February 13, 2019
At the Adventures in Eye Surgery Café...
... you can stay up all night talking. Me, I need my rest. I had my right-eye cataract surgery this afternoon and need some rest. Everything seems to have gone fine. But I'll turn things over to you, dear readers.
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Very best wishes.
I hope you have excellent results.
So I'm in an airport and I'm seeing an image of Wolf Blitzer.
I used to respect old Wolf. Seemed an honest journalist.
These days, he has this 'whipped dog' look to him. Like he used to remember what it used to be like to have pride, principles, and a sense of independence.
These days, not so much. He looks a bit like Krugman except Krugman has gone long past his revelation that he loves Big Brother.
God Speed and maybe your Right eye will get strong enough to see what true Cruel Neutrality™ looks like.
Brakeman Bill was the afternoon kiddie show at KTNT in Tacoma. He had a sock puppet sidekick named Crazy Donkey.
AOC I barely recognized you!!
I grew up watching Brakeman Bill and J. P. Patches. Good ol' days.
I know its counternarrative:
Is Mueller taking orders from Russia?
https://www.americanthinker.com/archives.html
I eagerly anticipate your insightful, and sometimes cutting, analysis of the unsightly word salad offered by today's journalists, especially as enhanced by your two newly improved eyes. Oh, and the rats, don't forget the rats!
Best wishes for a speedy and successful recovery.
They give some great dope for that procedure.
The Rats are in the Media. They are notoriously poor word smiths.
I would love a picture of a rat as Paul Krugman
Which is your dominant eye. That’s the one that has to come out right.
Pretend there’s a question mark after the word “eye.”
I can't be see every blog entry, so I hate it when I miss the one talking about why Trump is just not comfortable talking about immigration's effect on jobs -- he participates in the illegal labor market so successfully.
Darn it.
Rest easy. That is a lot of stress doing two so soon.
Bright days ahead!
Rest up your eye, the rest can wait.
Am I permitted to say that modern American medicine is a miracle?
Had the same when I was 58. You'll love the resu!t. Rest and take care of yourself.
I can't be see every blog entry, so I hate it when I miss the one talking about why Trump is just not comfortable talking about immigration's effect on jobs -- he participates in the illegal labor market so successfully.
Darn it.
I know what you mean. I miss seeing him down at Home Depot loading up those workers in the back of his pick-up.
Keep hope alive !
We hope that you enjoy the "Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care...", Dear Hostess.
I would love a picture of a rat as Paul Krugman
Why? When there are so many pictures of Krugman as a rat.
As a committed reader, I hope both surgeries on your eyes turn out well. The one thing I fear besides losing my mind (Alzheimer's or something similar) is losing my sight.
“They give some great dope for that procedure.”
I had Valium, Versid, and Fentanyl.
I had Valium first, as a pill, and it just made me very relaxed, but I was already relaced.
The other 2 I got by IV, and I honestly didn’t notice the effect, because there was so much going on. There was no noticeable effect afterwards. I felt completely normal.
Maybe if I were anxious the drugs would seem to do something interesting, but as it was, I got nothing extra.
They only give one tenth what they give for a colonoscopy, but when I’ve done that, I simply forget the whole experience.
I’m not much of a drug person. It just doesn’t work on me!
Hahaha mod's (and hopefully Meade's) away talk about and post YouTube videos of cows farting! You'll get extra CFCs (cow far credits) for airfare for those summer getaways, maybe even WI, home of the fried cheese-curd!!!
Alas, I spoke too soon...no cow farts ya'll.
Incidentally, how much methane is WI generating? Offhand guess on my part is something approaching 10x23^4 gigafarts. Probably enough to power that CA train to nowhere. Ah yes, as always midwestern resources to fund AND fuel coastal vanity projects. Madness.
Also, they're starting to mock AOC online as the "greener beaner". Beans? Don't they also produce a lot of methane? We need to run with this...
Good news.
I suppose the 60 million or so Bison that lived in North America were fartless?
What do we have here:
https://mobile.twitter.com/kshahrooz/status/1095855321556414464
"I speak for the President of the United States. Now tell me, why have you come to our planet?"
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
We’re glad you’re on this side of your surgeries. Best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery!
That was a terrible film, because Keanu was like cigar store Indian in part. And the cgi was so over the top.
"Tired eyes, it's time, the end of a day-
Don't anticipate tomorrow, rest as you lay.
Tired eyes, close! to find sweet solace that you seek-
Tired eyes, rest now, that tomorrow you might speak." -Unknown
Monday = the media
Weekend = the truth
"Dear readers"...what is this, Miss Manners?
"I’m not much of a drug person. It just doesn’t work on me!"
It's not trippy, but I always come out feeling very happy. Scope sedative too.
Didn't you think it weird to have all that slicing and tugging going on with your eye, but be relaxed about it?
I had Valium, Versid, and Fentanyl.
I had Valium first, as a pill, and it just made me very relaxed, but I was already relaced.
The other 2 I got by IV, and I honestly didn’t notice the effect, because there was so much going on. There was no noticeable effect afterwards. I felt completely normal.
They only give one tenth what they give for a colonoscopy, but when I’ve done that, I simply forget the whole experience.
Not that I have any idea about your procedure, you tweaked my interest with the mention of "forget the whole experience" I told my nurses on return trips for colonoscopies that I did not remember anything, and the post op visit by the Dr. didn't exist in my memory either and my wife explained that she was there and I was very talkative. The Nurses explained they used Ketamine in the mix of drugs and it wiped out memories after the surgery until the drugs wore off. So I didn't know if Ketamine was involved with yours. And, if the MD's in the audience confirm Ketamine is used to wipe out memory, or is it just a happy coincendence.
Glad things went well for you.
time to exhale and let the eyes do their mending.
all the best to you
rest well
Red heads have a genetic predisposition to resist and get less benefit from various soporifics and pain killers. They aren't sure why.
Other people have very fast metabolisms. I wonder if that is how you've kept so slim over the decades.
May you have joy of both short-term results and long-term benefits.
I had anesthesia once (1).
I woke in the middle of it, heard the doctor talking about the initial cut and then went out again...luckily.
Don't know if I imagined it, or they gave me a little additional squirt.
Totally unrelated to eyes:
Does it bug anyone else the way web stories about twitter are put together. It seems like usually the text of the story will quote the tweets it is about, while actual images of the tweets are interlarded with the text. I'm like: Do I need to read this image which is breaking up the flow of what I was following, or won't the text tell me anyway?
Boredfirstworldproblems, I know..
Hope you will do as well as with the first and recovery quickly! God bless!
At my colonoscopy I was aware of--and remembered--the whole unpleasant procedure. Terrible cramping and dry heaves. I'm in no hurry to have another one. I was with my husband during one of his and he seemed to sleep through the whole thing.
Narciso recalls: That was a terrible film, because Keanu was like cigar store Indian in part. And the cgi was so over the top.
Keanu Reeves spoils every film he's in. Who told him he could act?
Do you mean we're not unconscious during colonoscopies? Crap!
I didn't have anything before my first in 1991, and it hurt so badly, the doc knocked me out, or at least I thought.
Many people fall asleep or don't remember much after getting the sedating medication in the preoperative room. I've had surgery a couple of times and have never had that effect, staying fully awake and conscious up until the use of a face mask in the OR for inhalational anesthetic.
Althouse. I don't remember much post OP drugs or instructions after either of my surgeries. Did you have laser or mechanical surgery? I'm surprised anyone would opt for the latter these days unless no one offered a laser option.
Keanu Reeves spoils every film he's in. Who told him he could act?
I actually liked the Bill & Ted movies. Of course I guess the characters were not exactly subtle.
Surprised we haven't seen a sequel about whatever problems their kids get up to.
I wish you all the best in general, but most especially for the outcome of this surgery. My cataract surgery is coming up, and you have no idea how upsetting it will be for me if your operation has "complications".......I had Demerol for one procedure. It's supposed to be the good stuff, but I found it only mildly entertaining. What was really bad was when it wore off. I suffered the most profound depression ever. Darkness visible. I'm not particularly upbeat at the best of times, but this was really harrowing and scary.......I had an epiphany. The reason drug addicts go to such elaborate lengths to secure their next fix is not for the high but to avoid the depression when the drug wears off,
@mockturtle:
Keanu Reeves spoils every film he's in. Who told him he could act?
That's a little harsh. Reeves does okay when he stays in his lane: San Dimas surfer dude or cyberpunk antihero. He did a decent job in Speed, which was a great action movie. But when you put him in period pieces like Le Chevalier Raphael Danceny in Dangerous Liaisons or Jonathan Harker in Dracula, in romantic melodramas like A Walk in the Clouds or Sweet November, or trying to pull off the most godawful southern accent in The Devil's Advocate, Reeves is truly embarrassing.
Keanu Reeves is not such a great actor, but he's been in a fair number of entertaining movies. I don't know what make a successful film, but I'm pretty sure good acting is not the sine qua non.
"A Walk in the Clouds" is a pretty good movie. I don't see where Reeves deserves any criticism for his performance.
I appreciate Keanu Reeves' one facial expression.
I anxiously await his reveal of his own "Blue Steel".
madAsHell said...
Brakeman Bill was the afternoon kiddie show at KTNT in Tacoma. He had a sock puppet sidekick named Crazy Donkey.
AOC I barely recognized you!!
Brakeman Bill. Captain Puget. JP Patches. Wunda Wunda.
Stan Boreson. The King!!
I think maybe it is wrong to bring AOC into this. These people were heroes to thousands of us youngsters growing up in the Seattle Tacoma area in the '50s and '60s. AOC will never have an impact on today's children that is remotely as positive as these wonderful "characters".
@CWJ:
"A Walk in the Clouds" is a pretty good movie. I don't see where Reeves deserves any criticism for his performance.
I was shocked when Roger Ebert gave it 4 stars. I thought it was a terrible movie, and I thought Reeves' acting was terrible. He was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for that performance but had the good fortune of being up against Pauly Shore in Jury Duty.
@William:
Keanu Reeves is not such a great actor, but he's been in a fair number of entertaining movies. I don't know what make a successful film, but I'm pretty sure good acting is not the sine qua non.
A good director knows how to make a good movie out of bad acting. See Kathryn Bigelow's Pojnt Break.
I think an actor who could express subtle shades of existential anguish would have ruined the Matrix movies........In certain movies good acting is a minus not a plus. Of all the Star Wars' princesses, Carrie Fisher was the least accomplished actress, but she's the one the audience has bonded with. It's not solely because of that bikini. She delivered the clunky lines with just the right amount of earnest sincerity. A more intelligent line reading would have subverted the fantasy. For comic book characters, you want comic book colors and comic book outlines. No fine shades. No wrinkles or sags.
@William:
Very good point. Dolph Lundgren is no actor but pretty much single-handedly carried Rocky IV as Ivan Drago.
Farmer observes: But when you put him in period pieces like Le Chevalier Raphael Danceny in Dangerous Liaisons or Jonathan Harker in Dracula, in romantic melodramas like A Walk in the Clouds or Sweet November, or trying to pull off the most godawful southern accent in The Devil's Advocate, Reeves is truly embarrassing.
And his unfortunate role in Much Ado About Nothing. The film 47 Ronin was actually pretty good except for Reeves, whose acting skill consisted of looking intense.
And Schwarzenegger in the first two Terminator films.
Maybe Jon hamm. should have been the Michael rennie and Reeves the interrogator or perhaps nuke it from orbit,
@mockturtle:
And his unfortunate role in Much Ado About Nothing. The film 47 Ronin was actually pretty good except for Reeves, whose acting skill consisted of looking intense.
I liked Much Ado About Nothing but largely on the strength of being a sucker for Kenneth Branagh. I don't even remember Reeves in that movie. I absolutely loathed 47 Ronin. For peak Reeves awfulness, you have to watch him attempt a French Canadian accent in the film Youngblood.
William Shatner is no great actor, but he is James T. Kirk
Good to know you have finished your surgeries. Best wishes. Looking forward to photos this coming Spring.
John wick wasnt too bad in part because they tried for the ethos of trevanian's shibumo, even though he isn't japanese.
@Unknown:
William Shatner is no great actor, but he is James T. Kirk
Never got into the original Star Trek. I was a Next Generation kid. My favorite Shatner role was in the classic Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet."
You're serious, well I guess its like I remember the six million dollar man since it was one of the first TV shows, but shatners over the top delivery, that's the real deal.
They are trying for some of that with anson mount in the new season of discovery, only saw one epusode.
Scott Meyer's Basic Instructions webcomic recently reran his take on Star Trek TNG which is about how I feel.
Meyer's take on the classic Star Trek pilot, The Menagerie is pretty funny as well.
Just re-watched The Matrix the other night. That movie is a sci-fi masterpiece.
@Unknown:
Scott Meyer's Basic Instructions webcomic recently reran his take on Star Trek TNG which is about how I feel.
And never mind that damn shield. 80% 70% 40%.
I think timing has a lot to do with it. I saw TNG first and for me it remained the quintessential Star Trek, even after going back and watching some of the original series. Similarly, The Last Crusade was the first Indiana Jones movie I saw and remains my favorite, despite the broad critical consensus that Raiders is the best film.
@Ty:
Just re-watched The Matrix the other night. That movie is a sci-fi masterpiece.
Agree. I think it tends to get lost now in the noise of the two sequels. The Wachowskis' previous film Bound is fantastic, too.
Ok last crusade looked good because temple of doom, then again it looks like a,masterpiece compared to crystal skull.
The thing about the matrix was this sense of mystery, what exactly is going on. Also the cgi was sufficiently basic enough that it looked plausible as opposed to reloaded overreliance and creeping sjw wokeness.
It was certainly better than the second one and it is hard to beat Connery & Ford both at the top of their games.
Ann, did you have topical anesthesia? how did it go? Best wishes!
Actually, Reeves is quite good in John Wick, though I haven't yet seen the sequel. Of course, the character in the movie is kind of emotionless and stiff, so it does play into his strengths.
"I liked Much Ado About Nothing but largely on the strength of being a sucker for Kenneth Branagh."
Then if you haven't seen it, check out the series Wallender on Netflix.
I never realized that the Wachowski's directed Bound. Great movie!
What Grace said 9:50. Blessings to you and Meade.
Farmer: "Very good point. Dolph Lundgren is no actor but pretty much single-handedly carried Rocky IV as Ivan Drago."
Quite so. Quite so.
Perhaps thats because Lundgren is also quite ibtelligent as seen by his multiple advanced Chemistry/Chemical Engineering degrees.
@narciso said...
I know its counter-narrative:
Is Mueller taking orders from Russia?
Mueller just caught a fourth Trump aide lying about contact with the Russians.
Trump’s takedown is like Obama’s Summer of Recovery- Boy is it coming but it’s always next Summer.
Speaking of next Summer, has RBG been seen in thw wild yet?
The two wwek recovery is always the next two weeks.
Mueller just caught a fourth Trump aide lying about contact with the Russians.
And one day Mueller is going to prove that Trump watched Boris and Natasha on the 'Rocky and Bullwinkle Show' and suggest the death penalty.
When having gulash is considered evidence of collusion and trumpeted at such in the NYT, WaPo and such unreflective hyperbolic mouthbreathers such as...um...you, it is not surprising that Trump's people don't mention that they ever met a Russian.
Come to me when you have more than a guy actually visited Russia.
BTW, do you feel Mueller should go after Obama next for his 'I'll have more flexibility after the election' gaffe? Seems like CLEAR collusion to me!
A scientific consensus is not an agreement on a single correct view of experts.
A scientific consensus is an agreement on the diversity of, distribution within and disagreement among experts.
A scientific consensus reflects understandings, uncertainties, ignorance and conflict.
-Roger Piekle
Yale girls are suing the fraternities because 'someone groped me at a party'.
These same girls are also suing to get entry into these same fraternities because 'social life on campus is so limited'.
It is like that Woody Allen bit 'The food is terrible' 'Yeah, and the portions are so small'.
'The Onion' levels of stupidity.
How about something simple: if you don't want to run the risk of being drunkenly groped or sexually approached by a man, don't go to frat parties. Make your OWN parties.
But that would involve women working and actually paying for something and approaching MEN to invite them to parties and we know how women feel about THAT.
the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.
-Michael Crichton
narciso said...
John wick wasnt too bad in part because they tried for the ethos of trevanian's shibumo, even though he isn't japanese.
2/13/19, 11:29 PM
Dug Trevanian's Shibumi as well as some of his other stuff like The Eiger Sanction. He turned later but what can you do. Recall that Nicholai Hel was not ethnically Japanese but, IIRC, Russian and German.
And Emerita, a swift and complete recovery to you! Versed is the best, if I were going to abuse a drug that would be it. As FIDO said, redheads are more sensitive to pain and less affected by anaesthesia.
On the bright side, James Joyce said you buck like goats. <--can confirm.
gadfly said...
Mueller just caught a fourth Trump aide lying about contact with the Russians.
Since when is having contact with the Russians illegal? Watch this short video of Obama meeting with a Russian --
LINK TEXT
Who should be going to jail?
CNBC on day four of the full court press assault to raise tax rates. Credit to GOv. Cuomo to have the pull to get that done.
Rick Scott on calmly trying to explain to the unhinged that tax rates do matter while suppressing his schadenboner.
““I am talking about the radical conservatives in the Democratic Party,” said Saikat Chakrabarti. “That’s who we need to counter. It’s the same across any number of issues—pay-as-you-go, free college, “Medicare for all.” These are all enormously popular in the party, but they don’t pass because of the radical conservatives who are holding the party hostage.”
Not long ago, this would have been an outlier position even among American liberals. Today, it’s the organizing principle of a newly empowered segment of the Democratic Party, one with a foothold in the new Congress.
Chakrabarti is chief of staff to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the closest thing to a new celebrity Congress has had in years—a 29-year-old former activist and bartender who, on the most recent Martin Luther King Day, sat on the same New York stage as the rapper Common, Black Panther director Ryan Coogler and MacArthur “genius award” winner Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Although it’s Ocasio-Cortez who gets all the headlines, she arguably wouldn’t be in Congress in the first place without the group Chakrabarti founded: Justice Democrats, a new, central player in the ongoing war for the soul of the Democratic Party. It was the Justice Democrats who recruited her in a quixotic campaign early on, providing a neophyte candidate with enough infrastructure to take down a party leader. And it is the Justice Democrats who see Ocasio-Cortez as just the opening act in an astonishingly ambitious plan to do nothing less than re-imagine liberal politics in America—and do it by whatever means necessary.”
Did anyone else watch Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) attack U.S Special Envoy to Venezuela, Mr. Elliott Abrams, in the House Foreign Affairs Committee? She made no effort to hide her hatred and condescension. Abrams is Jewish.
"It's not trippy, but I always come out feeling very happy. Scope sedative too. Didn't you think it weird to have all that slicing and tugging going on with your eye, but be relaxed about it?"
I went into the who experience happy about it and relaxed. I was never afraid or nervous. I really don't know why it didn't bother me at all, and I often stopped to think about that, and even marvel at it. That was true before the first eye was done, and it was true as I approached surgery on the second eye, completely knowing what I'd have to lie still for.
So it was a continuous feeling of acceptance, commitment to doing a good job as a patient, and optimism about the results. Without the drug, I guess I'd have experienced something else — more stress and thinking I wish this word be over — but as it was, it didn't feel like some extra bonus drug experience. I never thought, gee, I wish I could have a dose of this on a normal day, just to get high and have fun.
With the Valium, where I did feel the relaxation, I remember thinking I would NOT want this on a normal day and I would not want this to be my natural feeling. It's too relaxed! I felt inert as if life was just sitting around doing nothing.
"Althouse. I don't remember much post OP drugs or instructions after either of my surgeries. Did you have laser or mechanical surgery? I'm surprised anyone would opt for the latter these days unless no one offered a laser option."
I had the laser. I had to pay out-of-pocked for that added cost, and I think I paid extra for another thing, totaling $1500 out-of-pocket for each eye. The insurance paid close to $6,000 per eye.
I think some people might not want to pay extra.
I've paid $800 for glasses, so the extra I paid was about the cost of 4 pairs of glasses, and now I don't need glasses.
"Althouse. I don't remember much post OP drugs or instructions after either of my surgeries. Did you have laser or mechanical surgery? I'm surprised anyone would opt for the latter these days unless no one offered a laser option."
I had the laser. I had to pay out-of-pocked for that added cost, and I think I paid extra for another thing, totaling $1500 out-of-pocket for each eye. The insurance paid close to $6,000 per eye.
I think some people might not want to pay extra.
I've paid $800 for glasses, so the extra I paid was about the cost of 4 pairs of glasses, and now I don't need glasses.
As for post-op drugs -- there are a lot of eye drops!
I have 3 different eye-drop prescriptions, and 2 of them must go in 4 times a day, one once a day, You have to do that for both eyes, and the regimen goes on for a month. That's a lot of eye drops!
But there's no pain medication. Whatever you get for the operation is all you get. After that, if you feel pain, you're just supposed to take Advil or something. I didn't even do that.
"I had Demerol for one procedure. It's supposed to be the good stuff, but I found it only mildly entertaining."
I had Demerol when I had C-sections in the early 80s. It was a very heavy drug experience, and I kept slipping into dreamland when I had a baby and visitors. I was constantly struggling to stay with the people who were with me in real life. I did think of just giving into it and enjoying it like a druggie, and I did that some of the time when the baby was elsewhere, but basically, I wanted out of that. I do think that if the surgery wasn't baby-related and I needed Demerol, I would distract myself by enjoying it as a drug experience.
Thanks for all the good wishes everybody!
And who Is behind the subandha Bose loving chief of staff, but cenk uygur the #metoo boss of young turks
When I had the first eye done, I had the other eye, which was still bad, as the comparison. With the second eye, the comparison is to the eye that has gotten really good. The second eye is in the process of clearing up, and the pupil is still very dilated, so I could worry that the correction in the second eye isn't as good. But I need to wait! The final vision isn't known for weeks. But the first eye was 20/20 the morning after the operation.
I have cataract surgery coming in the not too distant future. I'm beginning to look forward to it, no pun intended. I've had to wear glasses since I was 3. Having 20/20 vision would be strange.
Good luck with your recovery. We're keeping our eyes on you.
I had Demerol when I had C-sections in the early 80s. It was a very heavy drug experience, and I kept slipping into dreamland when I had a baby and visitors. I was constantly struggling to stay with the people who were with me in real life. I did think of just giving into it and enjoying it like a druggie, and I did that some of the time when the baby was elsewhere, but basically, I wanted out of that. I do think that if the surgery wasn't baby-related and I needed Demerol, I would distract myself by enjoying it as a drug experience.
And in this condition Dr. Northam wishes to have a "conversation" with you, and will present your end of it in court as evidence that you agreed for him to let your baby die?
I think surviving cataract surgery means you've outlived 90% or more of your cohort. You're now entitled to celebrate with TWO glasses of wine per day.
"You're now entitled to celebrate with TWO glasses of wine per day."
Things to do if I want my bedtime to be 8 pm.
Hope you are feeling good and relaxing! And hoping the results are great for you!
Brakeman Bill was the afternoon kiddie show at KTNT in Tacoma.
Indeed. Actually went to a taping back in kindergarten.
"When I had the first eye done, I had the other eye, which was still bad, as the comparison. With the second eye, the comparison is to the eye that has gotten really good. The second eye is in the process of clearing up, and the pupil is still very dilated, so I could worry that the correction in the second eye isn't as good. But I need to wait! The final vision isn't known for weeks. But the first eye was 20/20 the morning after the operation."
The second eye was only 20/70 tested the morning after the operation, but the second eye operation was done about 5 hours later in the day and with a heavier dose of the dilation drug. I had an especially good result on the first eye, and waiting for the eye to clear up is normal. I'm still waiting for the dilation to go away, and I think it's getting clearer. It can take weeks to reach full clarity. I had a post-op check up this morning and was told everything is normal and looks good.
I'm enjoying walking around without glasses at all, and I only need 1.0 readers for my computer and 2.0 readers to read a book. It's very liberating!
You have to wear a plastic shield over your eye when you sleep. It's taped to your face. And you have to sleep only on one side for a week -- the opposite side from the eye that just got the surgery. Sleeping on your back is also permitted, but I never do that. I was surprised I could sleep the whole night on one side.
I have to avoid doing things that use upper body strength and anything that puts my head below the level of my knees. The hardest part of that is remembering all the time so that you don't just impulsively reach down to pick up something that falls on the floor or lean over to put on shoes. Almost everything you need to do you can do without bending over, but you have to remember that's what you're supposed to do.
Also... no sneezing!
I had cataract surgery on both eyes (11-30 and 12-13) last year. Both eyes had been 20/200, and I could not drive at night. After surgery, I don't need glasses for distant things, only for reading. It was grear.
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