After the surgery

Here I write after the cataract surgery with a big, thick patch on my right eye and reading glasses perched on the very tip of my nose. Sort of a cumbersome way to write this blog but necessary given the circumstances.

I went in as an out patient and was on the street by 11:30. By request they put me out like a light so I can relate nothing until I awoke about 10:55. At first I felt just fine but then a creeping headache made itself known. Not real bad but sufficiently strong to make itself known and unwelcome. It reminded me of hypoxia headaches and maybe it was because they told SAM I had breathing difficulties. The patch was not as bad as I had imagined it to be but still it is hard to put up with until it is removed tomorrow PM. The told me I could prerform any duties I felt like and there were no special precautions except to leave the patch on and do not rub the area.

Tomorrow we get to see the results and I hope they are good. I have been used to perfect pilot vision all my adult life so anything less will be a disappointment. Right now I am reading a good sailing book by Tristan Jones – Saga of a Wayward Sailor. The things that man survived are amazing. I’ll write more later as it is taxing to concentrate and focus the sight.