to verify unless I know it's incorrect; and even then sometimes I just don't bother. For instance, in this case he probably saw or heard the term LASIK so much by advertising that it just stuck in his head and he glazed over whatever the doctors were telling him when he went in, and he's been repeating that same thing ever since. I believed him, because I don't have eye problems and was never curious enough to look further. Shame on me.
  - Grishnakh 10y ago
    What your dad got is an IOL: intraocular lens. These things are pretty amazing these days; they can correct myopia and astigmatism, eliminate cataracts, and eliminate the need for reading glasses too because the new lens is focus-able (in the ones that are "accommodating"). I'm thinking of getting these in 5-10 years, since I'm just starting to have problems with reading now; by that time, new artificial lenses will be a perfect solution to my eyesight problems I can expect to have at that age. Your dad sounds like one of these annoying non-technical people who hears one technical term (e.g. LASIK) and then applies that in blanket fashion to anything remotely related. He probably calls Android phones "iPhones", and he probably calls laptop computers "iPads", and he probably calls the Internet "AOL".
    - RandomInteger4 10y ago
      Lmao, yeah, that second paragraph is spot on.

woofyman 10y ago

Huh? LASIK isn't a treatment for cataracts. The surgeon removes the lense and implants an artificial one. https://www.aao.org/eye-health/diseases/what-is-cataract-surgery https://www.aao.org/eye-health/diseases/what-is-cataract-sur...

RandomInteger4 10y ago
Well, fuck. I stand corrected. My Dad says shit that he makes up in his own head by reinterpreting what others have told him and I just believe him without bothering to verify unless I know it's incorrect; and even then sometimes I just don't bother. For instance, in this case he probably saw or heard the term LASIK so much by advertising that it just stuck in his head and he glazed over whatever the doctors were telling him when he went in, and he's been repeating that same thing ever since. I believed him, because I don't have eye problems and was never curious enough to look further. Shame on me.
- Grishnakh 10y ago
  What your dad got is an IOL: intraocular lens. These things are pretty amazing these days; they can correct myopia and astigmatism, eliminate cataracts, and eliminate the need for reading glasses too because the new lens is focus-able (in the ones that are "accommodating"). I'm thinking of getting these in 5-10 years, since I'm just starting to have problems with reading now; by that time, new artificial lenses will be a perfect solution to my eyesight problems I can expect to have at that age. Your dad sounds like one of these annoying non-technical people who hears one technical term (e.g. LASIK) and then applies that in blanket fashion to anything remotely related. He probably calls Android phones "iPhones", and he probably calls laptop computers "iPads", and he probably calls the Internet "AOL".
  - RandomInteger4 10y ago
    Lmao, yeah, that second paragraph is spot on.