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Subject: [Leica] Cataract surgery, part deux
From: olivegm3 at yahoo.ca (joe leung)
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 15:40:56 -0700 (PDT)
References: <51575E5E.3040807@threshinc.com>

Good luck, Peter.
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Joe Leung


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 From: Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com>
To: lug <lug at leica-users.org> 
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2013 5:51:26 AM
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

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