Tomorrow (at an ungodly hour) I have my second cataract surgery scheduled. I don’t have as much foreboding about it as I did the first but I don’t look forward to it nonetheless.
My left eye, the one that has already been operated on, is presently in a bizarre inbetween state. There is a notable difference among the vision using that eye alone, the vision using both eyes (with or without glasses), and the vision with my right eye (with or without glasses). With my left eye without my glasses I can read from a distance of about nine inches or closer but the lines of print are sort of wavy. With my glasses I can’t read at all using that eye. With my right eye I can read fairly normally with or without my glasses. My vision is slightly fuzzy now with or without my glasses.
Colors as seen by my left eye are noticeably different. They’re brighter, clearer. As seen by my right eye I now perceive a sort of yellowish tinge to them.
I suspect that this “inbetween” condition will continue for the next month (at least) until I get my new prescription glasses. That will make my regular considerable volume of reading that much more difficult if not completely impossible.
For someone like me, accustomed to spending much of every day reading, that prospect is more disorienting than the surgery itself
