Archive for July 2nd, 2009
My fight: The eyes have it
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Weekly update letter
Dear family and friends
Back in May, I had a caratarct removed from my eft eye and, at the time I wrote about how spectacular it was watching the surgeon do his thing from my side of the eyeball – the spectacular swirls of colour as the incision is made – the removal of the lens and the replacemen of the new one.
It really was something different, beautiful and much appreciated as the results are instant the following morninh when they remove the dressing. Well, last Thursday,
I fronted up to have the right cataract removed. Now you must understaand that my right eye was not as healthy as the left because of astigmatism – that’s where the sight is at about a 30degree angle – you know the coke bittle glasses deal. Dr Nick from Wangaratta cautioned me that there was a risk of permanent damage to which I gave due consideration. After all, I am 67 years old, and my left eye no longer needs corrective lenses after the cateract job he did three weeks ago, and I am at the back end of my career and I was prepared to take on the odds in an effort to eexperience relatively normal vision simply for once in my life.
Due to my deteriorating situation, I am not in control of my bodily functiond until nearly lunchtime. The operation was scheduled for 8.45am which meant leaving Whitfrld an hour earlier – which meant getting up aout ranother hour earlier to get the morphine functioning and all that. The last time, I had to do that all over again to be in Wangaratta to have the dressing removred by 8.30 am.
This time around, I booked into the Wangaratta Private Hospital for the Thursday night to avoid the follow up trauma of the first time and that worked out well. It is now a week since the operation and it had proved to be such a success that I will not need glasses for day to day use. I can use a keyboard all day without eye strain and, for the first time in my life, I can read the labek on a shampoo bottle in the shower. That may noy sound a big deal to you folk with good sight but, believe me, it is exciting when you have never been able to do it.
If any of you are having sight problems – particularly with cataracts – please take my advice and go see Dr Nick from Hume Laser Viaion in Wangaratta. Without question, he is ‘The Man’, he has the skills, the equipment and the steadiness of hand to get it right.
Regards Greg
