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My "fun day" tomorrow
As I've mentioned before I worked for many years in a radiation environment. Much of this was before the risk of eye exposure was taken seriously, so no lead glass lenses in safety glasses until my career was half over. The thought then was the dose needed to do eye damage was high. Recent research says this was vastly mistaken.
Bottom line is that a couple years ago I started developing radiation induced cataracts in both eyes. They're presumed to be radiation cataracts because of the way they're forming, my documented exposure and the lack of family history. Had a couple strong exposures in there plus 2 UV flash exposures (arcs).
The left eye is far worse, now to the point where everything's a blur; looks like I'm seeing through a filter thinly coated with Vaseline. The right is much further behind which is why I can still read and function, but with greatly reduced depth perception.
This has made it a bit difficult to do photography and videography, though not impossible. A big part of why my activities there have reduced in the last couple of years.
Quite a difference from the better than normal vision I had a few years ago.
Anyhow....tomorrow (Wednesday 8/2 at 12:30 local time) I have my first surgery to repair the left eye. At some date down the road they'll do the right eye.
The new lenses: they'll focus instead of having a fixed focus as with older implants.
I'll be a cyborg
Bottom line is that a couple years ago I started developing radiation induced cataracts in both eyes. They're presumed to be radiation cataracts because of the way they're forming, my documented exposure and the lack of family history. Had a couple strong exposures in there plus 2 UV flash exposures (arcs).
The left eye is far worse, now to the point where everything's a blur; looks like I'm seeing through a filter thinly coated with Vaseline. The right is much further behind which is why I can still read and function, but with greatly reduced depth perception.
This has made it a bit difficult to do photography and videography, though not impossible. A big part of why my activities there have reduced in the last couple of years.
Quite a difference from the better than normal vision I had a few years ago.
Anyhow....tomorrow (Wednesday 8/2 at 12:30 local time) I have my first surgery to repair the left eye. At some date down the road they'll do the right eye.
The new lenses: they'll focus instead of having a fixed focus as with older implants.
I'll be a cyborg
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