Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Best luck! We thinking of you ric On Mar 30, 2013, at 5:51 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote: > LUG: Caution, unabashed play for sympathy ahead. > > It's been two years after the first eye was "fixed." The other eye has > done the same thing--gotten progressively cloudier and more nearsighted. > So it's time to replace my original lens with a new, artificial one. The > surgery happens this coming Tuesday. Even though I've been through it > once before, I'm a little nervous. I'm also looking forward to getting it > over with. It's going to be interesting, after being nearsighted all my > life, to have "normal" vision and need to use reading glasses to see > close, rather than just take off my glasses. > > I may not be free of glasses, though. After the first operation, I saw > double when looking to the right, and they had to put prism correction > into my glasses. It remains to be seen whether equalizing the focal > lengths of the two eyes will make this better or worse. I had a wall-eye > when I was a kid, which was corrected with surgery in the mid-1950s. This > issue may be fallout from that. I guess I'll adapt, regardless. > > How will all this play out in terms of using a camera and being able to > see the menus and controls? Stay tuned. > > --Peter > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information