Rivers Have Cataracts Too

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It was so warm last night I couldn't sleep under any covers. There is a good reason, it's as warm early this morning as its gonna be all day and for the foreseeable future. Oh, joy! There is a huge cold front arriving just behind this gale-force wind, and the weather reports say that the Sun will be out by mid-morning and there won't be any clouds to hold the heat down to earth.

With my appointment with the eye surgeon coming up just after lunch tomorrow I'm anticipating what my options will be in regard to the lenses available to me through the VA. I may not have much of a choice about the multi focal lenses. The more I read about the positive and negative aspects of them, the more the simple clear replacement lens appear to be the most practical solution to replacing the cataracts.

Several times in the last couple of weeks when I've mentioned that I was due to have the eye surgery for cataracts the people I talked to mentioned some beloved older person in their life getting the same procedure done. Both people added, "... just before they died." The prospect of getting the procedure done as the harbinger of death is not so scary to me.

With my real question being: What if I live? What if I don't die for another twenty years? My mother did, and my father almost did. They did a lot more living even after the thrill was gone.

The choice of lens is something I've tried to familiarize myself with. The one thing I don't wanna happen is for me to regret I didn't know my options, and could have made a better choice simply by the asking. My friends and kin folk are trying to help me by telling me what they've experienced with their own eyesight.

I've never worn contact lens due to having been far-sighted. I only needed reading glasses when I reached my early forties just like many people, but some of the people around me did use contact lens and they have tried many of the features on the outside of their eyes that I might encounter with the lens the surgeon puts inside my eyeballs.

One of the options I may encounter with mono focal clear lens that are designed to simply replace the cataracts. The surgeon can use lens of various magnifications that will allow me to be naturally far-sighted and only need eyeglasses for close work like reading or working at the computer or near-sighted and always need eyeglasses to see long distances like for driving a car.

My friend who wears contact lens claimed that not being able to see long distances clearly is a disadvantage compared to being able to see close up as far as he is concerned, and I'm starting to understand his reasoning. This topic is what has me hyped up about my appointment tomorrow. Not that hyped up.

Right now I'm thinking more about how cold it's gonna be by tomorrow morning. I took a shower this morning since it's still half-way warm. Tomorrow it will be too cold. I don't live in a well-heated house. I got two small space heaters. One for this room, and another for downstairs in the kitchen to keep the water pipes from freezing.

The problem with the cold weather has a lot to do with getting thin-skinned due to the aging process. My skin is naturally losing the collagen and subcutaneous fat that makes a sexy young person's skin smooth and touchable. The subcutaneous fat insulates humans just like it does whales and walruses. If it ain't there (in my case, it ain't), then cold weather can be tormentuous.

I'll put on some clean clothes tomorrow, and use mouthwash, and I'll probably get by. People don't expect elderly men to smell like they're trying to get a young girl to go out with them for a night on the town. It may even provide the hospital staff with a good enough reason to keep us at a distance. No blame.

One of the aspects of getting the cataracts removed and possibly being able to see clearly again will be the ability to see just how pretty the young girls can be, but I like to see old people clearly too. Maybe I'll be able to read palms better.

Yeah, I know I've written that I don't read people's palms any more because it turns out to be mere projection of myself upon them. But, if I don't have any option but to see my own idea of myself in other people, I at least wanna see myself in them as clearly as possible.

I didn't think I had any real problems when I got my first prescription glasses until I put them on. The ophthalmologist who recommended me for the cataract surgery told me several times, "You're gonna be real happy after this operation." I sure do hope he's right.

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