This may be obvious but maybe not moving furniture after the surgery and maybe planning ahead and rethink the way furniture may be suitable for her. For example if a sleeping spot is a bit hard to reach maybe get her used to some easier route to it.
I have no experience with blind cats but I would think it would help. Cats have a very good ability to memorize their space but it needs to stay the same for a blind cat.
I think stand up maths did a video getting stung by bullet ants and showed it’s not as insanely painful as coyote seemed to imply.
So I indeed think he is over-dramatic most of the time…