As some of you may have noticed, I'm getting older. In fact, near the end of this year I reach level 70.
This of course also mean that my organs are getting older. But not necessarily at the same rate. My skeleton is up to 10 years old. My skin (outer layer) no more than 4 weeks, and my intestines (inner layer) are not the same as those before the weekend. All these organs/tissues renew themselves.
But my lenses (in the eyes) don't. And as they get older, they tend to be more and more cloudy, and in this case, the cloud is not a good thing. It's now time to do something about it, so next Wednesday my ophthalmologist will cut open my right eye, mash the interior (hopefully restricted to the lens) and replace said thingy with a synthetic one. Two weeks after, up comes the left eye.
Improved vision is expected. Better colours - finally I can appreciate HDR. Driving at night becomes piece of cake (again). And of course, I will finally realize (by looking at her face) how old the wife is (I will of course inform her).
pibbuR who is satisfied that he will still be able to read books without wearing glasses.
PS. What? Me worry? Definitely not. The procedure is routine (the clinic perform more than 3000 lens replacements each year) and it involves just local anesthesia. DS
PPS. Back then, in the eighties, when I finished med school, they did the extraction, but not the replacement. So patients lost around +13 refraction power and therefore had to wear veeery thick glasses. DS.