Comments on: Sight lines

By: Molly Brown

Molly Brown — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 03:51:22 +0000

Happy to hear your surgery went well.

By: R2L

R2L — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 03:40:51 +0000

Opps at 11:30: … telephoto lens inserts??

By: R2L

R2L — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 03:37:53 +0000

Les, my previous set of glasses ended up with quite a few scratches because I was careless about using any cloth at hand to clean or wipe them.
Now, for my replacement set I am more careful to use lens cleaner and the designated micro-clothes intended for that purpose.

As a commenter at BillWhittle.com said: “Reality Is Not Optional”. So we need to remain clear sighted about looking for reality in both our physical and political environments.

By: Frederick

Frederick — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 03:34:41 +0000

neo, you didn’t know what you were missing. It’ll be an adjustment but I think you’ll like it better.

When my grandmother was little she got glasses and for the first time she could see leaves on trees and she cried. For me it was the stars on the American flag, I had never seen them until I first got glasses.

I had years when I couldn’t afford to glasses and had to do without, and every time I got glasses again I was stunned by what I’d been missing out on.

By: R2L

R2L — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 03:30:26 +0000

Neo, remember that we see with our brain, not our eyes. The eyes (natural or artificially assisted) only present the light to the retina cells (as we all know).
So if you are seeing more sharply, that should mean you are using your brain more sharply, too.
Now, to make us all geniuses, do they make telephoto cataract inserts?? 🙂

And for those of you who improved your color perception after cataract surgery, you can now say you are better able to see the character of people of color. You know, Barney, Shrek, ET, et al.

By: Estoy Listo

Estoy Listo — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 03:12:06 +0000

I can’t see the stars the way I used to, so that the Pleiades have become just a gauzy patch. I’ll take a few lines in the face in trade.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 02:48:55 +0000

Wow. Glad this surgery worked out well for you Neo, truly glad. What you do and do so well is a gift to us all and we are glad this will help you do it better.
But at my age, the thought of getting a clean, clear look at that mug in the mirror is so unsettling as to almost make me shudder. I make it a practice to have the lights down low if I am anywhere near a mirror.

By: Les

Les — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 23:10:32 +0000

Neo, glad it went well. My view is that those lines are due to a defect in my lenses and not from my being old.

By: Robert Sendler

Robert Sendler — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 23:06:23 +0000

For me it was how things I thought were yellow turned out to be bright white after the first eye was done.

By: Gerard vanderleun

Gerard vanderleun — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 22:54:35 +0000

There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,