I went on June 4, 2024 and they have scheduled
surgery for Aug 29.
Quite a wait.
They're going to replace both my lenses on my
eyes and the result on the left is free and that
on the right is 4100 frogskins per eye and if
you do one, the other has to be the fancy one.
Frankly, I want to see the little dog there and
I paid more than 8200 for my AC. I don't want
blurry vision after going to the trouble of two
operations. I also saw Eddie and drove home half
blind from dilated eyes and Kookie lend me your
comb shades. It has been a long day.I'm paying
the 8,200 dollars. I don't want blurry vision.
$5,000 per eye
(Actually $4100) Medicare does not cover the
cost of specialized multifocal or
trifocal lenses like PanOptix1.
Patients are required to pay an
out-of-pocket expense for it, which
can be as high as $5,000 per eye2.
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Eddie June 4, 2024.jpg
Speaking of
cataracts. Mark Twain said at Niagra Falls,
"Is the heart of the forest maiden heavy? Is
the Laughing Tadpole lonely? Does she mourn
over the extinguished council-fires of her
race, and the vanished glory of her ancestors?
Or does her sad spirit wander afar toward the
hunting-grounds whither her brave
Gobbler-of-the-Lightnings is gone? Why is my
daughter silent? Has she aught against the
paleface stranger?"
The maiden said:
"Faix, an' is it Biddy Malone ye dare to be
callin' names? Lave this, or I'll shy your
lean carcass over the cataract, ye sniveling
blaggard!"
What a relief! I just had surgery. I had
the lens removed from my right eye. I
developed a cataract and my vision was
really blurry. They replaced the lens and
much to my surprise I could see perfectly.
I had no idea that it would be a success
like that, but I had one fear. It was
possible that NASA was going to want my
lens for the Hubbard telescope. A Google
search, however, seemed to suggest that
they were not looking for a new lens. What
a relief. Har har. That's the joke I told
people and, no, it didn't get a lot of
laughs.
But there's more and it isn't any joke at
all. After the surgery, something occurred
to me that was really bothersome; I had
forgotten to ask the surgeon to keep the
lens for me! It was my lens and I wanted
to 7. Me sacaron el lente de mi ojo
¡Qué alivio! Acabo de tener una cirugía.
Me sacaron el lente del ojo derecho. Yo
tenía una catarata y tenía la vista
borrosa. Reemplazaron el lente y pude ver
perfectamente para gran sorpresa mía. No
tenía ni idea de qué fuera a ser un éxito
como eso, pero tenía un miedo. Era posible
que la NASA vaya a querer mi lente para el
telescopio Hubbard. Una búsqueda por medio
de San Google, sin embargo, parece sugerir
que no están en busca de un nuevo lente.
Que alivio. Ja ja. Ése es el chiste que le
conté a la gente y no, no provocó muchas
risas.
Pero hay más. Y no es una broma para nada.
Después de la cirugía algo se me ocurrió
que me molestaba mucho. Se me había
olvidado pedir al cirujano que me guardara
el lente para mí. Era mi lente y yo quería
tenerlo. Yo soy una especie de rata
cambalachera, una persona que le gusta
acaparar las cosas y que tiene muchas
cachivaches. No me have it. I am a bit of
a pack rat, a person who likes to horde
things and has a lot of knicknacks and
doodads. I couldn't kick myself hard
enough for missing such an important
opportunity. Later, to my relief I found
out something important. I was talking on
the phone with someone at the surgery
center and told her I was sorry I didn't
take the opportunity to have this
souvenir. She told me that the surgeon
always removes the lens with a laser. The
laser dissolves the lens and not even tiny
bits of it remain.
"Yes!" I replied happily. "How could
I have forgotten that?"
What a relief! I have enough regrets and
now I have nothing to regret.
***
Well, before I finish, I think it's
important to explain what happens before
and during the surgery:
1. There is an injection that puts you to
sleep for a minute.
2. When you're asleep, the surgeon puts a
few drops of something in your eye and
suddenly you can't feel or SEE anything
with that eye. (You wake up not knowing
you had been sleeping.)
3. The surgeon (without telling you
anything) starts using the laser to
pulverize the lens and somehow extract the
pieces. podía patear suficientemente
fuerte por haber perdido esa oportunidad
importante. Más tarde, para alivio mío me
enteré de algo importante. Estaba
platicando en el teléfono con alguien en
el centro de cirugía y le dije que me
lamentaba de no haber aprovechado la
oportunidad de tener este recuerdo. Ella
me dijo que el cirujano siempre saca el
lente con un láser. El láser disuelve el
lente y no queda ni un trocito de él.
—¡Sí! —yo dije—. ¿Cómo se me podría haber
olvidado esto?
¡Qué alivio! Tengo suficientes
remordimientos y ahora no tengo nada nuevo
para lamentar.
***
Bueno, antes de terminar, creo que es
importante explicar lo que pasa antes de y
durante la cirugía:
1. Hay una inyección que le hace dormir
por un minuto.
2. Cuando está dormido el cirujano pone
algunas gotas de algo en su ojo y de
repente no puede sentir ni VER nada con
él. (Ud. despierta sin haber sabido que
había estado durmiendo.)
3. El cirujano (sin decirle nada) empieza
a usar el láser para pulverizar el lente y
extraer los trocitos de alguna manera.
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