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Re: [OM] Cataract surgery, part deux

Subject: Re: [OM] Cataract surgery, part deux
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 07:16:08 -0400
Good luck.  Cataract surgery was a blessing for my own vision.  Apart 
from getting rid of a "yellow" world and turning everything blue again I 
gained 20-20 vision in both eyes for distant vision.  My only need for 
glasses is some +2 reading glasses available anywhere.

Since the cameras that I actually use have dioptric correction I have no 
need of glasses when using the viewfinder.  But I usually do have to put 
the reading glasses on when fiddling with external controls or reading 
an LCD although some controls, such as the mode dial, are large enough 
that I can see well enough to change without glasses.

But I don't have your childhood complication.  Let's hope for you that 
the new lens equalizes the focal lengths of both eyes and gives you 
better vision.

I don't know why but I was never at all nervous over my cataract 
surgery.  Maybe it's because I've been through several major surgeries 
requiring many weeks or months for recovery.  Cataract surgery was a 
piece of cake... in and out in a matter of hours with no physical 
discomfort at all.

Chuck Norcutt


On 3/30/2013 6:13 PM, Peter Klein wrote:
> OM-ers:  Caution, unabashed play for sympathy ahead.
>
> It's been two years since my 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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