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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Cataract surgery, done!
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:24:09 -0500
References: <4D818AFB.80409@threshinc.com>

Peter, when I went in for a check-up, the Optician in the Doctor's Office
put a blank lens in my glasses on the side of my surgery for me.

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> 
wrote:

> 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
>
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-- 
Regards,

Sonny
http://sonc.com/look/
Natchitoches, Louisiana

USA


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