Cataracts can significantly impact your ability to enjoy activities that require seeing fine details. Here’s how cataracts affect close-up vision:
- Blurriness: Cataracts cause the eye’s lens to become cloudy, leading to blurred vision. This makes it difficult to see small text and fine details.
- Glare and Halos: Cataracts can create glare and halos around lights, which can further impair the ability to see clearly, especially in well-lit or bright environments.
- Reduced Contrast Sensitivity: Cataracts decrease contrast sensitivity, making it harder to distinguish between similar colors and shades, which can affect the ability to identify specific characteristics.
- Difficulty with Close Work: Cataracts make it challenging to focus on objects up close, such as reading fine print, which can be frustrating and diminish the enjoyment of activities.
Cataracts gradually reduce one’s ability to enjoy everyday tasks, including fun activities. For those whose hobbies include playing board games or cards, blurred vision from cataracts diminishes a player’s ability to engage effectively with the game, make strategic choices and causes frustration in an otherwise stress-relieving experience. Mahjong, a tile-based game that combines elements of strategy, skill and chance involves assembling specific tile formations to achieve a winning hand. For those who love Mahjong, you know that to be successful in the game you need several core components: strategic thinking, memory and observation, social interaction, and mental exercise. In addition to managing and balancing your own hand as you avoid getting stuck with tiles that do not fit into sets, you always must acutely observe your opponents discarded tiles to guess their hand and adjust your decision-making accordingly in order to win the game. These tiles consist of different suits, winds (which represent directions) and bonus tiles of flowers and seasons. Unfortunately, as cataracts progress, these strategy tactics, considerations and finite details become more and more challenging.
The good news is that cataract surgery has an exceptional success rate. Cataract surgery can significantly improve your ability to play Mahjong by enhancing your vision with improved clarity, reduced glare, enhanced contrast sensitivity and easier close-up vision. With surgery, the clouded lens is replaced with a clear artificial one, leading to sharper and more detailed vision. This makes it easier to read the small characters and symbols on Mahjong tiles and restores your ability to focus on objects up close for more accurate gameplay.
Cataract surgery can give you quality of life back. From necessary activities like reading, driving and seeing loved ones clearly, to the simple enjoyments of life that can be found in your favorite game of Mahjong, don’t delay seeing clearly any longer. Learn more about cataract surgery at Eye Institute of South Jersey, P.C. by calling 856-205-1100 or visiting WEBSITE.