Chuck, Chris, Joel: Thanks for the encouragement, it really helps.
--Peter
> 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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