Looking at Things in New Ways

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