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From: suzeeq <suzee@imbris.com>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-26 (Tuesday)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:05:40 -0700
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On 3/27/2024 5:57 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 3/27/2024 4:24 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 13:23:29 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>>> The laser slicing open my eyeball to remove my cataract riddled lens 
>>>> and
>>>> slide a piece of plastic in.
>>>>
>>>> Oh, you mean on TV?  Nothing.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I’m supposed to have that done in about eight years. I am hoping 
>>> not to
>>> live that long.
>>>
>>> I am also hoping it goes well for you.
>>
>> Yeah I had that done on one eye last July and was SUPPOSED to have had
>> the other done in late August but they found stuff they didn't expect
>> (mostly calcification) and it's now late March and I'm still waiting.
>>
> I had the cataract diagnosis three years ago.  Its taken this long for 
> me to get the money together to do it.
> 
>> It's effectively like having two eyes each with a different
>> prescription - I can drive but have to be careful or at least more so
>> than usual. If I couldn't I'd likely go utterly bonkers.
> 
> Much the same with me.  The only thing that saved me from coke-bottle 
> glasses is better materials to make lenses from.  As it is the operation 
> went well, the check-up today didn't reveal any immediate problems, I 
> have 20/20 in that eye now and have a mid-April date for the operation 
> on the other eye.  But I am/was so massively short-sighted that trying 
> to use both eyes now gives me a splitting headache, so I'm wearing an 
> eye-patch until then.
> 
Did you get a lens with the 20/20 prescription in it?