Stupid Eye Tricks Two: The Sequel

[February]

Okay everybody...here we go again.

Right eye surgery is scheduled for Thursday AM if all goes according to plan...no IOL is to be placed this time after the disaster last time- so I will be aphakic in both eyes after the bad lens on the right is removed.

it'll be scary to wake up to the world being so completely out of focus but at least when I heal then I should finally be able to really start seeing again. It has been years since I've had vision in both eyes, and so the prospect is truly amazing even though I'll be unable to see anything much more than light and motion without the big honkin' glasses or the prosthetic contacts and glasses together.

I'm excited, but I'm nervous. I just want it over with.

So if I'm not around for a bit after Wednesday night that's why.

Think good thoughts for me?

One cool thing- they say that Monet was aphakic (as that was the only way to do cataract surgery back then) and that the change in color perception due to no ultraviolet filters (which I can already tell you is incredible with the one eye that has no lens anymore) is part of why he painted the way he did. Now I'm no Monet but I will tell you that lightning is AMAZING- and purple- when you have aphakia. Leave it to me to set medical science back a hundred years.

but hey, if it was good enough for Claude, it's good enough for me. I LOVE colors and have missed them so much as my vision has first dimmed, then yellowed, then gone almost completely in both eyes.

I'm hoping this is the beginning of better times ahead...after just what I could see down in WDW last month, I want so badly just to go back and see it all clearly for the first time in more years than I want to remember.

hugs
bru

[felinefan]

I once read of an astronomer who had both his lenses removed due to cataract surgery, and he found that he could see the stars better afterward. No light scattering, the stars looked clearer and sharper than they had before. It enhanced his work.

[hobie16]

Good luck! Keep us up to date.

[February]

I once read of an astronomer who had both his lenses removed due to cataract surgery, and he found that he could see the stars better afterward. No light scattering, the stars looked clearer and sharper than they had before. It enhanced his work.

this is true- when I wore the aphakia glasses outside to try to see the Perseids, the stars seemed so much more intensely bright than before (this effect is not the same with contacts in as they filter uvs) and when i saw that streak of meteor out there it was the most vibrant, brilliant blue I've ever seen in my life. I can't wait to try painting (at which i'm a hack but i enjoy it) after both eyes are sighted again.

the world is truly in technicolor with my left eye and i cannot wait to get color back on the right too- any sight at all since all that's left in the right is so distorted now it actually casts distortions over the vision on the other side.

it's incredible too that without any glasses, if i look at a street light or headlight on a car, it looks like a perfectly frozen in the air exploding fireworks shell. you can't see to get anything done but if you're holding still the effect is quite stunning.

thanks hobie, will do! you guys are the best. I'm putting on my brave little soldier boots...what was that thing you had me say that time? hooooahhhhhhh!!!!

xoxo
bru

[DisneyMom]

Bru, Good luck and swift healing! :) Have March keep us updated, and we'll cheer you on thru recovery! Thinking the best thoughts for you, :hug:

[Notatourist]

luck and love

[Stripes]

I just read through the story of your first surgery. All good thoughts for this time around too!

[hobie16]

I can't wait to try painting (at which i'm a hack but i enjoy it) after both eyes are sighted again.

the world is truly in technicolor with my left eye and i cannot wait to get color back on the right too- any sight at all since all that's left in the right is so distorted now it actually casts distortions over the vision on the other side.

it's incredible too that without any glasses, if i look at a street light or headlight on a car, it looks like a perfectly frozen in the air exploding fireworks shell. you can't see to get anything done but if you're holding still the effect is quite stunning.

Just a thought but try painting what you're seeing. You may get some unique colors and effects and find people want to buy your work. If you've got lemons...

[February]

Just a thought but try painting what you're seeing. You may get some unique colors and effects and find people want to buy your work. If you've got lemons...

Oh yes, I totally have a list in my head of things as I see them that I want to paint, a street full of lights at night (car brake lights, street lamps, the moon even looks different ) but to paint the electric purple lightning would really be cool if i could capture it.

flowers (especially roses) are what i love to paint most (in a pseudo-impressionist, not real still-life sort of way, as i said i'm not really good at it) blending colors is an art form in and of itself to me i could spend all day doing it one of the first things i want to paint is that sunset i saw on the airplane at 39000 feet on the way to FL last month for the vigil.

If anything turns out interesting I'll scan it and share. Thanks for the encouragement hobie! you so rock.

thanks too Stripes, Disneymom and sweet Notatourist. You guys are so wonderful.

Official time to report to the eye center building at the U is 9:45 am thursday...can't come soon enough for me!

xoxo
bru

PS bless your heart, Stripes, for reading through the unending saga that was my left eye surgeries. Thank you for caring that much to slog through it!

[GaTechGal]

Now for the muical portion of tonight's show just for Bru:

Your favorite Sunday night theme song:

The world is a carousel of color,
History, comedy, fantasy,
There?s drama and mirth,
There?s old mother earth
With all of her secrets to see.

The miracle of imagination,
The marvels of earth, sea and sky,
These wonders untold
Are ours to behold
In the funny world,
The sunny world,
The wonderful world of color.

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And our favorite from Dr. Ludwig VonDrake:

Red, yellow, green, red, blue blue blue
Red, purple, green, yellow, orange, red red

Blend them all and what do you get?
Ceries, chartous, and aqua
Mauve, beige, and ultra marine, and every colour in between
Ing za ri ka fo zi brun brun

Colour has it's harmony and just as I have said
Red, yellow, green, red, blue, pink, grey
And white, and plaid and blue, green, white, yellow and toodinz 'n' and and and
right and and strips with blue and a black and Plaid and a....a

oo and ...vut vut, vait a second, vut vut's going on wid all da colours?
Blue, red, green, green, white, white, black....
vut ever happened to just plain old lavender blue dilly dilly dilly dilly.......dilly
....silly

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Good luck with the surgery Bru.