....and eye for an eye.

As Randy Jackson would say,

 "Hey dog, dog....yo, yo, yo not the only one with cataract in them eye!"

"I got one on my left eye too!"

Randy does not have a cataract in his eye, I do. This dog now has cataract in his left eye.

When I was about 12, Tua-kor (still remember my grand-aunt of Toh Aka Lane?), had cataract in her eyes and she got them removed at the hospital. From what I can recall, it was terrible and painful; and post-surgery can even change your personality.....from fussy to fussier and fussiest!

"Ah Seng, switch off all the lights! Let the blinds down. So hot and bright today" ....when the sky is cloudy and rain has started to fall.

I knew I had a cataract on my left eye for 2 years already, but just 2 weeks back it started to show its colours - well, its non-colour to be exact.

I haven't played on my guitar for 3 months. ....and when I took it out of that lovely Gibson hard case, I thought I was seeing things. Grey guitar when it should be brown?... my eyes were playing tricks on me.

Two weeks ago, I wanted to drive good ol' wifey to Penang and visit Dan, Becky & Scarlett. I winked at wifey by closing my right eye. Lo and behold, it was just like blurry....

....and greyish all over for a moment, and then like an empty silver screen after a movie has ended in a cinema! The back-seat driver had to take over from me at the wheels, ha!

Wow, it was a good experience as a back-seat driver. I kept telling wifey, "Turn left" ..."Now go straight, 100 meters" "....take a u-turn, that'll be easier," ...."don't go, lights about to turn red" - like a Garmin GPS. Wifey was getting back a few doses of her own medicine, hahaha!

I'll be checking out the opthalmologist afterwards. To get it over and done with. By whatever process available as long as my left eye isn't gouged out, hahaha!

At least today with new medical technologies my Tua-kor missed, cataract surgery is generally performed with minimal sedation and generally takes less than 30 minutes. I may just need to return for visits within the first few days and again within the first few weeks after surgery.

A little research tells me more about cataracts that I want to share with you.....

• Early symptoms of cataracts include blurred vision, glare, and difficulty reading.

• Cataracts will affect most people and become more prominent as we age.

• Cataracts can be diagnosed when the doctor examines the eyes with specialized viewing instruments.

• The decision to proceed with surgery is primarily based on the amount of difficulty you have performing your routine daily activities.

• Treatment for cataracts is surgical removal of the cataract with implantation of an artificial lens.

• There are a variety of intraocular lens types that can restore vision in different ways.

Eye-catching footnote: Cataract surgery is a safe and effective way to restore vision with serious complications occurring in only 1 in 1,000 cases------>

.....like this guy operated at the wrong place (at the forehead instead of the eye) and had to fight the doctor ending up with 2 front teeth lost! kekekeke.....    

Well, the footnote says it all, so it's not 100% safe & effective. But I still hope for the best, to work out an operation date with the doctor.....and most certainly, I hope to overcome that trauma and not to become senile after that.

Most likely, I'll become a pirate with an eye-patch for a week, and stay at home having only candle-light dinners with wifey at home.

...and instead of becoming fussier & fussiest like Tua-kor, I hope I become funnier & funniest as I blog, post-cataract surgery.

...and become the new cool dog....hear that Randy? Wish me luck!

See ya with a new left eye!



Dear Anonymous Po Po,


In the meantime, I'm gonna let my PC wear shades!....See?...I've some bright ideas - I cut out a piece of tinted green plastic folder to fit into my laptop screen. I'm never short of ideas, kekeke.....

Countermeasure works very well! ....no more glare!

I'm satisfied!