Wow, Glad to hear that you are doing better. Do indeed take your time recovering... it's a blessing all went well.
Eron On Friday 30 January 2004 11:51 pm, Jim Bublitz wrote: > I have my bionics fully installed now. Other than the anesthetic > injection being extremely painful (just like at the dentist, but > in or around the eye) this one was easier than the last and > seems to be responding faster. It's looks a lot worse because I > had a little bleeding in the white of the eye (and all the blood > accumulates in the eyeball - kind of gross looking), but that > has no effect on vision, recovery, or even comfort. Plus I have > a black eye from the anesthetic - had a different guy do it this > time and he wasn't as good as the previous one. I had surgery > yesterday AM and could see well enough to drive out to get a > pizza late in the afternoon (at least I didn't hit anything), > and drove home (135 miles) today. Skipped the mountain passes > though (which is the quicker route) because the weather was > lousy at higher elevations. > > I'm going to take the next couple days off from any close work > (reading, computing much), because I had a lot of eye strain > last time, and it may have contributed to the complications I > had with the other eye (which is perfectly fine now). I'm not > known for patience with stuff like this, but I'm going to force > myself. For example, my pupil is still somewhat dilated from the > surgery, which makes some things just a little blurry. > > One recommendation - if you ever need eye surgery, don't watch > "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" the night before like I did. About > two-thirds of the way through the movie, the Johnny Depp > character gets his eyeballs drilled out. > > I have a pair of $5 glasses I bought at the hardware store that > work great for reading and viewing the monitor, and should get > back into PyKDE and related stuff early next week. I noticed a > couple PyKDE-related posts to the list, which I'll respond to > then if still necessary. > > Otherwise, I have 20/15 (about 6/5 for you metric fans) vision in > both eyes (without glasses), which means my acuity for distance > is better than 20/20 - really cool. Colors are also much > brighter, but now I can see all the stains on my shirts I > couldn't see before. I'll probably still need glasses for > reading, etc., since my lenses are now hard plastic and can't > accomodate for near vision (no zoom lenses yet - sorry). > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > PyKDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
