It has been four days since I had the cataract surgery performed on my left eye. It has healed well, but as I’ve mentioned in my Eye to Eye posts, my eyesight has now gone over to the other camp—the far-sighted camp. I’m able to see far clearly, but nearby things become a blurry mess. It was near impossible for me to read anything, I had to sit something like 4 feet away from my computer monitor screen and use unusually large fonts. My ophthalmologist had already told me about this, and so I needed to get some reading glasses made, badly.
So two days ago, I went to my optometrist to get a prescription reading done on both eyes. Just as my doc had predicted, I was far-sighted now. I told Ms. Valerie (my optometrist) about my frustration in not being able to read, and surprise, surprise, she said my glasses would be ready for collection on the next day.
Yesterday I went to collect them. Tried them on at the shop, and wow! Everything nearby snapped into sharp focus—I was like a kid who had been given his dream toy. It was fantabulous—I went home and devoured a week’s worth of newspapers in one sitting. Plus, I got rid of those humongous fonts in Windows, and went back to the normal ones.
I’ll have to see the eye doc next week for a post-op checkup, and also the optometrist in a month’s time, just to make sure my power has stabilized.
That’s all my eye talk for now.