Festejando los PapaZIHtos

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No Covid-19 report from state officials today.

I hope all the dads out there enjoyed their day. I was spoiled rotten from the moment I opened my eyes this morning, and I put a good dent in all the beer I was given by my loving daughter. She knew just want Papá Roberto wanted.

I went to the Centro Visual Ixtapa yesterday for a capsulotomy, the removal of scar tissue over a lens implanted during cataract surgery, and today for the first time in years I have excellent vision in both eyes. The end of 4 years of trips to Acapulco and Ixtapa, surgeries and treatments. Finally! Never take your vision for granted!

Today easily reached 36°C, and the next couple of days are expected to be at least as hot if not hotter without any rain. But the following week it looks like plenty of rain is coming our way so get ready.

For a peaceful and stress-free vacation getaway I can recommend Casa Delfín Sonriente. A spacious and verdant 6-bedroom private beachfront villa with a pool on Playa Troncones that can be rented in its entirety or as individual suites and bungalows by the day or by the week. There's an outdoor BBQ area and areas for various outdoor activities. Any closer to paradise would be hard to get.
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¡Cuidemos nuestro patrimonio!
#NoQueremosMuelleParaCruceros
#NoQueremosBlueFlagEnLasPlayas
#PreservemosPlayaManzanillo

El fin de otro hermoso día en el paraíso.

Great to hear about your eyes, we'll likely have to follow your lead in the not too distant future.

We are hoping for rain, maybe tonight???

Great to hear about your eyes, we'll likely have to follow your lead in the not too distant future.

We are hoping for rain, maybe tonight???

Hey, we got a nice sprinkle last night! How about that? Didn't rain long, but it brought the temps down for sleeping more comfortably.

The damn pandemia made what I had to go through a bit of a calvario. Making the entire ordeal something much more difficult and costly than it should've been, but I got the type of surgery and lenses implanted that I wanted, a procedure that at the time wasn't offered locally, and though I still use glasses to read because they make it a bit easier, I can read and work without them. The hard part at the moment is training my brain to give equal importance to both eyes again because for years I had to sort of ignore one and then the other due to the defects in my vision. But now I can read the fine print again that used to be out of my range of focus. I can see pixels and undiluted colors again! ¡Ajúaaaa!

Good to hear the surgery went well. Local anesthetic or did they put you out? I need cataracts removed, and the thought of eye surgery makes my toes curl.

Cataract surgery takes about twenty minutes. The split second when you have no lens in is quite psychedelic.

The las thing I need in my old age is a return to the sixties...

Good to hear the surgery went well. Local anesthetic or did they put you out? I need cataracts removed, and the thought of eye surgery makes my toes curl.

Saturday was just a brief encounter with a laser beam that only took about a minute. The problem was that the YAG laser isn't available in Zihuatanejo. One must go to Morelia or Acapulco. So I had to wait for a doctor from the States to come to town with his own equipment. He is part of a foundation based in Mexico City. For my two cataract surgeries I wrote a more detailed account of my experience that might interest you.

A Tale of Two Eyes - The Eyes Have It

Thanks for the detailed post. Now I'm more nervous than before...

I’d be OK being 60 again.

Thanks for the detailed post. Now I'm more nervous than before...

The first one was such a piece of cake that I was ready to do the other eye the same day. That’s the experience you’re more likely to have. You’ll be all numbed up and smiling like Stan Laurel.

Being 60 was a good age.