[Leica] Cataract surgery, part deux

[pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein)]

Everybody: Thanks for the encouragement, it really helps.

And Ted, I will be sure to empty my "tank" beforehand  :-)  Thanks for a 
great story!

--Peter


 > Hi Peter,
 > Best of luck you will be completely amazed after having both eyes 
done. Best
 > sight thing you could have done.
 >
 > Had both of mine done and it even improved very slightly the right 
eye with
 > hardly any sight at all.
 >
 > cheers,
 > ted
 >
 >
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: "Peter Klein" <pklein at threshinc.com>
 > To: "lug" <lug at leica-users.org>
 > Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 2:51 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
 > >