Nothing more boring that reading about someone else's medical problems, but this is my blog, so here goes.
Been having trouble reading a driving at night. As I rapidly approach 68, this usually means only one thing--Cataracts! Yep. Now, the cataracts themselves would be bad enough but... I also have normo-tensive glaucoma. I am told that this might have been caused by a blow to the head by a frying pan. I don't remember this but then I wouldn't, would I? Not that surgery will fix this but it makes the cataracts worse.
Not done yet. Mom had macular degeneration. I have Drussen. Soulns like a single-malt to me. "I'll have a double Drussen on the rocks, please." But no, it means that I may be at increased risk for macular degeneration myself. Again the surgery won't fix but it means my vision is affected yet more.
But wait! That's not all. I have fairly strong near-sightedness. This--so I am told--makes the cataracts worse. So, surgery is on the horizon, the very near horizon.
My doc prefers to one eye at a time. Makes sense, I suppose. But that means that between the first eye and the second, I will have great distance vision on one eye and need a strong prescription for the other. So, I plan on bumping into things a lot for a while. Oh, and with my known vision problems we will be going to a single vision intra-ocular implant rather than the continuously variable kind. So, I still get to wear glasses for reading, knitting, etc. Well, I have been wearing glasses for 57 years, I guess I can do this.
So, looking forward to new things. Will be nice to step outside and only need sunglasses. Maybe I should get a pair of those Oakleys with the built-in internet connection. What do you think?
