Author: hautbois
Date: 2010-07-17 00:14
Mark -- I recently had surgery. As my playing days are in the past, I cannot speak to your query about resuming playing, other than that I was generally instructed to refrain from exertion for awhile (no lifting or bending over, for example) until the opening through which the new lens is inserted is healed.
My investigation of lenses led me to choose a single distance lens -- my choice was for an intermediate distance -- the distance of a cumputer screen, more or less. It seemed to me that while a multi-focus lens is a nifty idea, those multi-distance lenses have yet to be perfected, and also that there is often a halo in the vision with them. I also chose a lens which blocks UV. The surgery itself was totally uneventful. Complete clarity of vision was attained in a day or so, and there were no surgical complications. I will need a laser treatment to puncture a fold in the back of the sac which holds the lens. It is not an uncommon problem, and the solution is very simple, I am told, not even requiring that I find another driver to take me to and from the surgical center.
One of the things which had annoyed me so much during the last years of my playing was the difficulty I had distinguishing a sharp from a natural sign on my music, because, as you probably know, with cataracts, vision cannot be fully corrected. With my cataract now removed it is incredible to me that I ever navigated my way through music at all. Also, driving home from rehearsal late at night with all the additional glare which a cataract creates was an unnecessary difficulty and hazard.
Best of luck.
Elizabeth
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