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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-26 (Tuesday)
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On 3/27/2024 9:25 PM, suzeeq wrote:
> On 3/27/2024 8:58 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> On 3/27/2024 6:05 PM, suzeeq wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> What lens are you talking about?  The one in my glasses frame or the 
>> one implanted in my eye?  The one in my eye doesn't have a 
>> "prescription" like framed external lenses and I have not had a lens 
>> in the external frame removed or changed.  My left eye, without any 
>> eye glasses prescription, has 20/20 vision according to the eye test 
>> that was part of my post-op followup.
>>
> Sorry, I meant the new one in your eye, they do have them available now. 
> It was confirmed last summer that I have cataracts beginning to form, 
> but  not impacting my vision now. Hopefully I won't need surgery for 
> several years. Congratulations on your improvement!

You should discuss it with an ophthalmologist.  The implant lenses are 
not like eye-glass lenses, there are a few different options that are 
all pre-made.  No individualized prescriptions.

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dirty old man.