As those of you who've met me IRL know, I'm blind in one eye. Thus, my cataract surgery was only on the other one, of course.

The artificial lens looks like the hurricane symbol on a weather map--a circle with two little arms. Those arms are what anchor it in place in your eye.

However, it's dropped in sort of furled up to allow the to be incision smaller. Then, it pops open.

During the procedure, you're not out (so you can focus on the light mentioned earlier). A very light anesthetic--so mild, in fact, I asked them afterward if they even turned it on.

Anyway, we get to the magic moment, and I hear the doctor say, in a slightly exasperated tone, "not this patient." From the reaction of him and the staff, it was clear that something went wrong.

A few minutes later, they finished up and wheeled me out. At the follow-up the next day, I asked him what was going on there.

It turns out artificial lenses can be brittle when cold. In addition to having the first snow of that season overnight, I was one of the first patients, so the room was cool. One of the little arms broke off.

Not something common, but also not so rare they didn't know what to do. He just had to go in there, fish out the parts from try #1, and drop a new one in there. (It may have taken three tries, can't remember for sure).

Another odd thing about that visit was, after checking things out, he said "we're going to do an adjustment." I figured that meant another surgery, but no; he gave me some numbing drops, and by hand made a little nick in the cornea to change it's shape ever so slightly. While vision was good going in, it was a really noticeable difference with just that little poke.

her left eye is bionic
blind after parasites essentially plucked it from the socket like elle driver
half her sight was gone along with ten percent of her senses
so she wears a prosthetic inspired by lady bugs and northern lights

she charges it by staring into some sort of uv flashlight and this is the result