Lady in Red
A red I can really appreciate! (Okay, I did manipulate the photo a bit.) People told me that the cataract op would let me see more clearly and more brightly. Yesterday I peeked a bit. Today the shield is off (except for sleeping). I have some “stained glass” panels in the kitchen window. I picked them up because, well, “stained glass” (I have a porch full of colored bottles for the sun to shine through) even tho the purple in them was a kind of boring puce. But there has been a overnight miracle! – now those panes are a lovely soft lilac.
I noticed the kleenex the doc gave me this morning (after putting in yet more drops) had odd yellowish hi-lites. I checked with one eye and then the other. With the old eye, the kleenex is yellow; with the new eye, it’s blinding white.
At home I checked my yellow curtains in the living-room. Even yellow is yellower without the old yellow lens!
Good thing we’re into the rainy season here or the world would be garishly technicolor. (I’d have fainted in my gaudy flower garden.)
The sharpness of everything is almost painful to look at.
Wow. I had no idea.
Yesterday my daughter drove me to the hospital for 7 am and we were back at home by 9. This morning I had to go to the doc’s office, in a yet further city, for 1st check-up. Again, back by 9. But I didn’t want to ask my daughter to take another day off work and asked a friend. Friend is something of a skeptic, tho the virus is a subject we avoid as much as possible (like politics and various conspiracy crap), and I had to provide a mask for her. I protected myself as best I could – raincoat (it WAS raining…but I usually ignore that), double-mask, no-prescription-glasses, plastic gloves. HOPE I DON’T DIE!
Next week I will do the drive myself – in the dark, in the rain, an hour down the highway! (As I normally would – I was just a little timid about it today, new eye and all.)
I’m being an enthusiastic missionary for cataracts on an FB oldies list I’m on. Some nervous nellies. DO IT!
11/18/2020 @ 3:28 pm
Today would be a great day to drop acid. You know…for people who like that sort of thing.
11/19/2020 @ 9:29 pm
Pass. (Don’t like pot and am an ayahuasca failure)
11/19/2020 @ 9:53 pm
Kind of joking.
11/19/2020 @ 10:12 pm
yeah, I know. But I had to reply something.
11/19/2020 @ 10:16 pm
Note to self – put ayahuasca tries on my list of possible subjects.
11/19/2020 @ 1:52 am
Wonderful to read upbeat bravitas on this wrong side of winter Myriad. Emoji wink! And I’m recollecting William F. Buckley’s ‘The Jeweler’s Eye’ as well as those early cyber YAHOO
commercials, ‘don’t forget to BLINK’…. We’re blessed as medicinal reconstruction is just getting
started. ‘Doctor My Eyes’! Every listener of the great Jackson Brown hears now; hey now! And, whoa, the immortal Jim Croce: ‘…something in my eye….’ Much enjoyed—no doubt you’re already well propped up for what’s it…? National Pirates Day 2021.
Mend well Myriad YAY!
11/19/2020 @ 9:31 pm
I was figuring on a nice black eyepatch, but no, just a clear plastic one taped on, with instructions to remove after 24 hours and then only wear in bed…where there is no one to intimidate, arrrrrrr, even if the patch weren’t so pathetic.
11/19/2020 @ 9:34 am
You’re regaining your naturally high definition eyesight…
Be careful while watching TV…
The reality is those colorful bottles you have on the porch…
11/19/2020 @ 9:33 pm
Waiting for sunlight on my porch bottles! Might have to wait for spring, here in soggy lower mainland BC. Why careful with TV? (I’ve been somewhat hung up on all the fine details I’ve been missing – pores, whiskers & such.)
11/19/2020 @ 9:55 am
I’ve had cataract operations on both my eyes, a few years apart. I guess cataracts aren’t all the same because mine didn’t involve color distortion. Mine involved lens distortion, so if i saw an electric light at a distance at night, like a taillight, I wouldn’t see one light, I’d see maybe eight in a sort of J pattern. The problem, of course, is that when you drive at night you see a lot more light sources than a single taillight. I’ve got so much driving experience I was able to do it but it wasn’t fun. Given what I do for a living, I couldn’t avoid night driving. After my second cataract was operated on, I suddenly had night vision. This color thing sounds scary. It might have something to do with a difference in our ages. I’m 66.
11/19/2020 @ 9:39 pm
I thought color change was typical – the cloudiness of the lens and all.
At night (and then lately during the day, or what passes as day in the rainy season here) I had larger and larger smears&spikes around headlights…your “J”s sound much more daunting. I still have a certain amount of “halo” with the op eye, but the literature the doc gave me says to expect that, and possibly floaters, but that should clear up in a few weeks.
Had to go to med centre re getting my driver’s license renewed, and passed the eye-chart easily (tho I did well enough with the non-op eye). I’m 84, and have to get a med report every 2 years now.
11/19/2020 @ 12:03 pm
So wonderful to have a new eye! I wish it could be the same with teeth.
Do you wear glasses? A buddy whose vision was poor as mine (3.25 and 3.50) got his vision corrected at the same time and no longer needs his glasses. After seventy years with fulltime glasses, he’s gone two years without any. That seems worth it right there!
Mine are what my doc calls “baby cataracts”, and says it’s too early to remove them. Like KS, I see double lights at night and when reading, unless I take my glasses off. I can still manage fine detail when drawing, but when that begins to go, it’s surgery time.
11/19/2020 @ 9:28 pm
My late husband wore thick glasses all his life – until cataract surgery, when he no longer needed them. I’d always thought vision problems had to do with the shape of the eyeball, tho it stands to reason that anomalies in the lens would have an effect.
I didn’t wear glasses and thought my vision was fine, but boy now I can practically count the needles on the pine trees on yonder mountain.
Teeth can be replaced grandly (cf movie stars), but at vast expense and a whole lot more time & pain…
Waiting for ear replacements (hearing aids only go so far).
I have a new knee, and that is quite marvellous too. A new back, I am informed, is out of the question.
11/20/2020 @ 10:22 am
When my cataracts were removed, I also had Toric lenses put in. For a few years I had a Toric lens in one eye. They correct vision. So I was highly nearsighted in one eye but more farsighted in the other. It meant I didn’t need glasses for either reading or distance, but it was a little weird. When my second eye was operated on, I also went with distance vision so I could drive without glasses. Now I sometimes need reading glasses, which I never needed before, but those aren’t prescription, they’re just over the counter and cheap. I can read this screen without them, but small print is a bitch, like on frozen food package directions.
11/20/2020 @ 5:55 pm
That must be what my friend had done. I’m zooming with his next week and will ask for the deets