From my partially sighted husband: Prepare to be the most adaptable person you know. It will definitely be hard at first, you will have to re learn how to do a lot of things. As well, your good eye will get more strained in response to your weaker vision in the injured eye. Eye drops will be your friend there.

From me (sighted wife): Please try not to be afraid to ask for help if you need it. Most people are happy to help you. This will be hard for you if you are the type of person who hasn’t really had to do that before. Lastly, don’t worry too much, your life has changed but you will be okay, I promise. My husband has 20/200 vision in one eye and hand motion only in the other (from birth). Before we started dating he had been living independently, working, etc for close to 20 years. Basically like anyone else, except he can’t drive.

Lastly, think about therapy. It could definitely help you in your transition. And if you need to mourn the loss of vision in that eye(it is a pretty big loss), go ahead and do that, don’t deny yourself that relief, if you can.

Sorry I wrote so much! Good luck!

I'm not sure what to tell you, I've been blind since birth. It is an adjustment for sure and I wish you the best of luck.

Can’t help you, but ouch that sounds very painful. Been totally blind for 20 years, just that it’s not all over. I’ve achieved a lot in 30 years 22 of it being totally blind. You can do it.

It’s been 14years since my injury. My advice is:
1. Follow the aftercare to the letter even if it means sitting with no screen time.
2. Try to accept that it’s happened, the quicker you can the quicker you’ll adapt
3. When your more recovered you may want to use a kindle rather than print books, you can adjust font size to what you need.
4. I had to adjust all my electronics settings on brightness etc as it just was unwatchable otherwise.

If you need more advice send a DM. Good luck with your recovery

Ouch, shot in eye with nale. That brought shivers.

Hi, I'm sory you experienced such a traumatic injury, and that you're so young to have it happen. I've had cataract surgery in both eyes, it's really straightforward and they can correct your distance vision with it to some extent. I don't know how permanent that correction is, mine started getting worse again after a few years, but I've got quite a bit going sideways with my eyes. I think I asked for a prescription for Ativan to take shortly beforehand. Take any and all advice to restrict your bending and physical effort for at least a few days. after the procedure, like if they say no lifting, take that to mean nothing heavier than a box of Kleenex. If they say no bending, make sure to have slip on shoes.

Opacification, where it looks like you're in a thick fog, is a common occurence within say a month of cataract surgery. If it occurs, That can be resolved with one visit to your ophthalmalogist's office where they can do a YAG, wich is a truly painless laser treatment to cut away the membrane that became cloudy.

Aftercare is pretty basic, just apply all the drops they give you the way they tell you to. It looks a little grody but I imagine that's the least of your concerns at this point. If you have private health care coverage, one of the aftercare eyedrops (Vigamox) may be non-forumlary for your coverage and you may have a fat copay. For example, instead of a $5 copay it might be $75.

All the best to you, I hope something I said helped.

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Edited to correct my copay example, I originally typed 56 instead of 5.