my Husband stopped his chemo for colon cancer after 36 treatments, over the course of 23 months. Within three weeks his reasonably good eyesight rapidly diminished, which the optometrist and oncologist indicated that was caused by the treatments. It’s been very difficult to set up appointments with the various optometrist’s and ophthalmologist’s during the last five months of Covid. His scheduled cataract surgery for one eye was to be on December 24th. We were so disappointed to learn that all elective surgeries were cancelled - and that his surgery would be pending.
The ophthalmologist will not perform the surgery while a patient is on chemo, so he was waiting to resume his treatments so that he could get the surgeries. After the first eye is done, it’s a six week wait before the next eye is done... even if he gets surgery done beginning of February, it could be as long as mid April before he can resume chemo... 8 months to wait.
We realize that Covid cancelled a lot of elective surgeries, but don’t understand why he can still go for his CT scans done blood tests yet people can going to physiotherapy and dental appointments. I wish there was another way, but travel to another province or across the border is prohibitive.
We live in a small community, two hour drive away from City. No Covid has reached us, and we feel lucky that we are safe and isolated in our little apartment. As a caregiver, my heart goes out to others who are in similar situations. All we can do is be patient.
