Update on my eyes




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Sorry for the slow posting this week. I plan on getting a new video out by Friday though. 

My eyes have never been great; I have worn glasses or contacts my entire life.  A few years ago, I noticed that contacts were not working anymore so I went almost entirely to glasses. As time went on, my left eye's vision started deteriorating rapidly and the doctor told me I had the onset of a cataract.  It was an uncorrectable situation without surgery--no glasses or contact would get that eye seeing well.

Over the past few years, that eye became useless both for distance and reading.  At times, this bothered me a lot, especially when working on a computer.  I kept putting off cataract surgery though because of a number of reasons. 

The primary reason was uncertainty about the result.  Cataract surgery involves removing the natural lens from the eye and replacing it with an artificial lens.  In an older person with deteriorating vision, it is an obvious decision.  In a younger person, it is not so simple.  Most of the artificial lens used in cataract surgery cannot adjust to different distances.  They are designed for either long distance or reading, but not both.  Today, new technology has led to multi-focal lens which do allow the eyes to focus for different distances, but the results have not been consistent. 

So, my dilemma was not just when to do the surgery but what kind of lens to implant.  Essentially, I needed to decide whether to use new, better technology with the risk of an unsatisfactory result or the more consistent but inferior technology that would eliminate my eye's ability to focus.

I finally decided to take a gamble and go with the advanced lens (Crystalens) and I had the surgery on Monday.  It kept me down for a day but I am back in the saddle now.  So far, I am very happy with the results.  I am seeing 20/25 out of that eye and normally, vision improves a lot over the first month as your eye adjusts to the lens. 

Really, I am kicking myself for not doing this before.  It is just magical to have that vision back.  Many times, I have thought about how blessed we are to live in an age where this kind of surgery is possible.  Most people that live a full life will get cataracts; think about all of the people throughout history that had no treatment option.  Essentially, they slowly went blind.

And it is further blessing that we can have this surgery within an hour in an outpatient facility with no pain and almost no downtime.  It is really an amazing thing.

So anyway, unless something goes wrong, you won't see me in glasses any more.  The eye that was fixed does not need anything now and I am wearing a contact in my right eye.



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