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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!!!

If you ever do need cataract surgery be sure you get a good anesthesiologist! The first one did his job perfectly, and the operation on my worst eye that was supposed to be the most difficult went so well that I was mentally ready to do the second surgery the very same day, though of course they don't let you.