Cornelius_Vanderbilt

Sorry to hear about your eye. This was my mom's biggest fear when my optometrist gave her the option to do surgery. He didn't fully recommend it so she chose not to because the negatives are what you've apparently experienced.

I too have a congenital cataract in my left eye, never met someone else with it and was told I'm a one in a million "lucky winner" by my doc.

Can't speak for everyone, but imagine having blurry peripheral vision to one side and you always see the inside of your nose on the right side. Does mess up my depth perception a little bit, and screws with my balance sometimes, but for the most part I live a healthy and functional life.

I've had several consultations and they're too afraid to operate on it, plus they don't think I'll get the vision back at any point.

Toughest part was wearing a patch over my good eye as a kindergartener. I was called "Pirate boy" and kids would just yell "Arrrrr!" at me.

Would be nice to see out of both eyes at some point in my life.