Originally Posted by
surgtech1956
At my eye exam yesterday was informed that I have a small cataract in both eyes. My vision is still 20-20. I turn 54 in April. Going to make an appt with an eye doctor. I wore contact lenses for about 30 years and started wearing glasses about 4 years ago - with progressive lenses. I work in surgery and I need to be able to see if close and far away, so the glasses work, 'cheaters' would be OK but I would need to leave them on, I'm going to check into some safety glasses with the little bifocal. I've wanted to go back to contacts especially on the bike. What sunglasses do you wear for riding? Also, anyone else with cataracts???
Grumpy Alert! What follows is an example of extreme grumpiness. I figure I am entitled.
I have a cataract growing in my right eye, which is actually my
GOOD eye, not sure what to do about it. Just been ignoring it, getting on with things. Been wearing progressive addition lenses for years, very nice. I wear clip on sunglasses over the lens, so I have the cataract growing over the lens of my eye, the glasses over the cataract, sun glasses over the corrective lenses. I am expecting the ocular version of that famous '80s affliction, Shoulder Pad Buildup.
Is this the standard time for the hearty good humored 'joke/saying', "Blind in one eye, can't see out of the other?" 'Cause I don't see the "humor" in it. Been blind in one eye my whole life, figured I had sacrificed enough. When it gets bad enough that I can't read, THEN it will be an "emergency". Medicare, anyone?
End Grumpy!