Little to report on the heart front, happily. Health seems to be good. Cut down on the hay fever and allergies with the spraying of the box elder bugs. Now the windows are a mess. But, oh well, an easy trade off. Workouts continue apace. We are looking forward to proceeding south in a month or so.
But wait, there's more. Doing the cataract thing. One eye this Thursday and the second in two weeks. The shades over my eyes have grown progressively worse, as happens to most of us of a certain (advanced) age. The procedure now takes 20 min. They make a 2 mm incision into the sac that holds the lens. Then they blast that with ultra sound and suck it out. I do not remember how they get the new lens in because it would also initially have to be 2 mm small. I am sure that intake and post-op recovery will add an hour on each end, but the efficiency is really remarkable. And there is money to be made. It was interesting to me how long it was to get an appointment for the annual check up; but when I mentioned surgery, the doors were flung open and I was welcomed in almost immediately. My long time opthamologist will do the procedure. When he examined me last week, he had done 9 before coming into the office. Can you say moolah? He tells me he has been doing them for many years, virtually error free. Gambler's fallacy, anyone? Both lenses will be for long vision as I understand it, with prescription glasses for reading.
To be continued....
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