After Cataract Surgery

My husband has never had surgery. He is blessed. He was also a general/vascular surgeon and oftentimes knows too much. After having the left cataract removed with laser treatment yesterday, we needed to go back over to the doctor office from the outpatient surgery center to get a check on how things went. All I can remember is drops, drops, and more drops. He also had a patch over his eye which made walking and depth perception inadequate. He doesn’t remember getting the light anesthesia cocktail either. When we got home we had a light lunch and he took a nap immediately - but he always does in the afternoon. The problem now is that he doesn’t have the right glasses, really can’t see out of the left eye well yet, and needs to wear sunglasses - something he has always refused to do. Thankfully he has had no pain and slept well last night. I made sure his eye guard was secure -  and he’ll need to wear it at night for a few more days. This morning his eye is bloody, but he has no pain. We are going to go through this in two weeks again for the other eye. Since January we have had so many eye and pre op appointments and filling in forms and paying for lenses, doctor and outpatient and anesthesia and lab bills.... how do people afford this stuff? In the meantime my dear mother passed away two weeks ago today and the trip to Florida and back feels so long ago. Twenty twenty has not started out well for us. It can only get better? Just don’t turn on the news.