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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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- Subject: Re: glasses and eyes
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 00:31:20 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:
-
- > well, yes....i'm about 20/400 in each eye....well was before the
- >retina crap started up....and the left one is now about 20/400 WITH the
- >glasses on....and it is supposed to improve a bit in next few months
- >before they give me new glasses lens on that side....and there has always
- >been astigmatism on both sides....but now the left one shows all things
- >tipped down and to the right about 15 degrees, so besides being fuzzy
- >nothin liines up.
-
- In a word, YIPE! And I thought I was bad! That sounds like when I try to
- shoot an air rifle [squirrel scaring]. THe guns are calibrated to right-eyed
- people, and I'm a southpaw all the way down.[brains to toes]
-
- > at the moment the scary part is the different KIND of fuzziness....the
- >kind i've always had is just out of focus, like when camera isn't focussed,
- >just sorta fuzzy/blurry....but the left one now is wiggly....like looking
- >thru glass blocks, or one of those shower doors....and lines of print
- >that i can sorta read if i hold the book about four inches from my face
- >are all wiggly, with lines of text that look like caterpillars, with
- >each character individually distorted. oh, well.....
-
- EEK! ICK! BLETCH! BLARG! in a major way!
- >
- >anyway, the dilation is going away, though it is still real sensitive to light.
- >
- That, for me, never does.:-( The brighter it is outside, the blinder I am.
-
- >could be worse....any of it beats that 50% curtain across the eyeball..and
- >i am thanbkful for what has been done so far....
- >
- So am I - it's hard to read a screen and post crazy comments when you can't
- read the darned thing!
-
- >
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