Most of my working life has been spent in libraries, but in my younger days I trained and worked as a nurse. Now I have given up paid employment to cultivate the art of not working, and save my life at the same time. Life isn't always easy, but it's what we've got. Carpe diem!

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Saturday, September 24, 2011

The future's looking brighter

It would be way too predictable to post a video of Johnny Nash's "I can see clearly now" wouldn't it. Oh go on, I can't resist it, I'm predictable. Here's Jimmy Cliff's version.


Actually, I'm not seeing all that clearly yet because only one eye has been done. So at the moment I am bumbling around with one long-sighted eye and one short-sighted eye and my brain is having to sort it out. I'm getting around reasonably well but some things are a challenge, especially close work: reading for instance, and using the computer. I'm having to type this with one eye covered and it's tiring. But in 5 or 6 weeks I will have the second procedure and my sight will be damn near perfect! After a lifetime of myopia I can't even begin to describe how miraculous this seems to me. Already I am amazed at how much better I can see, how bright colours are, how sharp everything is. It's wonderful! The only downside is that now I am noticing things like windows that need washing ... cobwebs in the corners ... unseen and blithely ignored until now.  No excuse for ignorance any more.
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8 comments:

  1. Congratulations! (But now you can simply CHOOSE to ignore the dust. It will be very empowering.)

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  2. GREAT NEWS!I too am myopic and a life time of glasses wearing to focus everything, otherwise the world is a fuzzy mess, I am already understanding how good it must be.

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  3. I'm so glad it went well - and I like Mitch's attitude! :-)

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  4. Just catching up after some time away. I'm glad that your procedure went well. How exciting to think of being able to see well, after all of these years. Though, I have to admit that I, too, admire Mitch's attitude.

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  5. Awesome!
    So glad you got some brights and colours back into your life.
    My metaphysical friends would say that's what it's all about!
    Vision!

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  6. The miracles of modern surgery!
    Remember that spiders need homes and build them to find food. Be kind to them and leave their webs! Enjoy the prospect of great two-eyed vision in the near future. Pat

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  7. My Mother had her eyes done too not long ago and said the same things you are saying now!
    I'm so glad you can get your eyes fixed... makes the world an even prettier place, NEVER MIND the freaking cobwebs! I ignore them too, and I can see just fine...lol

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  8. I am taking Mitch's most excellent advice and am loftily ignoring the cobwebs. As Pat says, spiders need homes too.

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