An Eye Operation

The day after…

David: Replacing the lens under a local anesthetic was more dramatic than I’d anticipated. Think travelling through landscapes like Matrix and Space Odyssey. Bright lights, vivid colors. HAL as doctor, machines pumping and screeching and beeping, nurses flying about like bird flocks. 

Helena: A robot doc?

David: No, he’s a 30 something human doc, joking around with colleagues, and as he installed the artificial lens I could see pink fish, green corals, and a yellow sunset in a turquoise sky.

Helena: A Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds chamber?

David: Yes, but I was certainly conscious that he was putting a knife in my eye. Then at the end he said the op went as planned. Could have been my imagination but he sounded a bit disappointed. He admitted to me once he likes ops that go off like fireworks.

Helena: But now you can see clearly?

David: Plaster removed from left eye this morning. WOW, the clarity, with no glasses. Like when I was a kid. Time travel!
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Voice-over

David passed the doctor’s rolling eyeb
all test the morning the plaster came off the eye. Not out of the woods yet though, pressure still up in the eye. Check on it next week.