PORCH PONDERINGS

Cataract #1

I had surgery on my right eye. Cataract surgery. It was a non-event as everyone said it would be. But since it is your eye, it is not a non-event.

It was like looking into a kaleidoscope. Really. Look at the light on the left, Norma. Okay, I look at the light on the left. You will feel some liquid on your face during the procedure. Okay, I felt liquid on my face during the procedure. You will now hear my machine breaking up the cataract. Okay, I hear some strange sounds. You will now see the new lens going into your eye. Okay, I now see some new strange lights and I guess this is the lens going in. Like I wrote, like looking into a kaleidoscope. Strange lights and colors.

But it was all done professionally and with great dispatch. The whole ordeal was over in less than half an hour.

When I came home, I experimented while watching TV. The whites are whiter, the colors more vibrant. The cataract had dimmed and yellowed all my sight over the years. But it happened so slowly I never noticed. Strange.

Today I went for a post-op visit with my regular eye doctor. All is fine. The exam was normal. The majority of the time we spent talking of diet and how important diet is for eye health. Hubby and I have been eating better the last few months, more green leafy vegetable and avocados for my macular degeneration. Then we discussed the horrid diets most everyone in America has now and how important diet is as we age. Strange thing to discuss with your eye doctor! But then again, I guess not.

One thing I am finding a bit weird though. I keep wanting to find my glasses, put them on. Adjust them. Push them up my nose.

They are not there. They won't be there anymore. Weird.