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I went to the ophthalmologist today.

The annual visit.

I am still bleary eyed and do not trust my tryttippping.

See?

No.

That is the point of it.

Eye drops.

They said four hours. Wrong.

Another rainy day. Another reason to crap out today on the blog and rest my eyes.

Labels: blogging, eyes

SUNDAY

Not a normal day. We are going to a tea party this afternoon. Someone's wedding meeting-up anniversary.

I am not keen on tea or parties but I have been asked/told to attend, so that is that.

There seems to be an upsurge of tea which is not on my list but I will get by somehow.

Today is the first day of the drops for the left eye which gets operated on Wednesday. Instilling they call it. I still am working on using up all the drops for the right eye. Drops.

I am getting the long distance view, the same as the right, so that I will have binocular vision. The world seems flat with one eye.

The option was to get one eye done for close work, reading. Use the other one for distance.

I have been able to operate one eye-dly but it doesn't feel right to me. So, glasses for up front work it is.

I was a bit romanced by the eye-dea of no glasses at all but the gain is not there for me in the monocular.

I want stereo.

I am not good at putting the drops in. I waste a lot.

I go through spots where there seems to be not a lot to say or it is the same stuff so that even eye I a bit tired of hearing about it.

Also I have had other things to think about.

I am renovating my Netflix Queue.

Up until recently, I have been queuing up everything that scores a 70% critics' response on Movie Review Intelligence, a review compilation site that pretty much matches my taste, but then I would take the films off the queue when they got close to playing. The other thing is that I have accumulated a sizable "see it again" list and it is swamping the new ones. Given a choice, I want to re-see.

So. I am taking the less interesting ones off the queue. I just cannot see everything. I was putting more than the 4-5 a week I do watch and like all things that have more intake than out flow, the list was getting fat.

Chopping. Culling. Curating my own list.

Labels: cataract surgery, eyes, medicine, tea party

EYE TO EYE

How am I doing with the eye you may ask. The removal of the cataract and replacement lens.

Great. In a word.

There is nothing going on with it at all which is good news. I take my drops. I have finished with one of them, there were three.

I am also getting better at integrating the "bad" eye with the new good one which indicates I will have little trouble making the left eye for closeup work and letting the right eye do the farsight.

This is done routinely for some contact wearers and lasik operations.

The key is whether it bothers me to have two different pictures as I do now between the two operations. Do I integrate them naturally? Answer appears to be yes. Especially when I am not thinking about it.

I am still taking it easy. First week. They point out that the results are so quick and successful that people tend to forget they are recuperating and need some time for rest and to stay away from any strenuous activity.

Labels: cataract surgery, eye, eyes

DAY AFTER

I went for the day after post op this morning.

Dr. Ho.

They looked at the eye, checked the pressure and gave me an eye chart to read.

My vision with the new lens, which has been pretty much clear all day, was perfect. Even better than that. One line over 20/20.

It is amazing. I have to admit. I can see shit that I haven't really noticed. Detail. Colors. Sparkles on grass and other shiny objects.

It is hard to describe.

She gave me a high five.

Remaining question is whether I should opt for the other eye to be for close vision.

She will call me in a week.

I think the deal is to see how well I do with one eye working to the best possible and the other being sort of a closeup only lens. The brain has to be able to merge the signals. After a week I will get a good idea of whether that works for me or not. It is working better every hour so I suspect that is what will happen.

The left eye is already like, good in close reading, and if it didn't have its cataract in it, would probably just be left alone.

So. We shall see what we shall see when we see it.

See you later!

If I had known cataract surgery was this boring I would have done it long ago.

Labels: cataract surgery, eyes

LATER

Late afternoon and I now see out of the "fixed" eye very clearly.

So much so that I have left my glasses off and am seeing with the new lens in the right and the left kind of second rate distance eye.

The closeup reading isn't all the way there yet so I am relying on the left eye for closeup.

It works.

I am rather pleased.

I will go see Dr. Ho in the AM for a checkup.

That is it for the day.

Thanks for your comments and pictures!

Especially the photoshopped ones.

Labels: cataract surgery, eyes