I can SEE!

[Freightman]

As some of you know I had lost the clear sight in my right eye and have had to learn to shoot left handed. I had been to an optometrist but all he did was a new pair of glasses and no improvement, said I do not know what is wrong. Well I finally had enough about two years and called the surgeon who took my cataracts out years ago and he said come in Aug. 2 at three and we will fix it. Well the waiting and paper work took a whole lot longer than the fixing. Deadening drops sit down looked at a light and blinked when he said (three times) and he zapped it to clear. He said about 50% of people will develop a milky substance behind the new lens and a lazier fixes it fast.
Now back to "RIGHT" handed shooting. HOORAY!

[ph4570]

Most excellent! Happy to hear it.

[theperfessor]

Great for you. Enjoy and shoot. Just leave a few primers for the rest of us. LOL

[462]

Great news.

[zuke]

Do you see the light!!!

[Echo]

Way to go! Even though much of medicine is still art, there is progress being mad CONSTANTLY, and we need to be aware of the latest.

[Moonie]

I have always been blessed with perfect vision while the rest of my family hasn't. My father has always been "legally blind" because his sight has always been very bad. His vision has gotten to the point that he has no depth perception at all, even corrected and the best they can do for him is 20/300 in one eye. Probably one of my biggest fears is losing my sight. God bless the doctor that helped you so easily.

[SciFiJim]

I am glad too hear of your improved vision. The problem you had was something I didn't know could happen, or be corrected. Enjoy!

[Dframe]

Great news. Shooting right handed is over rated.
I've shot lefty all my life.

[uncle joe]

good for you, I am in the opposite position, I have developed a blind spot in my left eye and I shoot left handed. I will have to learn to shoot right handed this year. The doc said yesterday that he thought it was nerve damage from high pressure or from my being on a vent or blood transfusions while I was in the icu the last few months. He also said if it was nerve damage there was nothing he could do about it. But I can still see and the ar with the red dot works pretty good right handed with both eyes open.
UJ

[OutHuntn84]

Thats awesome! Thank God for good doctors

[cbrick]

Freightman, your mistake was going to an Optometrist. Over a 15 year period and three different Optometrists and steadily decreasing eyesight the best advice I got from any of the three was to get new glasses 2 or 3 times a year. By this time I was legally blind.

This was partly my fault, instead of finding what the real problem was I blamed diabetes for my decreasing eyesight.

Finally took my head out of my hieny and went to an ophthalmologist. The problem wasn't diabetes, it was cataracts. The Optometrists could easily see the cataracts but instead of saying anything they simply sold me stronger and stronger glasses more and more often and said nothing.

An Optometrist earns his living selling glasses, ophthalmologists earn their living fixing problems and thus helping you. If anyone needs eye care I highly recommend seeing a real eye doctor and not a quack eye glass salesman. After I did it's a whole new world for me.

Rick

[leadman]

Glad the doc was able to fix you up.

[Wayne Smith]

I'll second and third what cbrick said. The first time I saw my opthomologist after seeing optomotrists since I was 9 he diagnosed low pressure, wide angle glaucoma. I have only a small amount of loss, he caught it early, thank God. He diagnosed it on the basis of the shape of the optic nerve leaving the back of the eyeball. I was in my 40's when this happened, literally through divine intervention.

[mold maker]

I had the wax paper lens removed from my right eye this morning. Already I can tell a difference, and its only been 4 hours.
If all goes well the Left will be done in a few weeks.
Look out world, there's lots of doin gonna git done.

[Bloodman14]

For those of you with bad eyesight with otherwise healthy eyes, check into LASIK surgery. I went from 475/20 in my right eye and 525/20 in my left eye, to 20/15 in BOTH eyes with "0" astigmatism! Best money I ever spent.

[qajaq59]

Freightman, I had the same problem. However, it didn't take my doctors as long to figure it out. I have 20/40 now and my right eye isn't as good as my left. But I'm 71, and while I can't have everything, it certainly is far better then before the LASIK.

[Freightman]

Freightman, I had the same problem. However, it didn't take my doctors as long to figure it out. I have 20/40 now and my right eye isn't as good as my left. But I'm 71, and while I can't have everything, it certainly is far better then before the LASIK.

We are the same age! I was 71 June 6

[DIRT Farmer]

Freightman, Thanks for posting. Education is the answer and by your post a lot of people have learned there are options. I have a lot of training in the care of a patient for the first hour in trauma and cardiac. When my father suddenly lost vision in one eye I had no clue but got him in to the eye Dr who zaped the offending tissue behind the lens, back to good as new.

[qajaq59]

Quoted from Freightman

We are the same age! I was 71 June 6

April 25 for me. And that's why we both needed the surgeries. LOL