CORNING, N.Y. (WENY) -- A Corning veteran says he's losing hope after surgery to fix his vision left it worse.  Nearly three years after the cataract surgery, Bobby McKoy says he's still being bounced from doctor to doctor without a solution for his loss of vision.

"Its very disheartening," said Bobby McKoy, an Army Veteran from Corning.

McKoy joined the Army in 1968, and served until 1971.  He said he enjoys spending time with family and being active, but that all changed after surgery in 2022.

"It's something when you have to give your life up," remarked McKoy.  "I've been an avid runner, reader, right, I've had to give up driving and though, as if, like I said, I can't even read a credit card."

The VA outsourced McKoy's cataract surgery to Guthrie.  McKoy says for almost three years now, he's been bounced back and forth between the VA, Guthrie and doctors in New York City, without a solution to fix his sight.

"So far, everything has been talk, because no one wants to tell me that the problem is the lens and what type of damage was done when it was inserted into my eye. And so, I'm still at stage one," said McKoy.

McKoy said he also tried to get legal advice, but hit a dead end.  Another route he tried, reaching out to Congressman Nick Langworthy's office for help.  He said he was told there was nothing Langworthy's office could do.

"I fell into a crack, because it seems like the VA's only concern is to say 'we do not have any type of responsibility'," said McKoy.  "But, though I said, responsibility can mean a lot of things as of financially, that's not what I'm looking for. I am looking for this mistake to be corrected, so I can get my life back."

McKoy told me he also got an opinion from a third party doctor, who said it was nerve damage, and the lens was not to blame.  He said he's gone to multiple doctors and specialists, and they all have a different opinions, he said they blame everything but the lens.