By this time last Thursday I was sleeping. I guess I still had the pain and sleepy meds running in my system. So I’m getting back to my “normal” routine. It seems I get the most work done when everyone else in the house is sleeping and I don’t have phone calls to answer. 11:30 to whenever I go to sleep (usually between 1:00 and 2:00) is probably my most productive time working on the site or promoting it.
The fact that I can do that with some confidence is a result of the surgery. I use reading glasses that enables me to see the computer screen more clearly than I did prior to the surgery. I have the font size at +2 (two steps above medium,) which is where I used to have it. I am now also able to read, briefly, without the screen being reversed. For those not familiar with Macs, you can easily reverse the screen to see a negative view. Fonts that are usually black on a white background are reversed and become white on a black background. If my eye improve a little more, I may even be able to use a Windows machine (though why would I want to do that? Our point-of-sale system runs on a Windows machine…)
Other achievements I’ve had in the past week include seeing colors more vividly. I love just walking outside and looking around. The grass and leaves are so green and the sky is so blue. Flowers seem to have so much more color. I can also see cars on the road, signs on buildings, and, on the down side, marks and dirt on the carpet and walls.
Watching TV has become enjoyable again. I can now tell characters apart, where as before the surgery I was happy if I could tell if a character was white or black. I’ve also noticed that I am reading the ticker(s) at the bottom of the screen while I watch Bloomberg, CNBC, FNC or CNN. All the graphics on the news and sports looks sooo good.
The best thing for me so far on TV has been watching the Flyers. I don’t know if it is just from the surgery or also from watching in HD, but I can follow the puck much better that I’ve been able to in a long, long time. I guess it doesn’t hurt that they’ve been winning either. Lets see if I enjoy watching them play the Caps… I do like Ovechkin — he is one of my favorite players. He is a complete, tough player, unlike Crosby who is a gifted player but the worlds biggest crybaby.
My first outing to a sporting event was this past Monday. I went to Jane’s softball game against Abington Friends. I was very happy how much more of the action I was able to follow. I did lose track of the ball on some hits though. I enjoyed the game even though Jane’s team lost (though Jane knocking in a run and scored another) and the umpire was terrible (though that is not why they lost.) I am looking forward to watching some of Jake’s lacrosse games. His last game before my surgery, I had trouble seeing the players who weren’t near the sideline we were on.
Lets face it, my eyes still suck in a big way, BUT, I can see so much more than I could before the surgery. I have more confidence wondering around a store by myself (of course, until I get glasses or better reading glasses, I still can’t see what is on the shelf…) I’d also be comfortable finding the bathroom on my own in a restaurant, which is something I would not do before the surgery. I am still hopeful of reading printed material and throwing a ball around with Jane or Jake. Maybe next week…