I've been blessed with pretty good eyesight during my life. I need readers to magnify the print when I am reading, but my distance vision has always been all right. In the past few years, I have experienced a gradual worsening of my vision. I walk three or four days a week with a friend. I began to notice that the individual leaves I used to be able to see up in a tree were now a blur of indistinguishable green. And when I read a page of a book, there would be a blurry area in the upper left of the page. I could always shift the page around so my eyes could read the blurry bits, so I didn't worry too much. Then threading needles became really difficult. I kept wanting more light for whatever task I was working on. More light always seemed to be the answer to my issues. And it helped. Up to a point.
I went to the eye doctor yesterday and she confirmed I had cataracts in both eyes, worse in the left eye. The good news is, it is fixable. No rush. I think I'll wait a few months until the COVID issue is more clear, then schedule my procedure. I have never met a person who has had cataract surgery who has regretted it, so I am pretty excited for good results.
My husband is having some health issues as well, of a more personal nature. I don't think he would like me to discuss them specifically, so I will respect his wishes. Let me just say, a general wish of good luck would be welcome on this end right now. Getting old sure is the pits.
On a lighter note, Eva was having homeschooling with her dad Monday and Tuesday of this week while her grandpa and I were away seeing doctors. She is such a creature of habit. She kept texting me, "Nana, can I have my morning break now? It's 10:30." "Nana, can I have lunch now? It's noon". Good heavens. I will be home soon and we will be back in my kitchen doing homeschool and the Earth will keep spinning on its axis.
Hope you are all well. A random quilty thought popped into my mind: have you heard of Joanna Figueroa's (Fig Tree Quilts) new Winter Solstice quilt along? It looks very interesting. Eight-inch blocks with a dark background. I do miss the nice big PRINT HERE button for printing the patterns, but you can copy and paste and work around it.
Hope your week is going great. Not long until Christmas. I just want to get back home and stay put until mid-February.