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Post by LindaG23 on Dec 11, 2014 18:34:28 GMT -5
After I got the lens in one eye, I noticed and was told the same thing. I call it my incandescent light in one eye and florescent in the other.  |
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Post by JustKaren on Dec 11, 2014 18:55:35 GMT -5
I had the same thing happen, except the cataract was more yellow ... so pinks looked coral, blues looked green ... what I thought was a red lipstick was quite purple!
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Post by midwifespal on Dec 11, 2014 19:02:09 GMT -5
Last week I had an Intra-Occular Lens implanted in my left eye using cataract surgery. I'm waiting to get the right one done, but had to postpone for a few days as I've been a bit out of sorts. The lenses are toric, multifocal and will not only mean I will never get cataracts, but it means I won't need spectacles of any sort again  . The reason for this post is that during the process I discovered something so very interesting that I really wanted to share it. The day after the left eye was done, I went for the first check-up and commented to the opthalmologist that I found the brightness a little disconcerting, nothing really worrying. I said that when I looked only through my right eye, all the colours I saw were warm and rich; through the left everything seemed much lighter and bright. She told me that as we age (40-ish onwards) our eyesight starts to change as the lens becomes less flexible. Along with this, the lens gel itself becomes browner. So, what I am seeing with my left eye is the true colour, thorough a clear lens, and the right sees colours tinged with brown. My living room wall is painted a colour I always thought was a greeny-blue; now I can see it's actually bluey-green (  ). Scariest yet is taking a sandy-brown cardi(gan) out of the washing machine today and looking for the red item that had got itself accidentally mixed in! It now looks almost mauve. It's really weird to look at the same object through first one eye, then the other and see the dramatic differences  . I wonder if this warming-up of colouring that we see as we age contributes to our 'rose-coloured' view of certain things/people  . Whoah, JustGill, that is pretty trippy. ON the other hand, even trippier is the thought that we have no way of actually knowing that what you call blue and what I call blue are in fact hitting our brains as the same color--perhaps "blue" things "look" in my brain just as "red" things look and yours, but we'd never know it. In other words, maybe your sandy-brown is just as real . This reminds me of a totally fascinating article by Oliver Sacks that I read in the New Yorker years ago. It was about (and wouldn't Dr. May be pleased with us for discussing it) stereoscopic (3D) vision, and it profiled a woman (nicknamed Stereo Sue by Sacks) who, because she had been born cross-eyed, had mono-scopic (2D) vision her whole life. That is, even after, at a certain age, the actual wandering of her eyes had been surgically repaired, at that point her brain had learned to choose one or the other image and didn't know how to combine them into a three-dimensional picture. One can function perfectly well like this--the brain develops other methods of depth perception, and until she studied this stuff a little in college, she didn't even realize she was seeing the world differently from the rest of us. But after some vision problems developed in her late 40s, Sue started doing therapy to correct her monoscopy. Gradually, and for the first time in her life, she began to see the world stereoscopically, and she was totally blown away by the experience. How amazing, to suddenly see the world in an extra dimension! Sacks says that as many as 5-10% of people might, for one reason or another, see the world monoscopically, and if they were born that way might not even realize it, because they have nothing else to compare it to. And apparently we all use monoscopy and stereoscopy to different degrees when our brain processes what we see. Pretty amazing stuff to think about. Here's a link to the article if you're interested: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/06/19/stereo-sueAnd thanks so much for telling us about this, JustGill! |
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Post by laceyrose on Dec 28, 2014 15:31:29 GMT -5
Just had my best 4-legged friend PTS. She suffered a grand mal seizure last week, and her condition has steadily gone down hill. She fell this morning on the ice and couldn't get up. I made the hard decision and let her go. But I will miss my sweetest bird dog forever. RIP Lacey girl.
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Post by Jablea on Dec 28, 2014 15:37:28 GMT -5
Just had my best 4-legged friend PTS. She suffered a grand mal seizure last week, and her condition has steadily gone down hill. She fell this morning on the ice and couldn't get up. I made the hard decision and let her go. But I will miss my sweetest bird dog forever. RIP Lacey girl. So sorry. Big hugs. |
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Post by satisfied on Dec 28, 2014 15:58:30 GMT -5
Just had my best 4-legged friend PTS. She suffered a grand mal seizure last week, and her condition has steadily gone down hill. She fell this morning on the ice and couldn't get up. I made the hard decision and let her go. But I will miss my sweetest bird dog forever. RIP Lacey girl. Such a tough thing to go through - they really do own our hearts, don't they? I notice you carry her name on Atop. Take care, laceyrose. |
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Post by stardust on Dec 28, 2014 16:57:35 GMT -5
Just had my best 4-legged friend PTS. She suffered a grand mal seizure last week, and her condition has steadily gone down hill. She fell this morning on the ice and couldn't get up. I made the hard decision and let her go. But I will miss my sweetest bird dog forever. RIP Lacey girl. Aww. I know the feeling! We have to do what is best for them. I like to think we will meet up again some day.  |
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Post by laceyrose on Dec 30, 2014 9:48:34 GMT -5
Thanks for the kind words, ladies. My sore heart needs them.
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Post by betty on Dec 31, 2014 2:02:16 GMT -5
Just had my best 4-legged friend PTS. She suffered a grand mal seizure last week, and her condition has steadily gone down hill. She fell this morning on the ice and couldn't get up. I made the hard decision and let her go. But I will miss my sweetest bird dog forever. RIP Lacey girl. Aww, so sorry to read about your loss, laceyrose!  Although I unfortunately never had a dog (I love dogs!) but "only" parakeets instead, I can imagine how you feel! It's always so sad to lose a beloved pet or to see them suffer from a serious illness! We lost many of our birds due to a serious disease over the past years and just a few months ago our little Lotti died of a tumor.  A big ... .. to you! |
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Post by laceyrose on Jan 1, 2015 13:06:55 GMT -5
Just had my best 4-legged friend PTS. She suffered a grand mal seizure last week, and her condition has steadily gone down hill. She fell this morning on the ice and couldn't get up. I made the hard decision and let her go. But I will miss my sweetest bird dog forever. RIP Lacey girl. Aww, so sorry to read about your loss, laceyrose! Although I unfortunately never had a dog (I love dogs!) but "only" parakeets instead, I can imagine how you feel! It's always so sad to lose a beloved pet or to see them suffer from a serious illness! We lost many of our birds due to a serious disease over the past years and just a few months ago our little Lotti died of a tumor. A big ... .. to you! I'm sorry, Betty. for your losses. My grandmother had birds that kept her company when she was older and lived alone. She always said their song lifted her heart. |
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