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When I was being interviewed before my cataract removal surgery I was asked what sports I participate in.
The only thing that I could think of was to tell them that I like shooting pistols.
From the way they reacted that just was not one of the top five answers that they normally hear although it might be more of a reason to get normal eye sight back.
That is why I was more interested in getting my right eye corrected first.
Being as I am right eye dominant it was becoming harder to see the sights on the pistol as clearly while lining them up to what I was trying to hit on a target.
I woke up on about day three after the surgery and my sight was clear again in my right eye.
I unloaded a pistol and aimed it at a hanging on the wall across the room.
IT WAS SO EASY TO AIM THE PISTOL!
I get my left eye worked on this Thursday and if it’s like my right one I should wait a week before going to the range.
My wife suggested that I wait another week so that I can take one of our sons along when he is home for Christmas.
I can wait that extra week or two for a good reason like that.
 

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GP44 said:
When I was being interviewed before my cataract removal surgery I was asked what sports I participate in.
The only thing that I could think of was to tell them that I like shooting pistols.
From the way they reacted that just was not one of the top five answers that they normally hear although it might be more of a reason to get normal eye sight back.
That is why I was more interested in getting my right eye corrected first.
Being as I am right eye dominant it was becoming harder to see the sights on the pistol as clearly while lining them up to what I was trying to hit on a target.
I woke up on about day three after the surgery and my sight was clear again in my right eye.
I unloaded a pistol and aimed it at a hanging on the wall across the room.
IT WAS SO EASY TO AIM THE PISTOL!
I get my left eye worked on this Thursday and if it’s like my right one I should wait a week before going to the range.
My wife suggested that I wait another week so that I can take one of our sons along when he is home for Christmas.
I can wait that extra week or two for a good reason like that.
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Great to hear. I am recovering from cataract surgery right now myself.

I like my music, and I like to read. Don't need eyes for the music really (well, very much) but for reading.... yeah.

My main issue right now is that my glasses are no longer right, and so my vision for details isn't good. They say it gets better, we'll see.
 

I'm experiencing macular degeneration which is making it difficult for me to read. I can't read more than three or four pages in a book before my eyes get tired, so I've been listening to audiobooks instead. My optometrist told me to take MacuHealth to slow the deterioration, so I've been taking that for the past few years. I don't know if it's doing any good or if I'm just wasting money. I don't like the idea of surgery on my eyes. I also have a stigmatism. Sometimes even posting in this forum can take a bit of effort.
 
I also like shooting but another thing that has gone by the wayside since the X left.... altho' I do still have my guns and the shooting range is quite close to where I live...

What do I like to do ?...I certainly don't do any sports any more at this age.... instead I like taking photographs...... at every opportunity I get...

I did like driving everywhere and anywhere including opposite sides of the roads in foreign countries , until this year when someone decided I shouldn't be allowed on the road, and crashed into me totalling my car and landing me in hospital.. and it's knocked my confidence now...
 
RambleTamble said:
I'm experiencing macular degeneration which is making it difficult for me to read. I can't read more than three or four pages in a book before my eyes get tired, so I've been listening to audiobooks instead. My optometrist told me to take MacuHealth to slow the deterioration, so I've been taking that for the past few years. I don't know if it's doing any good or if I'm just wasting money. I don't like the idea of surgery on my eyes. I also have a stigmatism. Sometimes even posting in this forum can take a bit of effort.
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I also feared the surgery. And you know, it's not the best experience. That said, they use local anesthetic to numb things. I was worried about watching a scalpel coming toward my eye, but in reality all I saw was a bright light (a tunnel I decided not to go down!)

But seriously, it takes perhaps 15 minutes, and you're done.

I'm sure you know this web site:

New treatments in the pipeline
 
I enjoy just puttering around without any need to accomplish much of anything other than finishing the box of ice cream in the freezer or the bag of cookies in the bread box. 😉🤭😂

I used to enjoy hunting down books, maps, and trinkets relating to local history but collecting and owning ‘stuff’ has become a burden to me as I’ve gotten older.

I still do a bit of research and enjoy discovering new items but no longer feel the need to acquire them.

I’ve been diagnosed with macular degeneration but so far have been able to adapt.
 
Imogene said:
Horses —- my entire life.

This fellow was born on my parents farm and stayed with me until his last breath when he was 29 years old, I raised him and trained him, under the guiding hands of my grandfather. He was 11 and I was 24 in this old photo.

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I was lucky to have a friend and neighbor who had two horses. She rode the more spirited one and I rode the gentle girl. The bridal path went through the woods and along a couple of pretty lakes.
 
VaughanJB said:
Great to hear. I am recovering from cataract surgery right now myself.

I like my music, and I like to read. Don't need eyes for the music really (well, very much) but for reading.... yeah.

My main issue right now is that my glasses are no longer right, and so my vision for details isn't good. They say it gets better, we'll see.
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I still try to wear my glasses after only having one eye fixed.
They told me that I won’t need glasses after it is all finished with but for right now I definitely need them for up close.
I was going to only have my right eye worked on because my left eye wasn’t nearly as bad but after seeing how well I can see with the right eye I decided to have the left one fixed too.
I still use drops for MDF too!
 
Babs2u said:
I was lucky to have a friend and neighbor who had two horses. She rode the more spirited one and I rode the gentle girl. The bridal path went through the woods and along a couple of pretty lakes.
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We rented horses at a riding path place in Florida and the one I got would stop and wait for the others to get by and then take a shortcut.
My son said that I was supposed to control the horse better than that but being as old as I was I understood and just loved that old horse.
 
VaughanJB said:
I also feared the surgery. And you know, it's not the best experience. That said, they use local anesthetic to numb things. I was worried about watching a scalpel coming toward my eye, but in reality all I saw was a bright light (a tunnel I decided not to go down!)

But seriously, it takes perhaps 15 minutes, and you're done.

I'm sure you know this web site:

New treatments in the pipeline
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The wheeled me under the laser and adjusted it down and aimed it.
I held my eye as far open as I could and the laser broke up the cataract.
All I saw was a ring of lights before the laser started working and it was just a scramble of green colored light zipping around.
Then they wheeled me aside and the Dr. did the removal and inserted the lens.
It was all over with before I knew it.
They sent me over to the doctors office that afternoon and then I went home and took a short nap.
Slept good with a protective cup taped over my eye and the initial pain was gone by the next morning.
I wore the protective cup over my eye for 5-7 nights when I slept and that was all there was to it.
 
I like talking and laughing with family and friends. I like to listen to and compose music, relax in my recliner and watch my favorite T.V. shows, playing Words With Friends, Cody Cross and other games on my phone and tablet and shopping (anywhere will do). I also like being by bodies of water, preferably the Atlantic ocean, but the Hudson River in the Hoboken and Jersey City, N.J. waterfront areas are a good substitute when I can't get to the ocean. I like eating at restaurants from time to time (I like the act of being served 🙂). And I love eating ice cream.
 
Hike, backpack, mountain landscape photography, snow ski. And dynamic solo freestyle dancer for 5+ decades. Below video shows a Greek gal that has a loose, bilateral Earth creature, 4 limb body, balanced, resonant, freestyle dancing style. All serious dancers have been doing various forms of this, for decades, Hollywood choreographers teach such movements, but has been relatively uncommon socially for a few decades outside regions with serious dancers except with lindy hop pair dancers, break dancers, and hip hop. If you can dance like her, you can dance with me.

 
I like to do lots of things...spin wool, knit, paint watercolors, write short stories, read and watch really good history shows and docus on tv. Genealogy is right near the top of the list.
 

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