Wow.
What did coldblood ever do to you, @Bessie ?
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Dang. Get well soon.
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Are they taking the ■■■■?
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My whole life I worried I was going bald but I wasn’t.
Now that I’m going bald I’m surprisingly confident that nothing of the sort is happening.
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I looked into cataract surgery, to the extent of going to the clinic and doing the preliminary assessment. I decided to wait when the rather talkative lady doing the assessment said that if I had it done, I probably wouldn’t notice much difference, because my cataracts aren’t very severe.
You would never believe me…
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It was suggested that I shouldn’t wait until they get worse because the operation gets more tricky.
The new lens should mean i only need glasses for reading rather than multifocals.
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I went to Medownik and they said I should get a multifocal implant.
It’s in the mists of time, but I remember getting told to avoid them like the plague.
I was a bit wary too. But the technology of these things is improving all the time and extremely rapidly.
When people these days make such an issue about gender-neutral toilets and you remember having them as a kid fifty years ago. They were known as the local swimming pool.
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Clearly they needed to invest in that “super chlorine”. You know… the stuff that reacts and turns bright purple when it reacts with pee…
I remember one time having a sneaky pee in the deep end when the lifeguard noticed what was going on and blew his whistle and shouted at me.
He gave me such a fright that I almost toppled in.
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Cataracts and cataract surgery
Had cataracts in my right eye cleaned out yesterday…my good eye. Had the left eye done 20-odd years ago, which did nothing but relieve pressure. Left eye has been buggered from birth.
So fronted up at St John of God hospital in Warrnambool early yesterday morning…had a swag of eye drops in, then the anaesthetists put me much further under than the previous one. I didn’t feel anything at all. But was quite wonky afterwards in the balance department. Punched out z’s for a couple of hours.
The sight started to come back properly about 4pm when I realised that I didn’t need glasses to watch TV. From years of wearing multifocals, I now only need reading glasses. and this is taking some time to get used to. Picked up a pair of the $20 jobbies this morning at the local pharmacy. I’ll be on medicated eye drops for a month, and lubricating drops for a fortnight. No water in the eye at all during showers for 6 weeks. No heavy lifting for a month. Able to drive short distances from tomorrow, but a fortnight before longer drives. The eye felt quite gritty yesterday, as predicted, but much better today. Don’t scratch or rub.
They were quite a few getting it done yesterday, some of whom had had the other eye done the day before.
My sister had come down for a couple of days, but she’s leaving tomorrow. Geelong fan, so not allowed here Saturday. Last two games she’s been here were the Elliott and Houston after-the-siren goals.
The light is miles brighter now, so had to drag out some old sunnies.
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if you can recall our last finals win.
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What was your starting position? I was very myopic until 20 years ago. Then in 2003 I got laser vision correction, which improved my vision from hopeless to 6/9 or 20/25. That’s how it’s been till now: I needed correction for distance, mid-range and reading, which came in the form of multifocal glasses.
Last year I was told that I had early stage cataracts. So the situation is now that I have imperfect vision at all ranges, plus mild cataracts. I’ve been thinking about cataract surgery, but was told it wouldn’t make much difference, so decided against it for the time being.
Did you have defective vision apart from the cataracts, as well as the cataracts? Or only the cataracts? And if the former, were both problems fixed by the replacement of the lens, or only the cataracts?
The mid-distance and longer distance seem to have been corrected, as well as the cataract removal. I hadn’t been conscious of it but I hadn’t realised how much the cataracts had caused a dulling of the light, because everything seems so much brighter today.
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Were you conscious that you had a problem? Or were you told in the course of a routine consultation?