A Sight

I was going to write about Something Completely Different…

Then I went and got my first eye ‘did’ = cataract surgery!    Which was a welcome diagnosis since, less than 2 years ago, I was told I had NO cataracts… so when my eyesight started failing … well you might imagine what terrors ensued.  So much so that I simply… couldn’t.  I knew I would go see an opthalmologist at some point but, like a goober, chose to have free-floating anxiety about alternative ocular drama (bad macula! Aliens replacing my eyeballs with hard-boiled eggs!)…

But! turns out my macular (both) are just FINE.  I just have cataracts.  YAY!

So.  First surgery was this past Friday.  Poor surgeon.  Luckily I told him about my absolutely insane self ( my tendency to flash a ridiculously high BP, busting through the ‘twilight’ sedative, etc).  He was patient… but skeptical… until both things happened.  Poor surgeon.   But we got through it – in fact we SAILED through it (apparently I am not his first disco – imagine that! 😉  6 minutes, tops!  Totally painless.  A friend suggested I watch some videos of the procedure.  I.. (very politely) suggested she do something anatomical with THAT suggestion.  I still don’t know how they do it – and I don’t wanna know because a week from this Thursday is Eye Two.

But!  OMG!  Apparently… apparently the colors I was seeing?  Pffft!  Lights?  Ha!  I can now see every twinkling fairy light on every chandelier in every tree in my garden.  Did you know that doves have a bluish cast?  So many shades of blue.  Huh.  Water in my fountain looks like diamonds.  It’s just absurd.  I would tell you of my regret at  not knowing how colorful the world really is – but I couldn’t have known it any more than someone could’ve told me what Red looks like.  I’m spending a whole lot of time just… looking.

I did assign a couple of perfumes to birds.  Flickers?  Une Fleur de Cassie.  It’s a perfect match.  Cardinals?  Amouage Beloved (they have a slight pale magenta cast under their bright red).  I am having SO MUCH FUN!

In the midst of the glamour of the garden, I found the most entertaining vision shift occurred in my Brand New Bathroom.  I thought I knew the color of the floor (it’s a marble print vinyl because I am NOT slipping on real marble again, thankyouverymuch).  I’ve spent eons! looking at the floor with Bad Eye/Good Eye.

I might as well be looking at it with two different eyes! 😉 (can you tell I’m having WAY too much fun with this?).  It’s a crisp black/grey on a soft-but-bright white!  I’d been seeing a much more muted grey near-smear of marble effect on a pale yellow-white.  Reality?  Who cares!

But! As with anything – with great power comes great responsibility.  I now have to CLEAN a whole lot more – and… omg!  I really am going to have to regrout that shower !

But that can wait for another day – right now I’m just having a blast – SEEING!

Have any of you had this surgery?  How did it go (perfectly, I hope)?  What vision shifts did you experience?