My big sister (86) and my friend across the road (in her 70's) have had the op without any problems, the main thing is to take care afterwards.
I'm 80 and my optician was warning me that I have cateracts, but not enough to be a worry for a couple of years, and said its better than going to the dentists!
Fate took a hand on the night of 2/3 March, when I had an RAO (Retinal Artery Occlusion, an eye stroke), this has left me with severe double vision in my right eye, as I have lost two of the muscles in it. I was prescribed a Fresnel prism lens, which helps tremendously, but still have several issues. After my first two appointments in hospital, all further booking were cancelled due to the present situtaion. The surgeon told me to stop driving, and notify the DVLA, and I need to take a DVLA sight test before I can drive again, and at present they are not carrying them out, not sure sure if I will pass the test anyway, when they tested my periphal vision in hospital, a light came on and you point at it, my wife says I missing by miles!
I did get a phone call from the Orthopist last Monday to see how I was getting on, one of my problems is that the brighter it is, the less colour and definition I can see, turns out thats probably my existing cataracts! Anyway on Tuesday I am having a video consultaion over the internet with her, hopefully I might find more out then!
Then by the time this is sorted, looks like I will be having the cateract op!