No thank you as food prices are already insane and California showed what will happen when you raise minimum wage to $20 dollars. Staff is laid off and prices go up again.
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A common practice is to keep one eye slightly myopic and the other one with the nominal correction - or so I've been told. That way, you can still see well from a distance and read without glasses at the same time.BTW, I decided to keep my -4 myopia, as I'm used to that and can comfortably read without glasses.
Thanks for asking! (I had raised this topic earlier.) I would still ask for narcosis, because of the following: May be I have too vivid imagination, but seeing sharp instruments getting near my eye would scare me deeply, even if I knew, that it wouldn't hurt.I asked my ophthalmologist about using narcosis for the operation (not because I wanted that, just out of interest). We very rarely do that in Norway. Usually only for people with Down's syndrome or others who can't understand what's happening. (We similarly often had to use narcosis in these cases when performing xray examinations).
But he said it's common in Germany. That worries me because: 1) Increased risk for complications with general anesthesia (yes, occasionally people die even under minor surgical interventions). 2) It's a waste of resources.
I would never ask for general anesthesia for procedures like this.
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Now that they replaced the lenses, do you also get the accommodation back to some extent? I thought it was the case, but I'm not sure since you said progressive glasses were still necessary.Left eye operated today. Like the last time, it went very smoothly. So everything is on the green. Or rather, since cataract do disturb color vision, after surgery everything is less blue.
Still a bit cloudy on the left, but that's temporary. I expect to see even more of the wife's wrinkles this time tomorrow.
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This. I don't think I could undergo that procedure while awake.Thanks for asking! (I had raised this topic earlier.) I would still ask for narcosis, because of the following: May be I have too vivid imagination, but seeing sharp instruments getting near my eye would scare me deeply, even if I knew, that it wouldn't hurt.
Can confirm about the brain being able to trick you with eyesight. Or something like that.A common practice is to keep one eye slightly myopic and the other one with the nominal correction - or so I've been told. That way, you can still see well from a distance and read without glasses at the same time.
It's a little uncomfortable at first, but the brain quickly tricks you into believing both eyes see well in any situation. Sometimes, the eye which doesn't see well tends to get out of focus a little, which must look funny; it takes some practice to keep it focused when that happens. But in general, it's very convenient.
Yes, it's fortunate it can adapt, especially with all those little things thrown at us.Can confirm about the brain being able to trick you with eyesight. Or something like that.
I have varying degrees of astigmatism in both eyes, but my left eye also has a wrinkled retina caused by an embolism in the back of the eyeball. If I close my right eye then lines appear to have little wobbles in them. It's sometimes hard for me to tell the difference between 3, 6, 8, or 9. And plenty of other character combinations.
But open both eyes (with my glasses on, of course), everything looks fine. I assume my right eye is overcompensating, because at the end of the day it seems to get a bit tired and the wobbles start to appear again.
Can't say I'm particularly brave. Around 40 000 operations in Norway each year (20 000 patients), very rarely with narcosis. I suppose a number of them were quite anxious before the procedure but afterwards there are few patient groups more satisfied after treatment (my vision is almost normal now, one day after surgery).I'm glad it went well, pibbuR. You're far braver than I, the mere idea of someone fiddling with my eyes would sent me into a panic.