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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-26 (Tuesday)
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:57:13 -0700
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On 3/28/2024 8:04 AM, suzeeq wrote:
> On 3/28/2024 7:48 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Right, that's who I saw and noticed flyers for different options, but 
> the prescription lenses are very expensive. A woman in my yoga class had 
> surgeries a few months ago, and I think she needs glasses for driving 
> but can get along without them for class.

Its not so much the lenses but the surgery that costs.

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