I have cataract advice if you want it. I had my left eye done more than a month ago and it’s still watery, blurry, horrible. I only needed one eye done — it’s an outlier — but it’s made it very difficult to function. What do I do for work? Focus on screens. What do I do for pleasure? Focus on screens (and paper). I can’t easily do either. Most people have a better recovery. My dad’s eye was perfect the same day! My experience has been awful. First, use a shit-ton of eye drops (the kind without preservatives) for a month ahead if you have the slightest suspicion your eyes are dry/sensitive. Wish I’d known. Keep your surroundings humidified if you’re in a dry climate/have a furnace drying your home. Finally, don’t get covid. I suspect it impacted my recovery. (Probably got it at hospital or ophthalmologist’s office.) It gives me headaches not to wear glasses, but my prescription for my cataract eye is now wrong, and I can’t get new glasses until the inflammation goes down. The eye strain is awful. I basically keep my left eye closed all the time now, and that definitely is not an ideal way to write. Most people don’t face any of this, but I asked specifically— numerous times — if having very sensitive eyes was going to be a problem and they assured me that the thing I was afraid of happening would not happen, and now it’s happened.