I may never get the epiretinal surgery—hopefully. Had been going to the U of F Eye Center in Gainesville for years, but both my Docs left at about the same time. Recently discovered the cataract Doc was still in Gainesville, and he just did this surgery.

Tech at his office also said that the retinal Doc was still in town. Saw the U of F retinal Doc last July and he said eye issue was stable and no need to return unless a problem shows up. Good retinal Doc but just not the one I had for years. Will check to see if original retinal Doc accepts my insurance and hook back up with him around July of this year. Will see what he suggests, but I think it has to be bad before he wants to do surgery, and apparently mine hasn’t gotten any worse after 12-13 years.

After cataract surgery it seems much better, so the cataract was causing some of the distortion…lines are not as wavy…letters are clearer…but the zoom is still there.

Thanks for the update tho!!!

After almost 6 months it is much better– but still not as good as the other eye. I would say it’s worth doing.

The Right eye is now better than the Left eye—even with the epiretinal issue.

The cataract in the Left eye causes a so much darker look to things, that the Right eye seems to be becoming the dominant (??) eye or at least fighting for dominance.

Yeah, my cataracts were worse than I thought…

neo, huxley, and Steph

Interesting comments y’all have going. Will agree mainly with Steph on this one, since I’ve been thru the same.

Mostly link my comments here, and many times the News outlet or the Author or the source or etc. are not ‘sUiTaBlE‘ for a commenter or two or three. Baloney!

Linking to a search term is more than acceptable to ‘n for me. If a comment is not ‘sUiTaBlE‘ to me or seems wrong, then I do my own research. Will prove that comment wrong or give my 2-cents like neo did…that’s my 2-cents on this 🙂

Update on $60 bottle of eye drops – was wrong on how to take it, i.e. not 4 drops a day until empty. 4 drops first week, 3 the second, 2 the third, and 1 the fourth or until empty.

Followup this morning…eye pressure was 10 in surgery eye, so looks like iStents are already working – pressure has not been that low since first time checked. Lowest the Latanoprost drops ever got the pressure was to 15.

Have seen a couple or few of Cesar’s programs, but wasn’t that impressed. Have seen all kinds of dog trainers.

Dogs and humans can both be called pack animals – humans may be closer to herds or tribes than packs, but so could dogs.

Raised pit bull/Am Staffs for many years. Best have a parting stick if you let them off their chains or aircraft cables. Males were gonna fight each other. Females were gonna fight each other. One male and one female got along great. Definitely not pack animals – tho I have seen pics of some 3 or more together behaving…temporarily socialized, IMHO, or crossed with another breed and lack the fight gene.

Some dogs are probably more suited for packs, but not all. Some humans are not suited for packs/tribes – in later life I realized that I had never cared much for such societal groups or gatherings.

Dogs are man’s best friends, and have different personalities like humans…

@ Chases Eagles – losing my night vision was one of my first tip-offs.
I had worn glasses since elementary school, which got progressively thicker, so I didn’t really notice my vision was getting worse.
Funny story about that: As a child, I was never suspected of being near-sighted because I learned to read pretty much on my own and could deduce what was on the blackboard without a great deal of difficulty. (No regular check-ups for that at the time.) However, I was with my family at a football game (rah rah rah! for the home team!) and my mother asked me something about what was going on and I admitted I couldn’t tell, and in fact couldn’t read the score board either.
She had me in the optometrist’s office within a couple of days. (You could still do that in the sixties.)

Took me a couple of years after the second surgery before I quit reaching for my glasses in the morning, but I don’t miss them at all.

Steph:

Do your own legwork and serve it up in a well-written paragraph or two.

You make the claim. You have the onus.