Hi to All, Just figured out how to make this bigger so it's easier to see what I type!! Small victories... I am in between my first cataract surgery and my second which will occur Monday. Yay! My eyes have been doing battle for the past month and none of us is happy. My operated eye can see nicely at a distance but doesn't read so well and is the worst RP eye so my field of vision is really messed up. I have islands of black and patches of sight. I can see far away fairly well but anything at arm's length or closer is bad. Then my unoperated eye is still a foggy cataract soup BUT it has a much better field of vision. Now getting all that to work together has not been fun. Friends I meet expect me to be so thrilled by my improved vision and they just do not understand when I say, "No, not really..." It makes me sound so ungrateful--they just don't understand RP and why this disease is such a pain in the rear. Does anyone know of a good website where they show how RP looks to us--I don't want the classic pinhole picture because that's not what I see. I don't see that encroaching peripheral blackness--my blind spots are peripheral to be sure but they are also random throughout my central vision. I sure wish I could show my friends a picture of what I can see and not see so they would understand. If you know of such a picture please let me know--it would be ever so helpful. Thanks to all for their posts and support--this is one place where I can vent and people understand. |
