[Leica] IMG: Cataract surgery, done!

[pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein)]

Thanks to everyone for your good wishes!

I'm doing fine today, the pupil is back to normal.  I'm just getting 
used to the new me, and resting up.  There will be some creative 
joggling of current glasses with right-hand lenses removed until things 
stabilize and I get new ones. Ted, absolutely right, I'm already seeing 
better than I have in years, and the "new" lens transmits significantly 
brighter colors than the old one did.

Geoff, you were on the right track, but the flare control with my 
anime-sized pupil was unworthy of a Noctilux. As Erwin Puts would say, 
"wide open, the lens exhibited excessive veiling glare which obscured 
fine detail.  This improved makedly upon stopping down."  It took until 
about noon today to get completely back to normal size. For a while, I 
saw rings around light sources, which I correctly guessed was light 
getting around the edges of my new lens because the pupil was so big. 
"Yup," said my surgeon when he called to check on me. That disappeared 
as the pupil contracted.

Sonny, you were quite right, I was watching TV yesterday afternoon with 
wraparound sunglasses as my ND filters.

Jim and Tina, The "X" over the target eye was amusing, but a very 
reassuring mistake-preventer.  Steve:  "Prefrontal lo-WHAT-omy? I'm just 
here for a cataract, and keep those little men in white coats 
awayyyyyy...."  :-)

Nathan:  Maybe too much information.  :-)

Richard: G1 with articulating screen, so I could see myself with the 
camera pointed at me.

--Peter