Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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