Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Best wishes, Peter! I have photographed many cataract surgeries and all have gone well. I would not hesitate to have it done when the need arises. The idea of better vision seems to be a miracle to me. Tina On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at me.com> wrote: > Peter > > Good luck with the operation, I hope all goes well. The mere thought of > having any kind of eye operation makes me shudder, so I hope you are braver > than I am! > > Gerry > > Gerry Walden > +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or > +44 (0)797 287 7932 > www.gwpics.com > > > > >> 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 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 > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com