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Hiya GB,

Big news in the eye surgery department.

For those who do not know, I am in the processing of having cataracts removed from my eyeballs.

There is something quite different about my eyeballs. Let me expand.

I have one eye, right.....with absolutely perfect vision. I have one eye, left, with vision somewhere around 40/400.....far removed from 20/20 vision you must understand.

I don’t know why or how this happened but from the time I was about four years old, to present time, some 60+ years later.....I have had to deal with these weird eyeballs and ALWAYS had to wear glasses.

When your eyes are that different in distance viewing, you have no depth perception!

I HAVE SPENT MY LIFE VOID OF DEPTH PERCEPTION!!! I swing at the baseball five minutes before it passes by the plate, for example. I cannot tell how far away I am from things.

But I do have that eye with perfect vision and I never played much baseball anyway.

Through the years I have worn glasses with one lens so thick that I would have to buy special frames or, at times, the thick lens would fall out of the glasses. For about three years I wore just ONE contact lens.

Best as I point out, I have dealt with glasses my whole life as I could see out of one eye but I did much better with both eyes, one with that thick lens. I was never one of those people who pulled my glasses out to read the menu then put them away. I took them out most times at bedtime but wore glasses all the time I was awake.

So they fix that awful left eye of mine and guess what?

I CAN SEE WITH IT!!!!!

In fact, as of now I only see blurry with my right eye, which also has a cataract to be removed at the end of this month.

The eye surgeon gave me a pair of reading glasses but guess what?

I DON’T NEED THEM!!

There are times or two when I am reading something a bit small and use the reading glasses to read the smaller print but most times I DON’T NEED GLASSES AT ALL!!!

Imagine spending seventy years or so with one eye that sees very little and all of a sudden, one day, it is the only eyeball you see with it!

When the right eye is done I doubt very much I will need even reading glasses.

I am amazed, folks.

It will take a while for me to get over a panic grope for my glasses but I am one happy guy.

God bless American medicine.

OMG, I have a sister who has been blind in one eye since age 4 or 5 (accident), and she also has really poor depth perception, so never could learn to drive, for one thing.(I hope I don't slip and tell her about your "miracle.") So I've tried, over the years, to imagine the situation. She is about your age, and back then, the Docs told her she would probably go blind in the other because of the inordinate strain. She lived with that worry until adulthood.

I'm sure every day is like being a kid again for you. What are you going to do when your 20/20 eye gets torqued, too? You will have to wear shades to remain calm!

Anyway, I am really happy for you. Great news, for sure!