@diamond-halo wrote:
@freakiness wrote:
@diamond-halo wrote:
Hate to tell you this Cat, but remember a poster from here named Leggydeferal?
She had cataract surgery done on both eyes.
It didn't work.
She now has a Guide Dog.
No, when?
Both eyes at once?
It's been a few years now, maybe 3?
She came to stay with me just after her first op about 4 years ago I think? (she had to travel from her home to here for the op, they wouldn't do it where she lives)
Both her eyes were pretty crook, they did the worst one first, but it never stabilized and then the specialist wanted to wait until it was stabilized (as they didn't know if it was going to come good or not), but the system popped out her name and she was basically told, this is when you have to have the second op, take it or leave it.
From memory they were about 12 months apart?
It was a while ago, so not entirely sure, but they weren't done together. She did have to travel down here for both ops as well as appointments inbetween.
Since when does a hospital clerk tell a specialist that the operation must be done on that date when the patient isn't up to having surgery?
If the specialist does not want to operate on a person on a given date they move the person down the list by however many weeks they think they should wait.
My mother had both cataracts done about 12 years ago and she only had a local then and it was about 3 or 4 weeks between first and second eye. Mum was told it would be about 12 months but it was only 11 months and that still seems to be the norm around here.
They don't even give you a bed in the public hospital, you sit in a chair to wait your turn and then you are in a chair after the surgery and then off home you go.
My local eye specialist practice has stopped bulk billing health care card holders and you are out of pocket after the medicare claim. (I am still being bulk billed but don't know for how much longer, but I do hope I start getting frequent flyer points or similar when I have to start putting up the cash to see the doctor)
