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Old 05-27-2018 | 07:09 PM
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Living in Wisconsin is bad enough when it comes to not riding for 4-5 months each year. This year spring didn't really every arrive till very late. Then as luck would have it I needed cataract surgery the end of April. What is mostly drive through surgery for most people didn't happen for me. Somehow I got a third of the outer surface of my Cornea scraped off! I have been trying to heal for the last four weeks. Countless array of drops, different types of contacts to try and promote healing. Vision is about 20/150 last Friday, maybe better today but a long way from the 20/40 I need for my job as a trainer/driver for a school bus company.
Yesterday I felt Ok to get on the bike seeing shapes and movement out of my right eye. Took my 2014 Limited for a tank draining ride. It was awesome!!!! Felt like a freedom/birthright was being returned to me. Don't know how long it will last if I can't get my eye back to work but for now I have my riding back. I didn't go anywhere fantastic just a little stroll around Southeastern Wisconsin. Today I got the wife on back and burned up another tank. She missed it too she said. Last summer was lost to a different eye surgery for me and Intestinal surgery for my wife. Wonder what it'll be like when we get old and sick!
 
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Old 05-27-2018 | 07:18 PM
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Sorry to hear you're having trouble with the cataract surgery. I dreaded having it when I was diagnosed. Glad it only comes around one time. I wouldn't want to do it again. Hope you heal well and soon.
 
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Old 05-27-2018 | 07:54 PM
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Next work on cutting down that 4-5 month lag. Though this was a late year, due to lack of rain to wash the salt off the roads. But was a warm spring, just a week of late snow.
 
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