Marty:
In l994 Al was told that he would need cataract surgery when his cataracts "bloomed." His eye dr also said that he would have to discontinue coumadin for 5 days before and 5 days after surgery. This scared him, so he did nothing until April of l996. We were returning from a play at night and he almost drove up the back of a dump truck because he couldn't see it. We found an eye surgeon who operated on the first eye 6 days later. This eye doctor has already completed 10,000 cataract surgeries, many with elderly people on coumadin. He said he would not operate on someone who discountined coumadin because he did not want a patient to have a stroke on his operating table.
Al had both eyes done and had no trouble whatever. What he did get was a new look on life. He said that he had forgotten how vivid colors were. To this day, he says he wishes he had the procedure sooner. Hope this helps.
\Blanche
