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Rob, thanks so much for sharing your story. My heart aches when hearing about your vision deteriation and the travels and travails of getting to Acapulco. I truly can identify with your vision issues.

My poor uneducated, but very loving mom did not know to keep me indoors when I got German measles at 3 years of age. Not until my 3rd grade teacher sent a sealed letter home to my parents (also terrifying) that he thought I might need an eye exam was I able to first truly see clearly through one of those big gadgets eye doctors use. Wow, Wow, Wow. Glasses were a blessing.

Forward 40 years later. I had struggled with glasses and hard and soft contact lenses the whole time. BUT. . .suddenly, I was eligible for laser surgery!! It was the best money I ever spent. After a few weeks, like you, I woke up every morning, amazed that I could see the individual leaves on a tree outside my bedroom window. That year, 1997, I threw away all my eye aids, except sunglasses. One eye was my reading eye, the other for distance.

Now, 23 years later, and close to the same age as you, I am sure I will soon be facing the same cataract surgery that you just had.

Isn't modern medicine through the decades quite amazing?!!? Congratulations on your wonderful new eye sight!!!