Wow, been gone from this site a long time. I promise myself to do better and then, well as they say, time flies. I recently did a webinar on how to use WordPress sites, I’ve been gone so long, I had to refresh my memory. I found out one difference between .org and .com sites. I’d never pondered that, but it turns out .com sites are more for diarist type of writing. And that is what I do, so perfect fit. She did give me a tip on how to access the classic editor. I really dislike this new editor. I will look up my notes on how to do it for the next post. Should be this year!
Now to my “diary entry.” I blame everything that happens to me on RA. It’s my fall guy, fall girl? And I’m usually correct. I was told I had cataracts in both eyes years ago, but I figured, par for the course. I’d scheduled surgery back in 2022, but that didn’t happen. So in the meantime, my left eye got worse. It became a nuisance. It was like seeing through one of those sheer curtains I had in the 70s. The white, billowy type of curtain that hung beneath the drapes, so that when you opened the drapes, you still had this see-through filmy fabric that gave you a sense of privacy and offered a flimsy, yet aesthetic, quality to the room.
It was nice in the window, but not on my eyes. Though they do say that the eyes are the windows to the soul. Still, I could do without the cloudy veil between me and the world. My right eye, of course, compensated, but at intervals I would close it just to test how bad the left eye was getting. I would watch TV and open and close my eyes in turn like shutters, like signal lamps sending Morse code out at sea. Clear. Blurry. Clear. Blurry.
It was extremely annoying. I worried about both eyes becoming that way. And I thought about how people in the past, before they were able to correct this, how they slowly went blind. A sobering thought. And though I dreaded going through the procedure (a former nurse, I’ve spent enough time in hospitals, though I won’t have any invasive procedure done anywhere else), I told myself, buck up! Get it done!
And I got it done. Monday will be a week post-op. And the best news is that I can read the subtitles on the TV. In fact, they are clearer to my left eye than they are to my right eye. A role reversal of sorts.
I was hoping to remember nothing about the procedure, but the sedation was so light, I will never forget the show the laser gave me. Moving images and bright colors undulating back and forth, like watching a laser light show of the heavens at the Griffith Observatory. The doc said it was ten seconds, but it felt like forever, and it left me with forever images.
It also left me extremely grateful for my docs, the surgeon and the ophthalmologist. I am very lucky to have found a warm and caring practice.