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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celsus" data-source="post: 871702" data-attributes="member: 185674">The camera cannot see through to the retina if the cataract is severe.Depending on your age, you may consider getting the cataract fixed.  I got one eye fixed 3 years back, as today its more or a less a standard routine with a very high success rate.  It literally only takes a few minutes and its done with micros surgery, needing only like 3-5 mini-stitches that all just dissolve by themselves over a couple of days after the intervention.  I too waited for maybe 4-5 years until my vision on the right eye no longer served any use, as the cataract became more severe.  Amazing the clarity and light I now see with that eye, much better even than the other eye (with no cataract so far).   Prognosis is that I will not need any further procedures on that eye for the rest of my life, so clearly worth doing while still being able to benefit from added pleasures in life.</blockquote>

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