Had a very similar experience to yours - except they did one eye at a time,
six weeks apart. They covered the operated on eye with a bandage for 24
hours and when they took the first bandage off I was shocked at the colors that
I could see with my "new" eye and lens. Colors had slowly faded
away from the cataracts over the years.
Prior to my surgeries I had to wear glasses all the time but now - four years
after the surgeries, I still only need glasses for reading. A couple of
times during the first two years after surgery my vision became blurry in one
eye and each time I'd go to the doctor and he'd give me a laser treatment in
that eye and it would clear up immediately. It was something covering the
lens.
My dad had cataracts in the days before the plastic lens insertion and in
those days to have the cataract removed meant becoming almost blind and having
to wear glasses with very thick lenses. He learned about eye exercises for
reversing cataracts and did them faithfully on a daily basis and actually
improved his vision and reversed the cataracts to some degree. With
today's technology I didn't even consider eye exercises.