The difference perhaps is no longer am I seeing a yellowish world with the second eye being completed. Everything is white again. Shockingly white at first but gradually I am getting used to the brightness and the gift of depth of vision is most fascinating. Choosing to do the weak eye first was the surgeon's schedule and I just went along for the ride as I had no real opinion other than I did want the weaker eye to have the opportunity to work on its own for a while. I was tempted to go to one month when I couldn't have them done both at the same time but this has worked out well too. The number of eye drops is enormous in a day still but will start to decrease this week and by a week Monday will be considerably diminished. The eye drops done every six hours does appear to be part of the cure as they keep the eye moist for good periods of time and the rest you just ignore the eye feeling strange. I was never one to put anything in my eye and have always blinked from a young age rather than rubbing my eyes perhaps because the eye glasses were in the way since I was one year of age and I was quite terrified of breaking or losing them so didn't touch them from the time they went on my face until they came off at the end of the day. Reading the subtitles on the television has been quite fascinating. I look forward to the eye charts in the clinic when I finally get my eyes tested for new glasses. I will still need glasses to do fine work or close work. I am not sure if I will need them for distance but will cross that bridge when I come to it where it matters; namely the renewal of my driver's license next year since my license is restricted to wearing corrective lenses and in particular it was noted on my "pass" page that I did not have depth of vision. So would they retest me completely? No ideas on that; it is a wait and see.
Continuing to downsize; the second large plastic bin for recycling yard waste is out at the curb today for pickup. The other bin which is large and wooden that my husband built will go one of these days probably although will wait and see on that. The lettuces and spinach are growing like mad in this hot humid weather. Already picking from the romaine bedding plants that we put in and the spinach looks ready to pick as well. Green onions are ready (red, yellow and white) and being picked. The sunflowers are already about 30 cm high and they all came up so there are dozens of them. They will be lovely to look at in the Fall.
The problems in Gaza could be over today if Hamas packed up and left. They have served absolutely no useful purpose in Gaza; they have brought nothing but death and destruction to the Palestinians. But then, of course, that was their aim from the beginning to use the Palestinians as sympathy generators in order to kill Jewish people. There apparently aren't farms growing food; no industry and 500 trucks a day used to go in from the United Nations. What is needed is a financial planner (Jewish people are particularly good financial planners) to get Gaza on their feet and economically sound so that their children have a country that is worthy of them. The European Union mentioned that they could bring Palestinian children in to help take care of them during the rebuilding; they know what war is like even if it happened 80 years ago. Instead of hate the Palestinians could be sowing crops; instead of attacking their neighbour in the back (and cheering Hamas on is just like being the aggressor as well - guilty on all counts) they could have efficient industries operating and the Palestinian people would have a decent lifestyle. Children would have a future to grow up to that was worthy of them. The 500 trucks from the UN are needed desperately elsewhere and the people much worthier as they are truly oppressed and genocide being committed against them. It is sad to see the deaths in Gaza but never in the history of the world has a country fared well that attacks other countries and barbarically murders their citizens until they changed their ways and lived the life that God meant them to live. 40,000 Germans died in one night of bombing just Hamburg during the Second World War.
On to the day. Breakfast is done. All the garbage out to the curb for pickup. A full green bin today. I generally put it out every couple of weeks as I just freeze the recycling until there is enough to have a full bin. Not everyone would be able to do that but my freezer tends to be half empty or less most of the time. Thus far I have not thrown out any actual food that I intended to consume but I do use the lined bags or milk cartons to throw out the food waste!
Latin continues to be my eye exercise for the day and I am still not taking new lessons but cementing the learned material well into my brain. An excellent opportunity to do so.
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