Thanks for all the advice and comment. I'm set to go ahead, pending finding
the $$ ('Bamacare, here I come). The right, bad, eye first, leaving the
left eye at its current ~20/70 so that I will need reading glasses only for
detail work, like finding escaped pedal ball bearings in the cracks of the
garage floor. I'm glad to hear that, in most cases, it works out very well
-- am looking to have at least one 20/20 bionic eye.On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Patrick Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I finally decided waiting was doing me no good -- I'd been dragging > my feet over corrective lenses after my ~2001 Lasik surgery has declined to > ~20/70 in the good eye) and saw the optometrist who said, "You've got a > cataract!" Seems the corneal thinning caused by Lasik makes one more > susceptible to this, but it is not uncommon -- says she -- to get them in > one's late 50s. > > At any rate, am now fighting with the vagaries of the Obamacare site to > sign up for insurance to prepare financially for what I hope is late Jan > cataract surgery. > > I think Steve P has the plastic lenses; my father had plastic corneas > installed and, while one was botched -- new doctor; no, didn't sue, should > have -- the good eye was 20/10 or so until he died at 81. > > So can anyone tell me his or her experience with such implants, and what I > should expect, good and bad? Me, I'd be delighted to have a plastic eye > that gives me 20/20 and leave my 20/70 eye for reading. (Tho' I've got an > incipient cataract there, too, but still, that one's a few years down the > road.) > > Right now, am wearing big, skinny, floppy contacts and about to try my > first ride in them -- stopping by True Value first to buy some wrap around > clear eye protection. The new lenses are quite comfortable compared to > those I wore up to 2001, but they do need frequent wetting. > > Patrick "20/20--20/fuzzy" Moore in damned cold but > thank-God-not-windy-today ABQ, NM > > -- > *RESUMES THAT GET YOU NOTICED!* > Certified Resume Writer > http://resumespecialties.com/index.html > [email protected] > http://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ > > Albuquerque, NM > -- *RESUMES THAT GET YOU NOTICED!* Certified Resume Writer http://resumespecialties.com/index.html [email protected] http://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Albuquerque, NM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
