riverman wrote:

Now, wouldn't THAT be a gas if they could put in a Polarized lens!

Hah ! Polarized, Shmolarized, my new eyeball is gonna be a
HDTV, stop-action TIVO, crystal ball, time machine eyeball.
Not to mention being equipped with a trout sensor. ;-)

Good luck. By the way, what were the symptoms? ...

Thanks. I can only relate symptoms in retrospect, when he
told me I had cataracts I was flabbergasted. But in retrospect
I first noticed something weird back in August when I was
driving to St. Louis to catch a Cardinals game. It was an
afternoon game so I left Chambana early in the morning. I
remember thinking that this morning fog will lift as soon
as the sun gets good and up. It didn't, it was "foggy" all
the way to St. Louis. That weekend at the Farmer's Market
I couldn't seem to wipe the smudges off my glasses, I kept
taking them off and cleaning them to no avail.

My left eye did a great job of compensating, I didn't
notice anything much amiss except I needed to wear a ball
cap while working at the computer to cut down on the glare.

Then we drove to Birmingham to pick up my daughter. I was
astounded at how much Kristine could see that I could not.
The white lettering on the green background of the highway
signs melted into gray and I couldn't read them until I
was right on top of them. When we drove through a rain
storm on the interstate a big semi with a white trailer
just flat ass disappeared into a gray glob.

Like I said, that's all retrospect. Kristine made the eye
doctor appointment, I really had no idea just how blind
I was until the eye doctor issued the reality check. It
was obvious enough to him, he saw it immediately, so if
you're at all worried about it your eye doctor should be
able to let you know one way or the other. For what it's
worth I saw the same eye doctor last December, exactly
one year ago, and at that time there were no cataracts.
Apparently subcapsular cataracts can form very quickly.

--
Ken Fortenberry