Thursday, July 03, 2008

In the Kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king

Much to our dismay he has been wittering on about getting his eyes lasered so he can do away with his glasses, we say dismay as long-term readers will recall the various tales of woe of glasses lost and broken that have enlivened these pages from time to time.

Well having talked about it for ages he has finally got round to having it done and much to our joy it has gone heinously wrong and he is basically blind in one eye.

Now as operations go having some bugger hack the front of your eye off, then burn your cornea away (the smell of burning flesh is a real treat) and then having that same bugger gently smooth the bit of your eye he has hacked off back down with a little brush is pretty much up there as being rancid as hell but having it all go wrong is pretty funny, well for us at least.

Basically the latest news is that they inadvertently cut a new astygmatism into his left eye which leaves him mildly unhappy. Being told they can put it right but it needs another operation (as above) has not improved his mood.

He has ordered an eye-patch to help the vision...from a "specialist" web-site, goodness knows what it will be like.

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