Each time my glasses prescription changed was a new revelation / though I don't remember my 1st pair of glasses at 18 months of age. According to family lore, I'd stumbled over a rock almost as large as me - and I got the glasses after surgery to straighten my left, lazy eye. Years of intermittent patches on my right, "good", eye did little to help the vision in my lazy eye - or to make my eyes work together.
I was essentially, legally, blind in that eye - until my first cataract surgery In Sept 2013. As an artist, I could not believe how much color had drained from my vision. But more astonishing was being able to recognize the leaves on the tree in front of the house across the street ... and the trees in their back yard, edging out from behind the house! I could clearly see the individual leaves & distinguish the varying shades of green from the deepest teal to some leaf rims edging toward yellow & rust, while the undersides were still a paler yellowish green.
Three months later, after my right cataract surgery, as the vision in that eye became clearer, I realized I had true depth perception - my eyes worked together for the very first time - at age 64! Totally unexpectedly, my eyes worked in concert, surprising my eye surgeon. Although I've lost a little vision in my left eye. I continue to see better at age 75, than I did for most of my life! 20/20 vision in my right eye. 20/200 in my left. For someone who spent so many years with so-so vision in one eye - every day is a miracle!
The day after my first cataract surgery I went out for my walk along the big farm down the road. I walked along the green hay field just starting to grow hay.
I was stunned at the blue sky and the clouds. It was overwhelming to have this view of the familiar, which had slowly lost its magic over time. And I hadn’t really noticed it until it came back.
Luminous! Elected to The Best Yet!
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Each time my glasses prescription changed was a new revelation / though I don't remember my 1st pair of glasses at 18 months of age. According to family lore, I'd stumbled over a rock almost as large as me - and I got the glasses after surgery to straighten my left, lazy eye. Years of intermittent patches on my right, "good", eye did little to help the vision in my lazy eye - or to make my eyes work together.
I was essentially, legally, blind in that eye - until my first cataract surgery In Sept 2013. As an artist, I could not believe how much color had drained from my vision. But more astonishing was being able to recognize the leaves on the tree in front of the house across the street ... and the trees in their back yard, edging out from behind the house! I could clearly see the individual leaves & distinguish the varying shades of green from the deepest teal to some leaf rims edging toward yellow & rust, while the undersides were still a paler yellowish green.
Three months later, after my right cataract surgery, as the vision in that eye became clearer, I realized I had true depth perception - my eyes worked together for the very first time - at age 64! Totally unexpectedly, my eyes worked in concert, surprising my eye surgeon. Although I've lost a little vision in my left eye. I continue to see better at age 75, than I did for most of my life! 20/20 vision in my right eye. 20/200 in my left. For someone who spent so many years with so-so vision in one eye - every day is a miracle!
The day after my first cataract surgery I went out for my walk along the big farm down the road. I walked along the green hay field just starting to grow hay.
I was stunned at the blue sky and the clouds. It was overwhelming to have this view of the familiar, which had slowly lost its magic over time. And I hadn’t really noticed it until it came back.