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Subject: [Leica] Cataract surgery, part deux
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:56:36 -0700
References: <51575E5E.3040807@threshinc.com>

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
>
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