Year 3 week 46
12th – 18th November 2018
It has been just over a week now since I had my cataract operation on my left eye. Things are going well and it’s healing nicely.
However I feel that my vision is very weird I can’t really explain it but it’s like I can see out of one eye and not the other. It can be very disorienting at times. Which is very frustrating.
To see only half an image clearly is annoying and sometimes off putting.
But having the operation has its benefits though. I am now noticing things that I haven’t seen in a long time. I have always thought that something looked one way when in reality it has been different.
I have been doing a lot of comparing between my left and right eye. I just didn’t realise before how much I couldn’t see. I definitely couldn’t see any clarity or detail and I had got used to feeling things.
I know this may sound weird but by me feeling an object it helped me fill in the blanks and my mind would interpret what it was I was seeing. I found myself using my hands a lot to see things, to find things and to help me get about.
I have heard it say that if one of your senses wasn’t working properly another would take over for it. It’s only now that I can see things a lot more clearly that I realised I relied so much on my sense of touch just to get by.
Even though this weird vision I am experiencing at the minute is frustrating I am also learning a lot. Learning that if there is a problem there is always another way around it. If one way doesn’t work try another.
My weight now has not budged for a long time and it’s been frustrating. I know l don’t have as much willpower as I did in the first year but I still want to lose weight. Maybe this means I just need a rethink and change things about a bit and try again. Maybe it will get my willpower back?
