On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:37:45 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

I can't believe it, but I have to have cataract surgery
on my right eye. ****, I'm only 49, I like to fell out
of the chair when he told me.

Sometimes other people can see them. If someone looks closely at your
eyes, they can see the white creeping in from the ends.

Be very glad that you're in an era when the surgery done to correct it
is good. If you ever heard old people talk about how the docs waited
for the cataracts to 'ripen', and knew what it meant, you'd have been
shaking back then. They used to wait until the patient couldn't see
much but blurs, take the lens off, have nothing to replace it with, so
they'd wait until the patient would be grateful for what he / she
_could_ see out of the Coke bottle glasses they'd have to wear.

It was worse in India. Quacks would go to the villages, pierce the
cataracts with a thorn, the patient would be able to see, and then,
due to the type of surgery, the lack of sanitation, etc., they'd go
permanently blind.

Oh, yeah, now that I've dropped my less than cheery message of the
golden olden ages, good luck (not that you should need it) with your
modern day surgery.

Different parts of us age at different rates. You're, in a way, lucky
that what you had go was something easy to cure.

Cyli
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Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.

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