If you are reading this on the day it is released, then I am or will have been in surgery for a cataract today. It’s the ultimate irony for a photographer to lose their vision, but also a reality for many of us who are older. In my case, it is doubly frustrating. Other eye issues I’ve had since 2014 mean that the eye being operated on today is my only “good” eye.
I’m titling this in the hope that this will be the outcome. Of course, every surgeon has to apprise you of the risks, which even for routine, production line surgery like this are still somewhat frightening. Bleeding, swelling, damage to other eye structures, infection, reaction to the materials that the new lens is made of, and on and on. But it is “routine” surgery, sometimes even performed with the aid of computer guided instruments. Hope that computer doesn’t have a crash today.
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Many people find it hard to find the one thing they want to do with their time that makes them happy. For some, they know from an early age that they will be a doctor, lawyer, baker, etc. I never knew. Still don’t. But I do love photography. Over the past year, I’ve immersed myself in it, studied it, practiced it. But it’s been a bit of a hard road. 
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