LIFE IN BARRABA

This is the sequel to "The Motley Expeditions". As we have decided to give up travelling in the Motley, I decided to produce a different kind of website to document our life after the Motley.

Please recognise that the pieces hereunder are generally opinion pieces. If I want to convey facts, I will provide citations. If I am describing my experiences, they are, of course, facts but they are not subject to citations.

I am a happy recipient of a Fred Hollows Miracle

The cataract operation I had a couple of weeks ago is a real miracle. I expected some improvement in my vision but the improvement I have had has been "blooming marvelous". I didn't appreciate during the months that I had lost most of the vision in the bad eye that monocular vision, though it works pretty well and I had no trouble driving, reading, driving the computer, or watching TV, how much I had lost. My newly obtained binocular vision is much much better.

I am so happy to be the recipient of this wonderful medical technology. The doctor who performed the operation said that it was the most successful medical intervention of all. I assume he was referring to the very high success rate and the very very low failure rate. I was impressed by this but my take on it i that many, many people benefit from a miraculous recover of full vision.

I guess we should all be happy contributers to the Fred Hollows Foundation so that the beneficiaries include lots of people in the "other" world.

Posted: 30/6/09 3:45 PM