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Subject: [Leica] Cataract surgery, part deux
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:56:40 -0700
References: <5158B26E.5000306@threshinc.com>


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Steve Barbour

On Mar 31, 2013, at 3:02 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote:

Everybody: Thanks for the encouragement, it really helps.

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

You'll do fine Peter...and remember the illustrious doctor who did studies 
on urinary tract infections, his name...Dr Wiswell.

s

--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
> >


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