Category: Everyday Life

What’s up these days

Finally I could have a lens implanted to replace the lens in my right eye! I hadn’t been able to see well since the surgeries I had last summer, after I had a detachment of the retina. This time I also had to have surgery and stayed in the hospital for six days. I want to write about the details of my eye’s condition later, all at once, after I can make new glasses and contact lenses: after my right eyesight becomes stable. Happy, happy.

During the time I didn’t have a lens in my right eye, my left eye was severely nearsighted (as usual) and the right was farsighted. Now the right eye has become so-so nearsighted, after I got the new lens; and, of course, the left hasn’t changed. Things in our body that have right and left shouldn’t have a huge difference between them: that’s not good.

However, I can’t say my right eye is completely the same as before. It can’t be same where they fixed the torn retina: the scarred part of the retina is a dark patch in my vision. What should be straight I see as a distorted shape. And because I’m not yet used to using both eyes at once, I feel sick sometimes. (In particular, I can’t look at a computer display for a long time!)

Anyway, it’s very good that I still have sight in my right eye!

– YS, 19 June 2007

19 June 2007