Feeling nervous about my Cataract operation

Hi Sukes, I'd like to tell you about my cataract operation, I reside in the northern part of Italy, I' have known my eye doctor who also operated me, for 15 years. 

He first mentioned the word cataract to me I think, 7 years or so ago, that's when he first spotted it., said it was too early for operation, and he would keep an eye on it during my periodic annual visit.  I wore multifocal eye glasses  right along that time, About 16 months ago, I realzied that my cataract was bothering me as I kept cleaning my eye glasses but still faild to have a clear vision, yet I dragged on, dreading the operation. unitl 80 days ago, I had my right eye operated for cataract, not that my left eye is clear of cataract, but my right eye is the dominant one, so I had it operated first. 

So there I was in the clinic, sitting in the waiting room with the operating gown on (they showed me to the locker room, gave me a disposal gown, disposal hair cap, disposal shoe covers), a key to lock my personal belongings in a locker, and I put the key in the tiny pocket on the front of the gown.

While waiting, they put the tinest pill inside my lower eyelid, so tiny that I thought it was an eye drop, it was not,  it actually worked as a local anesthetic, then they put drops and drops again to my eye to dilate the pupil (I have the tinest pupil, so they say). After a bit less than an hour, they put me on the operation table, another nurse put an elastic band on my lower left arm, tighten it and injected me with something that makes my drowsy, too drowsy to realized that they wheeled me into the operation theatre, I vaguely heard voices, but distinctly aware of bright light very near to my eye, heard some peeping sound as the light moved around my eye for about , I think, 10 minutes, then I felt as if they put  a couple of drops of ice water near my eye, some more minutes passed and I heard my doc said "all done". I felt I was being wheeled to some where, in fact I was back to the where they first put me on the operation table, a nurse told me to get up slowly, I got up, when to change back to my clothes in the locker room, there I saw  in the mirror my eye was bandaged. I felt no pain, no dizziness, actually I left the clinic, walked into a drug store acroos the street to get some clean bandage in case I needed some, then I was dirven home.

The next moring (it was a Sunday), I took the bandage off myself as instructed by the doctor, I saw my upper eyelid drooped a little, a spot of my lower eyelid was red, I gently cleaned around my eye with luke warm water, put eye drops into my eye as instructed, on that morning I saw flashes of light at the far end corner of my eye, I turned on the tv, vow, the colors were so distinct, red was crimson red, black was the darkest black! picked up my smartphone and actually read all the small letters without my glasses, I was in awe of the result of the operation, I have an bionic eye (he,he).

Of course there were drops to put into my eye for a month, and for the first 3 days I also took antibiotic tablets, after op. discomfort was bearable and it is not totally

 gone yet 80 days after, in fact other discomforts set in, like watery eye, negative dysfotopsia, but all in all, the positive outplays the negative,  I now play tennis, drive,watch tv, write on my smartphones  without eyeglasses (even with the left eye yet to be operated). 30 days after the operation, my doctor prescribed me glasses, one pair for long sight, one pair for short sight, I only wear them when I engage myself in reading long hours, or driving long hours. I presume when I'll have my left eye operated, I will do even less them with glasses. 

Hope my story helps, Sukes. all the best.