Cataracts and birding

[brian fleming <>]

  In her late 80s my mother had cataract  surgery on both eyes. One eye 
was much worse than the other and caused the surgeon a lot of trouble.
He said that she must have had the cataract developing for a long time.
  I recalled that many years before I had obtained a new pair of 
binoculars. Mum of course had a look through them.  Her comment was:
  "There must be something funny about these lenses,  the colour is 
different between left and right.  One is much yellower than the other."
    I wish I had known that this is a classic cataract symptom.  If she 
had that eye treated earlier, she might have been saved so much trouble 
and pain later.
    She was an enthusiastic watcher of birds in her garden right till 
her death aged 90.
Anthea Fleming
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