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