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A Week & A Day

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today marks 8 days since I had my surgery on my eye. My vision seems roughly the same. I can tell there are changes, but nothing major.

When I look in the mirror, I cannot differentiate between the pupil and the iris in my eye. I can’t see the black dot. It’s just a dark circle. It was like that before. Looking at the full moon with my glasses on is pretty good but when I take my glasses off it looks misshapen and smaller, not a clear picture. Mid range, like across the street or across the room seems better without my glasses than with them. For reading I will still definitely need glasses. I worry about losing the ability to read, reading is my life.

I have another checkup tomorrow and we’ll be getting a new prescription for glasses in about another week or two.

Happy Tuesday, have a great day!

Book: 2034

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I finished this boook over the weekend. I couldn’t put it down.

The years is 2034, US Ships put out a fire on a fishing trawler in the South China Sea. The US boards and finds that it’s really a spy boat.

China wants it’s trawler back, then sinks all three US Ships when the US doesn’t comply. They are somehow able to jam and disable all the ships weapons and communications.

A US Pilot, testing some stealth technology, goes into Iranian airspace The Iranians are able to remote control his plane and land him in Iran.

The US government has a huge black out of their computer networking systems. All internal and external communications are lost.

US sends two carrier groups to the South China Sea because of the lost ahips. Both carriers and all the support ships are sunk. The Chinese are able to jam all their onboard systems and the systems on the aircraft.

The USN loses a quarter of it’s fleet that day

The US pulls it’s ships from the North Sea to attend the South China Sea incidents. The Russians, unsupervised, blow up all the USA’s undersea fiber optic cables. They take over some NATO territory.

Iran takes over territory in and near the Straight Of Hormuz

Using World war II technology, the US nukes a Chinese city. In escalation, China bombs to US cities. The US makes preparations to nuke 3 Chinese cities.

that’s all I’m going to tell you, you have to read the book!

today is my first day of work since my eye surgery. We’ll see how the computer looks, my prescription in my glasses is not correct anymore. It will be interesting times.

have a great week!

Success, So It Seems

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The operation was a success. I’m alive and I can still see.

When I got home, my vision was pure blur. This morning, it seems about the same as before. Hopefully it will continue to improve throughout the day.

In the picture above, it looks like I’m wearing a contact lens, but the line is where the incision was made I’m guessing.

The worst thing this morning is that it feels like my eyelashes are messed up. I want to wash my face but can’t get water (or soap) in my eye.

The operation was a unique experience. I still have glaucoma and epiretinal membrane, so I didn’t expect any miraculous improvement.

Have a nice day

Eye Surgery Today

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My ride gets here in less than an hour. I hope I’m home by noon

it was a nice weekend. Did beach yoga and went diving. No diving for two months. No exercise for not as long.

Happy Monday!

Final.Friday

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It’s the final Friday before my surgery, my final weekend diving for at least two months. My final exercising for I don’t know how long. My final work day for more than a week..

I feel like my life is ending Monday. I’ve never took a week sick time in my life.

How many people die from cateract surgery? How many times does the procedure leave the person blind?

I’ll be glad when it’s behind me!

Have a good weekend !

The Same But Different

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SInce I switched to GoDaddy, WordPress has been very different on my Android phone with Chrome than it has on my Android tablet with Chrome.

On my phone, I type a post and press “Publish” and it takes me to a menu list of options frommwhich there seems to be no escape. To go back warns me that I’ll lose everything, and there’s no way forward.

I can’t comment on your blogs, because it tells me I must sigh in to Google. Which I am and have done again to no avail.

It actually can’t be GoDaddy, because it’s only my phone, not both devices. I installed Firefox and the symptoms were the same.

Weird. … Workin’ on it!

Have a great day!

Two Months

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After my eye surgery, I’m told I can’t scuba dive for 2 months. That includes wearing a dive mask and snorkeling and free diving. I’m thinking that it will be less than 2 months before I get the second eye done, and then the two months will start over again so I’m wondering how long it is before I can go diving after this weekend. Doom and gloom!

Tanker Aground

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A tanker ran Aground on Cayman Brac. No fuel spill, but reef damage. Read the article HERE. In the old days, there were more shipwrecks. In 1794, ten ships that were part of a convoy on its way from Jamaica to England wrecked on the reef at the east end of Grand Cayman. Local residents braved the stormy waters and successfully rescued the ships’ crews and passengers.

The King of England granted The Cayman Islands tax immunity in thanks. That’s why we’re tax free today!

Have a great day!

Baba’s Sea Hare

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Identify the photos below: One is a tang, two are called Baba’s Sea Hare (zoom in on them), two are the same Long Fin Damselfish (juvenile), and a baby squirrelfish.

It was a busy weekend cleaning up after hurricane Beryl. I spent Saturday cleaning the front yard, lots of chainsaw action and hauling away branches. Sunday morning was diving, afternoon was cleanup the back yard. Which involved mostly picking up little branches and sticks and poinciana seeds.

Now its back to work Monday. One week from today, I have cateract surgery. (Gulp!)