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.]