I have an appointment in late March to look at my cataract surgery. I am very optimistic that all of this will go just like my colonscopy procedure - simple. Three phone calls or whatever is needed and all done. I guess it might be a few more than three because it is actually two surgeries. But the ophthalmologist does both routine and surgery so that is a great step forward because I let go of my ophthalmologist when I was in my early 50s because he was going into strictly surgery and downsizing. I had been looked after by an ophthalmologist since I was three months old up until that time (just two actually one in my hometown Dr Dyson and one here Dr Sullivan). I have worn glasses since I was a year old. I thought, no problem, I will just go to an optometrist. My eyes didn't change from one visit to the next just my lenses were scratched so I needed new glasses about every two years. At the same time I switched to plastic lenses actually mostly because it was going to take ages to get the glass ones. I think I may have been the last person on the planet who went to plastic from glass lenses in the 1990s. My mother actually said I should stay with an ophthalmologist because I would need cataract surgery one day but I actually believed in my 50s that I would be lucky to survive to 70 so really didn't need to worry about that. Well here I am at 78 plus and needing cataract surgery. Anyway all set up for an appointment in late March so that is a good feeling as my family doctor was not able to get another opthalmologist to take me on. So on a whim I called to see if the ophthalmologist that I was referred to for the surgery was also a regular ophthalmologist as well as a surgeon and he is. This way I could hopefully see him every two years for a checkup on my eyes as I do use them a great deal especially for transcription of the ancient documents that I do. I have strabismus in both eyes and astigmatism in both eyes; there is something weird about my corneas as well which I can not remember and my one eye doesn't actually do anything although there is some sight but according to Motor Vehicle I am legally blind in that eye. I expect to lose my licence when I am 80; time will tell. My extra eye care is my only medical need that my family doctor isn't trained in. Otherwise a family doctor for all my care is great for me; I really do not want to spend a lot of time going to specialists and they are in high demand these days so that is good. Edward went to so many and they all helped him he just had a lot of issues unfortunately. I do think they gave him another ten years of life that he got to spend with his grandsons - I will always remember that night in emergency when I really thought we might lose him back in 2011 before his first grandson was born. A pacemaker gave him back his ability to manage once again. At that time I took over things like the heavy gardening so that he could still enjoy his garden without working so hard and pretty much stopped doing most things I was doing to help him. But other issues arose over the years which he bravely struggled against but life moved on without him sadly especially for his daughters and grandsons who had him really such a short time in their lives. He had so much to give to them for sure. For my daughters he was their comfortable rock I would say; they were very close to him.
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