Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/30

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Subject: [Leica] Cataract surgery, part deux
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:58:56 -0400
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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
> >>
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-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


In reply to: Message from pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein) ([Leica] Cataract surgery, part deux)
Message from ric at cartersxrd.net (RicCarter) ([Leica] Cataract surgery, part deux)
Message from gerry.walden at me.com (Gerry Walden) ([Leica] Cataract surgery, part deux)