
Casting a New Eye
The goal of this post is to encourage eveyone to give a little more attention, if you’re not already, to your eye care…
I am, I think, above the average age of the visitors here. I’ve been wearing glasses a long time. For many years my vision was stable and the choice to get new glasses was mostly to take advantage of newer materials, to have thinner lenses.
A few years ago the examiner told me that I had the beginnings of cataracts. I was reassuringly told, “Everyone gets them, if you live long enough.” Not to worry.
The next year was about the same, and that someday, something will have to be done. Also I was told I had another condition, called Fuchs’ Dystrophy and that I should put an ointment in my eyes at night time, to slow its progress.
Life comes at you fast and the next visit they informed me that if my vision can’t be corrected to a certain standard, the state government will have to be told I am not safe to drive. Hmm.
Even then, I put off any surgery as there were some family trips coming up (last year).
I had cataract surgery on the worst eye in January. Because of the Fuchs’, there was an additional corneal procedure at the same time. I’m still recovering from this.
The other eye is not changed yet. Because of this I can report the difference between the two eyes. The operated eye’s vision is about 20/40 unaided. Amazing.
But another change is the clarity. Although the difference is not quite “night and day,” it is like “hazy, yellowy dusk and day.” The uncorrected eye puts a yellowish cast on everything, as well as reduced sharpness.
I now realize that sometime in the past I was not seeing some of the differences in films that others were noting. This is because I was seeing everything degraded, and had gotten used to it.
So, yes, buy the latest film restorations, get the best equipment you can afford, but don’t forget another important factor, your eyesight.
Stop traveller and cast an eye,
As you are now so once was I,
Prepare in time make no delay
For youth and time will pass away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataract_surgery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchs%27_dystrophy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneal_t ... AEK.2FDMEK
Rick
The goal of this post is to encourage eveyone to give a little more attention, if you’re not already, to your eye care…
I am, I think, above the average age of the visitors here. I’ve been wearing glasses a long time. For many years my vision was stable and the choice to get new glasses was mostly to take advantage of newer materials, to have thinner lenses.
A few years ago the examiner told me that I had the beginnings of cataracts. I was reassuringly told, “Everyone gets them, if you live long enough.” Not to worry.
The next year was about the same, and that someday, something will have to be done. Also I was told I had another condition, called Fuchs’ Dystrophy and that I should put an ointment in my eyes at night time, to slow its progress.
Life comes at you fast and the next visit they informed me that if my vision can’t be corrected to a certain standard, the state government will have to be told I am not safe to drive. Hmm.
Even then, I put off any surgery as there were some family trips coming up (last year).
I had cataract surgery on the worst eye in January. Because of the Fuchs’, there was an additional corneal procedure at the same time. I’m still recovering from this.
The other eye is not changed yet. Because of this I can report the difference between the two eyes. The operated eye’s vision is about 20/40 unaided. Amazing.
But another change is the clarity. Although the difference is not quite “night and day,” it is like “hazy, yellowy dusk and day.” The uncorrected eye puts a yellowish cast on everything, as well as reduced sharpness.
I now realize that sometime in the past I was not seeing some of the differences in films that others were noting. This is because I was seeing everything degraded, and had gotten used to it.
So, yes, buy the latest film restorations, get the best equipment you can afford, but don’t forget another important factor, your eyesight.
Stop traveller and cast an eye,
As you are now so once was I,
Prepare in time make no delay
For youth and time will pass away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataract_surgery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchs%27_dystrophy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneal_t ... AEK.2FDMEK
Rick
“The past is never dead. It's not even past” - Faulkner.