Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter, Talk with Dr. Ted. He has been through this, with only one good eye. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Klein" <pklein at threshinc.com> To: "lug" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 4:51 PM Subject: [Leica] Cataract surgery, part deux > 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 > >