Yesterday
I never did post another post yesterday – I was so exhausted I fell asleep early instead.
Did you ever lie down thinking “I’m just going to rest for ten minutes” and wake up five hours later?
By the way, yesterday was also the third anniversary of Gerard’s death. It’s very difficult to believe it’s been that long.
Neo, thank you very much for checking in. Take it easy and take care.
Prayers for your grieving of his passing.
I honor you for publicly honoring the anniversary of Gerard’s passing. You take care . . .
M J R
I share om’s sentiments.
neo, you honor all of us by offering us a glimpse into your very private feelings.
God bless you for continuing to publicly honor Gerard, keeping his memory alive.
You take care now . . . [don’t worry /at all/ about yesterday] . . .
M J R
I find there are times in my life when that has happened and it has felt almost life changing, after I woke up. Like there was some recovery or reset that needed to happen to my body and mind that I wasn’t aware of until finally lying down and lapsing into a near, comatose state.
I hope your rest was restorative!
Sounds to me like your body knew you needed a “rest” in the best Biblical sense…a time to observe the day apart from your labors. Good. “… God gives rest to those he loves.”
( loose translation of Psalm 127:2)
Yesterday
All my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they’re here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday
Eleven days ago I had cataract surgery. It was pretty horrible. I can’t watch movie swordfights for fear of getting an eyeball skewered.
After I was dropped off at home, I went to bed, pulled the covers entirely over my head — the light seemed brutally bright — and I slept for four hours easy.
Often the body knows best.
They tested me the other day and my eyesight in that eye is now about 20/20. A miracle of sorts. My other eye will need surgery too, but I’m not rushing it.
However, big thumbs up on cataract surgery! If one lives long enough, cataracts happen. I would have been effectively blind in five or so years without it.
I consider cataract surgery strangely uncelebrated.
@ Huxley: “I consider cataract surgery strangely uncelebrated.”
I was told by my optometrist a few years ago that I would need cataract surgery within a year, so I went to an ophthalmologist to get the deeper professional opinion. At my last visit 2 years ago he said I was still only at a 2 on a scale of 1-10; and that Medicare would not even consider paying for such an unneeded corrective operation.
But my 50ish year old neighbor had her cataract operations done essentially as a pre-emptive measure rather than waiting until a state of actual correction would be advised. To each their own?
Science fiction: someday our natural lenses will be able to be replaced with a transparent AI programmed version that then tells our brain what we are really seeing, and not what the brain wants us to think we are seeing.
“uncelebrated”: yes, many medical advances are amazing and marvelous when they first appear, and then become somewhat commonplace. At that point I believe they should be considered just part of the cost of normal medical maintenance and paid for out of pocket like auto repairs. But some things are sufficiently rare and risky that they should still be covered by insurance as a risk mitigating measure. Perhaps fixing retina detachments or something similar falls into that latter category whereas normal eye exams and glasses are and should be standard normal costs of life in our modern world.
Good to learn from Neo, you, and others that if/when I do need cataract surgery that is should be relatively low risk and provide noticeable improvement at that stage. Of course there are no final guarantees on such things.
PS: sword fights and eyeball skewering: the most intense pain I ever experienced (for a very short time) was during my radial keratotomy operations in 1982 [aka as Lasik today], when the dr. injected Novocain into my eye area prior to making 16 radial slices in my cornea with a diamond scalpel [before lasers]. It corrected my vision from about 20:800 to 20:300 but it was not until my 50’s that the eyes settled where they were supposed to be and I did not need glasses for about 8 years, after which some mild correction is now desirable.
Oh Huxley! So sorry your cataract surgery was tough! Opposite of what I thought I’ve heard!
Lasik surgery is usually “easy”, as in quickly beneficial, & a quick recovery. So I hear.
But I thought that cataract surgery was similar.
Am I just wrong? Or was yours complicated?
Thankful that days later you are such a success case!
I agree, it is a great, somewhat underrated procedure in America!
I look forward to it, some year. Or so I think!
Neo, blessings and comfort to you!
Honoring such anniversaries is important, when able.
Your body thought so, too.
Pls do take time, as needed!
@R2L: …yes, many medical advances are amazing and marvelous when they first appear, and then become somewhat commonplace.
Re: Cataract surgery
I had no idea. It’s now assembly-line stuff. My surgeon does about 12 per day. I don’t mind. That means the tech is worked-out and solid.
I thought cataracts were just a problem for 80 year-old people in Nepal!
My wife had cataract surgery yesterday, and during the after surgery appointment, I wondered how crude the first surgeries must have been. He said the first cataract surgery was about 2,000 years ago.
Turns off he was a little off.
Oh Huxley! So sorry your cataract surgery was tough! Opposite of what I thought I’ve heard!
Marlene:
Thanks! But it’s really my problem. I’m quite phobic about my eyes. It’s a crisis to put eye drops in. I once tried contacts and they were a disaster.
Which reminds me … it’s time to hit my right eye with the old Prednisolone. Ugh.
Brian E:
I was glad I didn’t learn what cataract surgery was until after the fact. A full description sounds fairly insane on paper.
huxley:
Congratulations!!
I certainly celebrated it. You may recall my many-part series on my cataract story, which begins here. My surgery wasn’t easy either, if it’s any consolation.
There’s a video on YouTube of my surgery. I can’t bring myself to look at it. Even the thumbnail is horrific.
You may recall my many-part series on my cataract story,…
neo:
Nothing personal but just the title translated to … I’m outta here. As I said back then:
I can barely read about this level eye stuff without tearing up or hiding under my desk.
https://thenewneo.com/2022/04/23/the-story-of-my-left-eye-so-far-part-i/#comment-2620049
That said, it’s worth it.
Huxley “It’s a crisis to put eye drops in.”
Ohhh … so LoL!!!
That’s me! And am having to, now.
It’s a mess. I keep thinking there must be a “life hack” I missed out learning, heh.
…
“I once tried contacts and they were a disaster.”
I’m in THAT club, too. 😎
At least we’re saving time & money, I tell myself. (–Glasses over contacts.)
When my husband had cataract surgery, I had to put the drops in for him. He was phobic about it (the drops, not the surgery).
My eyes are slightly dry since my cataract work. To put drops in, I lean my head way back, pull down on the lower eyelid, and aim the drop for the well made by the lid.
He knows.
He knows!
huxley, I’m happy for you having gotten through that!