By Thomas Kies
On Valentine’s Day, my first cataract surgery took
place. Romantic, huh?
It was my left eye and before the surgery, it had
gotten so that I could barely see out of it.
My vision faded so slowly, so subtly, that I didn’t notice it until it
got really bad.
Once that surgery took place, one eye was still
nearsighted, as it had been since I was five years old, and

