Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sent from my iPhone 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 > > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information