My old eyes have been rejuvenated – if only I could do that with the rest of me!
Beeds Lake State Park, near Hampton, Iowa, September 17, 2014
Wow!
I had not realized the true condition of my vision and didn’t really appreciate how much it could be improved by a “minor” procedure on each eye.
Now my distant vision is near perfect as far as I’m concerned. My old eyes have been rejuvenated – if only I could do that with the rest of me!
My eyesight has never terribly bad, though over the last decade or so it had gradually been changing. I could function without my glasses if I needed to and I normally read books and used the computer without them. While I’ve known I had cataracts for a long time, their impact hadn’t been noticeable until a few years ago when I seeing halos around lights at night.
The cataracts had been getting worse and by late last year, I knew they should probably need to be dealt with in 2020. Lights and bright reflections fogged up what I was seeing – somewhat like looking through a slightly frosty or fogged-up window.
Then COVID happened and I put off getting an eye exam until the middle of August.
On September 1, I had cataract surgery on my right eye and, then, a week later had the left eye taken care of. The cloudy lenses were replaced with clear artificial lenses that also corrected my distance.
The results are absolutely amazing.
Colors are brighter, whites are whiter, and details are crisp – for everything out past a couple of feet. Up closer, on the other hand, things tend to be less focused.
Where before I could read without corrective lenses, now I need reading glasses.
I can live with that.
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Congratulations on the successful cataract surgeries. I can well imagine what a change they must have brought about for your vision.
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Thanks!
It’s a little weird having to wear glasses where I didn’t use to need them and not needing them where I once did. I could have had one eye set up for far vision and one eye for close, but that didn’t make sense for me. I guess some people do choose that.
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