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Posted by lucille on May 12, 2009, 2:05 pm
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> lucretiaborgia@fl.it wrote:
>>> Hello Group
>>> Later this year I'll be having cataracts removed from both
>>> my eyes.
>>> I'd like to hear from other stitchers with knowledge and/or
>>> experience on how this surgery effected their
>>> needlework hobby. I know everyone is different, but
>>> I like to hear about your experiences.
>>> mag
>>> Oregon
>> Strange - I just had my first one done last Friday. Nothing to fear
>> with the doing of it, all I could see was a psychedelic light show, no
>> pain.
>> It's a bit wonky at the moment because only one eye is done, but I am
>> not wearing glasses or contacts.
>> I haven't done any needlework yet although I am knitting a sweater for
>> a two year old without problems. I am hoping that when the second is
>> done in about three weeks I shall be able to go back to needlework.
> I was thinking of you, and wondering how it went.I think the thing I
> disliked the most was the first night, when it was all bandaged. The other
> thing was the nuisance of taking all the eye drops as prescribed. The
> procedure itself was a breeze; I think they had put a little Valium in the
> IV...I remember being very relaxed.
> I have been shortsighted since I was 7 years old, so I had them make the
> new lenses the reverse from usual. I am used to reading and writing, and
> stitching without glasses, and am used to wearing them for driving. So we
> kept it like that.
> Gillian
Same thing for me. I almost always need sunglasses outdoors here in sunny
FL and I just wear prescription lenses
. I am having another problem in one eye, totally unrelated to the
cataract surgery, so I wear magnifying glasses for needlework, but it hasn't
changed anything much at all and I still read without glasses.
Lucille.
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>Later this year I'll be having cataracts removed from both
>my eyes.
>I'd like to hear from other stitchers with knowledge and/or
>experience on how this surgery effected their
>needlework hobby. I know everyone is different, but
>I like to hear about your experiences.
>mag
>Oregon