Important to Know All the Requirements For Cataract Surgery So this Will Not Happen to You!

I was scheduled for Cataract Surgery on March 2, 2023. I was very well prepared and had asked many questions and read all the handouts and documents given by my HMO. There is a standard rule that you have to check into the surgery with a responsible person who will pick you up from the surgery. Since I am single and did not wish to bother friends and neighbors I hired a very efficient transport company to serve as the required responsible person and would pick me up, check in with me and pick me up after surgery.

Everything was going as planned at check in until a nurse came out and asked if I had a responsible person who would be in my home that night since I was planning on having a mild sedative IV (versed).

I SAID WHAT? ...... I had never seen this information written anywhere or heard it before after about a month of planning for this surgery!! .....I was in shock, to say the least! I had to turn around, go home and cancel the surgery!

I hope everyone who reads this will be better prepared than I was! Even if you read all of the documents and have several discussions with your doctor prior to surgery you might not have been supplied an important piece of information which could cause a CALAMITY like what happened to me today!

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