There is
only one way to truly appreciate another person’s sight problems and that is to
have them yourself. When you lose the
sight in one eye, albeit temporarily, your brain works overtime to put things
right. You are not left with half your
vision but more like a third as you lose all of the one side and the part in
the middle where your eyes work together is messed up by the blind eye and
confuses the total picture. My “good” eye is also affected by cataract. As the days pass the brain does manage to
make adjustments. I guess that this
means that when I have my new lens implanted new adjustments will have to be
made. All of this I can happily tolerate in order to have my sight restored. It
puts a whole new emphasis on the poets words, “look they last on all things
lovely every hour.”
One more thing I have decided, the complication
with my original operation was in no way the fault of the surgeon and I am more
than happy for him to do the operation on my second eye once I pluck up the courage
to have it done. Doctors are human and cannot get things right every single time
and we should not expect them too. I am
convinced there was no negligence, it was just one of those things.
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