ut my glasses." She has a pair of reading glasses to read the fine print, but says "I have really good sightfor being 81 years old almost 82." She reported to Dr. Fry's office the day before thesurgery and they gave her drops to put in that night. She stayed in a motel in Garden Cityand went in the next day for surgery. She went for a postoperative check-up with hersurgeon, Dr. Fry, one day following surgery. She cheerfully said, "now I am one in sixhundred members of "The Cataract Club," which has a convention for follow-upinformation for us once a year in Garden City, Kansas."Medical TreatmentThere are many different types of treatment for cataracts, but some have proven tobe more affective than others. As you grow older, you need more light, whether you havevision problems or not (Larson, 1996). Different types of eyeglasses such as bifocals ortrifocals that are stronger than normal may better help an elderly person to see in the earlystages of cataracts. There are also many magnifiers that come in many different stylesthese can be hand-held, freestanding, mounted on a headband, or worn around the neck. Everything from magnifiers to items such as clocks, telephones, playing cards that haveextra large letters or numbers, and large size game boards are available from mail ordercatalogs and stores throughout the United States (Larson, 1996). Cataract surgery is really considered to be the best of all treatments. Before apatient can have this surgery their eye physician and surgeon should have concurrentlyagreed that this is medically possible for that particular patient. The patients eye will bemeasured to determine the proper power of the intraocular lens that will be placed in theireye during surgery (American Academy of Ophthalmology, 5). The day of surgery thepatient is brought in on an outpatient basis. They are then given eye drops, andmedication to help them relax. A local anesthetic makes the operation painless. Th...
