Status report: still alive...

[djonn]

...and newly outfitted with a minimally bionic eye, thanks to cataract surgery last week. (Nowadays, you don't just get the cataract(s) taken out, they put in a lens implant - I got the basic model, thus "minimally" bionic.) This was the right eye; there's another operation on the left to come, but the exact date isn't yet scheduled. The improvement in vision is already dramatic and likely to be better still by summer, once the left eye is finished with recovery and the opthalmologists can finally write me a prescription for new glasses. [As it turns out, I'm sufficiently astigmatic that glasses work better on that issue than the higher-end implants would have.]

Comments

[jreynoldsward]

Enjoy the clearer vision! I had two years between my cataract surgeries because the one in my right eye was fast-growing. It was weird because every time I took a sip of coffee while at the computer, the cup rim blocked out the cataract and I could see clearly. Put the cup down and...blurry again. But the secondary cataract they warn about and were worried about developing faster than usual has been quiet.

It's taken me longer to adjust with the second surgery, but...I'm still having reading fatigue. Distance vision is fantastic. And, like you, I have enough astigmatism (that plus natural near-sightedness) that I still wear glasses.

[snippy]

We're getting old. Glad you are getting medical help for the things it can help.