Cataract Surgery
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It's infra-red, from what I've heard. Now he sees what The Terminator saw,,, with all the blinking identifier readout and constantly changing 'ranging' numbers.Sooo the question is : Did U get a first or second focal plane on the lens and with what reticle?
The big question is, is he hearing all the "beepbeepbeepbipbipbipbeeeeepbipbip'ing" going on at the same time, whilst computing a firing solution?
So three weeks on... just have one more week of drops. So everything is done.
Can't be happier. If you are in your 50's or, definitely, in you '60s and shoot...
Check yourself out. If your iron sights shooting is not up to what it was when you were 20-something... get checked.
The best thing is that I am back to iron sights pistol shooting... amazing.
Cheers,
Sirhr
Thanks for the support, @Greg Langelius * I see (literally) what you were talking about!
Can't be happier. If you are in your 50's or, definitely, in you '60s and shoot...
Check yourself out. If your iron sights shooting is not up to what it was when you were 20-something... get checked.
The best thing is that I am back to iron sights pistol shooting... amazing.
Cheers,
Sirhr
Thanks for the support, @Greg Langelius * I see (literally) what you were talking about!
My vision had slipped to about 20/80...so bad I couldnt read the largest green interstate signs. Had both eyes done 2 weeks apart, as you said, like looking through a micro scope. I opted for the distance lenses for LR but in good light I can read a newspaper w/o readers. 20/15 in one and 20/18 in the other. Like a new breath of life. The only thing I didnt like is that after the surgery I could see how dirty the floors were. Painless and easy, but do your research and get a specialist who does 10 of them a week and not your local sawbones.
Just went in for my continuity (followup) appointment. I'm getting glasses for my left eye astigmatism.
I didn't know I had one, but heck, I was so bat blind I probably did and never even saw it. I can see, shoot, and drive, but the distortion in the left eye is enough that I get headaches from driving long distances.
So we're 'trying' the glasses for long distance driving, and the options beyond that are not yet specified.
Heck, I'm just so glad to be seeing this well already that I'm cool with whatever the VA does on the subject from here on in. Still haven't done any iron sight rifle shooting, but just looking through the sights of the Garand makes me impatient waiting for the warmer weather. With the handgun, everything's inside the border of the target; a good start, I say. Some 9mm arrived yesterday, so practice is on the menu ASAP.
Funny, we moved down here to get away from the really cold Winters, and it seems to have followed us down. We had snow last week, the mountain tops are white around the valley, and there's frost on the cars every morning. Natives are saying it seems to be the coldest Winter they can recall. Yes, it's cold; but man, it's nothing like February in C-C-C-entral NY.
Still, I refuse to be ungrateful.
Besides, the folks we left back in NY are screwed so many ways, the weather is the least of their worries. I think that when the uprising begins, Albany will be a Mega-center.
Greg
I didn't know I had one, but heck, I was so bat blind I probably did and never even saw it. I can see, shoot, and drive, but the distortion in the left eye is enough that I get headaches from driving long distances.
So we're 'trying' the glasses for long distance driving, and the options beyond that are not yet specified.
Heck, I'm just so glad to be seeing this well already that I'm cool with whatever the VA does on the subject from here on in. Still haven't done any iron sight rifle shooting, but just looking through the sights of the Garand makes me impatient waiting for the warmer weather. With the handgun, everything's inside the border of the target; a good start, I say. Some 9mm arrived yesterday, so practice is on the menu ASAP.
Funny, we moved down here to get away from the really cold Winters, and it seems to have followed us down. We had snow last week, the mountain tops are white around the valley, and there's frost on the cars every morning. Natives are saying it seems to be the coldest Winter they can recall. Yes, it's cold; but man, it's nothing like February in C-C-C-entral NY.
Still, I refuse to be ungrateful.
Besides, the folks we left back in NY are screwed so many ways, the weather is the least of their worries. I think that when the uprising begins, Albany will be a Mega-center.
Greg
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That astigmatism is exactly why one needs to be extremely careful in choice of surgeons. Mine did extensive tests and measurements and saw that I had one n the left eye, and adjusted the choice of lens to allow for that. With the VA you may not have had as much leeway in choice. I consider my self truly blessed. Consider, 100 years ago we would be, for all intents and purposes, blind. The only problem I find now is with those bacteria called 'floaters' which occasionally briefly obscure vision.
While Im at it, a Maggot original quote..."Snow is just a four letter word and not a polite one. Ill send you a post card from the Virgin Islands. Fuck a bunch of snow."
Did you know that Japanese don’t get Cataracts?
They prefer Rinkons.
They prefer Rinkons.
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Welcome to the hide mighty necromancer!
I hope you enjoy your stay, short though it may be.
I have been taking my mom to get hers done. Last week was her left eye, this coming monday they are doing the right. She went from thinking it was always foggy out to being able to actually see 20/20 again in the first eye they did. Its amazing. Congrats on improving your quality of life!
I was diagnosed this past January. Don't remember him saying it year before last. Said they are small and probably 10-15 years away from being a real issue; but that said at night I do see some refraction going on that I didn't previously. I figure at the time my surgery will be done, I'll have LASIK (or whatever it'll be then) and a lens replacement.
Glad your experience went well. My dad's did not so I'm always a bit apprehensive about it.
You know whats even stranger?
Those two guys up there that just quoted something from near damn 3 years ago.
And they still don't know what started this back up after 3 years.
just remember when you can see again to do it sitting down you don't want to shock your system too fast when you see just how tiny it really is and yes more than three shakes does count as playing with it . best wishes on a speedy pain free recovery .
Had Both eyes done , one year apart !
Went from on my way to being blind to being able to see !!
I think it’s one of the life’s most awesome reversals of getting old , so to speak.
Still need reading glasses , glasses are a PITA , BUT mucho better than losing ALL sight.
Congrats to all that can see better !
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