Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Pearce" <billcpearce at cox.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 5:22 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Cataract surgery, part deux >I have been told that they now do the same operation as an alternate to >laser surgery to improve vision, with fewer pitfalls. The operation is a >common today as pulling a splinter, so it must be trouble free. Certainly >hope so as I'm getting to the point where it will be necessary, probably >this fall. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Barbour > Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 6:36 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] Cataract surgery, part deux > > > On Mar 30, 2013, at 4:27 PM, Cedric Agie <cedric.agie at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Several friends of mine have undergone such surgery. Today it's usually a >> one day clinic affair. >> For my grandfather 40 years ago it was months if not a year of dramas for >> each eye. But his mind remained perfect for his age (over 80). >> I admire woman who undergo sometimes major surgery and even peridurals >> without complaints and with a smile to have children. >> >> The time before the intervention is awfull, when you wake up you will >> feel >> better. >> A famous and sucessfull French painter after his eyes operation jumped to >> his feet and and changed the colors of all his paintings he saw. He was >> horrified, because he had discoverd they where too pink. > > > who was that please Cedric? > > > Steve > > >> >> Chin up, I wish you the best. >> >> Cedric >> >> >> >> >> 2013/3/31 Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> >> >>> Best of good fortune with this new surgery Peter. >>> >>> >>> *If you want to take more interesting pictures, >>> stand in front of more interesting stuff* -- Joe McNally >>> >>> Cheers >>> Geoff >>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman >>> >>> >>> On 31 March 2013 07:51, 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< >>> http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for more information >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information