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Cataract implants? I went from legally blind to 20/20 in a week.
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Badfinger
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Thanks, that's inspirational. Yes, cataract surgery on both eyes,
cheers, Bill
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They did the left eye first, then the right eye, a week later.
I did not realize I was not seeing the world in 3D until it was done.
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Badfinger
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You had cataract implants? Weird. My wife had her cataracts removed. ๐คช
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Cataracts were replaced with lenses inside eye. They are shaped to accommodate eye just as external lenses are shaped. In my case, no special shaping was required.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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BillWoodruff wrote: Maybe with new eyes (surgery next week), it will look better ?
Oh great - you've needed them for years now. 
Herself had her cataract op three weeks ago, and we had to take one of the lenses out of her "walk about" glasses so she could see clearly two weeks ago as the correction it applied meant she could see with her left eye with the glasses on, but not her right, or with her right eye with them off, but not her left.
The op is pretty trivial in surgical terms - about 15 minutes total:
Drops to open the iris fully
Ultrasound to break up the old lens (emulsification)
A tiny hole in the eye big enough to get a syringe needle through
Suck out the old lens
Insert the new lens through the tube and open it up
Remove needle. She had a headache for a few hours, a red eye for a few days and that was that. Sleeping with a cup taped over her eye for a week (so that she didn't rub the eye on the pillow), eyedrops for four weeks, then back to the opticians for new glasses prescription 6 weeks after the op. She got improvement from day two, and her sight just got better as the inflammation of her eye faded away over a week.
Just don't try to drive home afterwards ...
The money is really well spent - don't know what it costs in Thailand, it was a total of ยฃ2700 / US$3100 in the UK (or a four year wait for a free op on the NHS thanks to the Covid induced delays!) but I don't regret it at all. It makes a real difference pretty much immediately.
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OriginalGriff wrote: ยฃ2700 / US$3100 in the UK
And I was thinking that health care here is bad... For my mom it was 0 NIS and 2 month of waiting (+2 weeks between eyes)...
Two years after she still has 20/20 vision...
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Normally, it would be free and fairly quick to arrange, but Covid put a stop to all non-life-threatening operations for two years, and a backlog built up.
The wait to see the NHS specialist is 18 months to 2 years, then about the same again before the actual op. Since she's also got a very small cataract growing in her left eye, she would probably have been completely blind long before that so we elected to go private, and it was done within two weeks. The other one can wait as it isn't interfering with her sight yet.
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Thanks, Griff, because of possible macular degeneration in the right eye, the surgeon tells me that she can't predict outcome until she removes the cataract; prognosis for the left eye is good. For other complex health reasons, i'll have both eyes done at the same time under general anesthesia.
Happy to tell you my surgeon is the top eye specialist in northern Thailand. Probably a better class of surgeon than I i would get on MediCare in the US. Expensive ... as you may know, the US MediCare system will cover no medical costs for a citizen living outside the US.
cheers, bill
ยซThe mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindledยป Plutarch
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I know I have been hanging on this site for too long a time when there start to be threads about cataract op in the Lounge. 
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I know the feeling ... Herself is currently curled up on the sofa under a blanket suffering from her Covid Booster yesterday. She must be feeling pretty ill, she's awake and not screaming abuse at the TV ...
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May such threads always seem irrelevant to you, Brother Rage !
ยซThe mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindledยป Plutarch
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Ever thought how hard it might be to code with cataracts?
I don't think I'd be able to, at all. That's scary ...
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ditto
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Badfinger
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that my experience
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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#Worldle #234 1/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
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How come these are so easy for you?
I failed. But geographically so close!
#Worldle #235 X/6 (99%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I don't guess until I have fully scanned the globe for a possible match. I use Google Maps in Terrain mode to minimize clutter and better see the the borders. Also, like the last one, the clue did not have the actual border line but its the actual geometry. The border crossed over some water which was not part of the clue. Tricky but by spending my time looking for a match I reduce the guesses.
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Badfinger
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Looking at a map! I strongly doubt you are supposed to do that...
I never do. I see it as a game of knowledge/memory. I mean, that method would be like looking at word-lists for Wordle.
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Sorry, I didn't see any rules against it. Am I banished?
I learn much more about world geometry my way.
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Badfinger
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If it is competition without maps then I can do that too. I just don't learn as much.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Well... I have not seen any "rules". But I feel it does seem to go against the spirit of the game. Just imagine looking at a huge 5-letter-dictionary while playing Wordle! 
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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ok I will try the guessing route from time to time as competition and post those, but I still enjoy looking at maps much better than a dictionary of words and I always finish without a break.
I do enjoy the challenge of wordle.
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Badfinger
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And you can learn even more if you read about the countries after your guesses!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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True. And I do.
As a kid, I did crossword puzzles of the individual continents and the whole world, multiple times.
I guess it's just a habit.
I love maps.
Your home country has a complicated map.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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