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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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