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Skriven 2015-06-03 10:27:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: ise westing 747
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 05-30-15  07:12 <=-

 ML>> be back in Boston in a couple months to discuss
 ML>> things with the optometrist.
 NB>> By then, any getting adjusted should have pretty much worked itself
 NB>> out, and what's left might be errors or unfixables... 
 ML> I don't want unfixables and errors! Turns out there are
 ML> some issues regarding certain eye-brain relations that have
 ML> been made worse, especially when I'm tired, such as now.

Errors at least can be fixed... hopefully... ;)  I guess I can sorta
understand why being tired could make the eye-brain issues worse... when
one is tired, things don't function as well anyway... and things in flux
could easily become more confused...  

 ML> I know it's early in the morning, but I didn't get to bed
 ML> until 0400.

I can certainly relate to that one... ;)
 
 ML>>> plus there are prismatic effects (colors resolving
 ML>>> into primaries - i.e., stuff like green becoming
 ML>>> bands of blue and yellow - when I am not looking
 ML>>> straight in front of me). 
 NB>>> That might be something to do with the lenses themselves...
 ML>> Could indeed. One of the questions I will ask.
 NB>> Good idea. :)
 ML> Funnily, in these couple weeks, though the phenomenon
 ML> persists, it's only there there when I decide to notice
 ML> it. Rest of the time it's only sort of there.

Like my haloes in low-light situations... sounds like there's at least
some accommodation being made in the eye-brain connection to let you be
able to mostly ignore it...  :)

 ML>> It's beginning - the optimal focal distances for various
 ML>> things have worked out, and a proper adjustment of the
 ML>> position of the glasses (difficult until the nosepieces
 ML>> get fixed in July) clears up the appropriate field and
 ML>> blurs out others!
 NB>> Progress.  :)
 ML> Some. But I'm not getting used to being able to read
 ML> fine print almost at arm's length and not when it's
 ML> closer by. I wonder what my effective focal distance
 ML> actually is now for reading. It's said I'm better than
 ML> 3 diopters now, which I haven't been since the 1950s.

Maybe they can do some figuring/experimenting to figure out what your
focal distances are for whichever...  Having to hold it at almost arm's
length sounds like what most people go through before correction as
their eyes get into the aging business... so maybe there's something
that can be done to correct it further...
 
 NB>>> Good advice... :)  After the cataract surgery, I was told it could
 NB>>> take even longer to get used to some things... I still see the edges
 NB>>> of the new implanted lenses when I'm in low light...
 ML>> So will this persist, or will your eyes or brain
 ML>> adjust and censor this out?
 NB>> The first answer I was given was that the eyes/brain should adjust. 
 ML> For example, I read "catarack" and actually had to go
 ML> back to verify that u cld spel after all. Closing the
 ML> eyes for a few seconds helps a bit.

I'm as prone to typoes as anyone else... though I usually catch them on
the fly and fix them...  ;)  But I find my eyes trying to see the wrong
letters sometimes too... 

 ML> The eyes/brain adkusting thing (oh, there I go again)

Typos happen.  (G)

 ML> was part of the song and dance both the ophthalmologist
 ML> and optician gave me at the hospital. Unfortunately, my
 ML> brain ain't what it used to be, and my eyes never were.

Yeah, I know... they promise the moon... and then can't deliver... after
all, it IS the moon... (G)

 NB>> But when it persisted, the answer I got was that sometimes it doesn't
 NB>> just get censored out, but that eventually, the edges should get more
 NB>> cloudy and not be so distracting...  I'm not sure how encouraging that
 NB>> really is... ;)
 ML> If you're keen on noticing things, not so much, but one
 ML> makes compromises in one's old age, doesn't one.

One does.  One certainly does... ;)

 ML> Tomorrow, Sunday, I have a flight that leaves before the
 ML> public trans does, so I was going to do the SuperShuttle
 ML> thing, but my brother suggested that we do the arrangement
 ML> we'd done before - I pay him to drive me in the amount
 ML> that I'd spend on the common carrier. In a moment of
 ML> weakness I agreed (the kid says I'll have to wake him, a
 ML> bad thing, as he doesn't wake up fully for hours). 

Apparently it worked without too much undue angst... I note from later
messages you seem to have made your connection at any rate... ;)
 
 ML>>> than the 3 to 3.5 oz they are; also, I could discern
 ML>>> now by sight the bready filler. 
 NB>>> Oh, dear... ;(
 ML>> Always was able to by taste, anyhow.
 NB>> True... now you just have the confirmation... ;)
 ML> Visual confirmation of real experience? Nah.

Somewhat a pale addition to the repertoire...?  :)

 ML>> Funny thing. A nonzero number of friends have suggested
 ML>> that I would be frightened off by them once I actually
 ML>> was able to see what they actually looked like. So far
 ML>> that has not happened.
 NB>> Were they serious...?  perhaps, insecure...? 
 ML> Sort of jokey, like old Bodle (before your time) saying
 ML> that he was so ugly falling objects avoided his head.
 ML> But these jokes are based in insecurity.

That's about what I figured....  :)  I know about the insecurity based
jokes...  ;)

 ML> Not a good tendency: I say I'm ugly/stupid/clumsy to
 ML> forestall the pain of having other people say it.

Thereby sometimes self-inflicting pain when perhaps nothing would have
been said, or even thought...  I had a friend that used to chant the
limerick (probably by Ogden Nash?): 
   As a beauty I'm not a great star
   There are others more handsome by far
   But my face I don't mind it
   Because I'm behind it
   It's the people in front that I jar...
He said it so often, I memorized it.  (G)  Granted, he didn't have a
prettyboy face, more a cragginess... but he was good enough looking, for
sure... I know he was insecure... He also used to joke about his
superiority complex that was covering up for his inferiority complex
that was covering up for (and so forth)...  

ttyl         neb

... Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.

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