Yes I have had both eyes done, January and the second February.  2023 or 24.  All went well. I still have stigmatism in  my right eye, but I wasn't  about to pay $2.000 extra. I did get glasses so I could see to read.  Just do what they tell you.  There was a no bending, no lifting heavier then a gal. of milk, etc.  All common sense. 

You will be fine Chuck. I'll keep you in my prayers.

Same as Teddy but was able to afford the stigmatism repair.

Vision was good as soon as the Eye Patch came off 

Cannot speak to macular degeneration

I had cataract surgery in 2014 two weeks apart. I got an artificial lens in each eye to replace those clouded by the cataracts. Everything went well.

For the first eye I had a plastic shield taped over my eye area until the next morning. I went back to the eye doctor for it to be removed, then my vision was checked. It was 20 over "some very large number" before surgery. After it was 20/15 and perfectly clear. There were still some "problems".

The cataracts had clouded my vision so I wasn't getting the normal amount of light into my eye. After the surgery, everything was very bright and painful, but I had been provided with dark glasses to avoid the brightness and pain problem.

Everything close was blurred, but I bought some cheap reading glasses as soon as I could to solve that problem.

I had problems at home bumping into things. I soon realized that the amount of light inside didn't make things clear enough for my brain to decide which eye to use. My "old" eye was still cloudy and dim, plus everything was blurred in it. My solution was to make sure all the lights were always on. That seemed to convince my brain to use information from the "new" eye and to ignore everything from the "old" eye.

Finally, my cataracts had a yellow tint, so my brain had adjusted to make the yellow tint seem normal. After the surgery everything had a blue tint.

The surgery on the second eye was the same as the first. After the second eye was fixed, all the problems caused by having two "different" eyes went away. It took about two months for everything adjust to the new "normal", except I still had to use reading glasses for close vision.

I have one just starting. Don't need surgery yet but within the next 5 years. I'm 72 and I expected it. Kinda of runs in the family. Good luck I hope all goes' well for you.

My sister had both done a few weeks ago [with a gap].

The strange thing is she's an artist [eg Archibald Prize finalist] and now she says it's the first time she can 'really' see colour....

All the best, Chas! I wish you good luck and good fortune. Both of my parents went through cataract surgery on both eyes, years ago and came through it with flying colors. It was a piece of cake for them. I don't think you have anything to worry about. As for falling apart, I'm only 61 and I can barely walk, and my back is so bad that it hurts me to even pick up a bath towel after showering!   

Nothing in my life is easy anymore. I should say my wife of almost 50 years is rock steady. We are always there for each other. So, the eye institute says that they can't get a fax to go through to my heart doctor to get permission to do the surgery. I think that's a big load of lying crap. Why did they wait until the morning of the surgery to tell me that? Last week I got the fax number to the heart doctor and gave it to the eye institute. I called the heart doctors office and they say that they are getting faxes. I'm supposed to get the left eye next Monday but they are switching it to my right eye. This better be sorted out by then. I've reached out to the heart doctor's office to contact the eye institute. We will see. 

The Eye Doctors' staff might have overlooked it, discovering it was missing at the last minute. Fax lines are phone lines and if they're transmitting/receiving other faxes, they can't receive yours. I think they could have solved it by emailing an editable pdf of the consent/consultation form to the Cardiologist office, though. But that's hindsight -always 20/20.

Hope it goes better the second time around, Chuck. 

Many of my patients reported colors being more vivid after cataract surgery.  Not all, but a sizeable number.

Indeed. I believe removing the haze of the cataracts enriches colors much like dehazing in Ps.

Best of good fortune with the coming surgery, Chuck.   

Cataracts and cataracts surgery were known in 980 CE. Abu-Sina'a (Avicenna) taught it in his teaching hospital in Isphahan, Iran. However, the procedure was first recorded in a wall painting in Deir el-Medina, Egypt around 1280 BCE.