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Cataract Surgery

After about a year, I had blurriness in one eye: but only in the upper quarter. I went back to the surgeon, who explained that when the old lens was pulverized and removed, tiny remnants remained (they can never remove 100%). It developed a layer of scar tissue that occurred about 10% of the time. The solution is a brilliant machine that uses a very precise laser to perforate the tissue layer into four sections (like a 4-slice pizza); and the sections, over the next couple of days, just roll up into the eyeball and out of the field of view. It was a 2-minute procedure! Once that's done, it never has to be done again.
 
I will definitely give it a go soon. I need a better excuse to get out than an experiment while the temperature is in the teens. I am anxious but not crazy. :)
I see my optometrist tomorrow for my week +1 day post op exam. My distant vision is so vastly improved in both eyes that I hope for some definite time for an exam for new glasses. My near vision is not improved and needs correcting.
 
It's wonderful being able to watch a movie on a home big screen and also be able to read the closed captions ... without glasses. Now if I can only figure out how to get rid of the damn hearing aids 🤣
 
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