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  • Corneal scarring--Final post

    Corneal Scaring Links1 Background2 Losing depth perception3 No 3-D4 Pre-op The SurgeryAfter the preliminary exams checking my fitness for the procedure, I was set to have surgery. You can understand how nervous I…

  • Corneal scarring--Last, pre-op

    I have this incurable habit of going off on a tangent. Many of my students know this and seem to gleefully lead me astray in class with unrelated questions to minimize actual study time. I want to say that I realize what…

  • Corneal Scarring 3: No 3D

    Our school holds an orientation for incoming freshmen every year, and yesterday I participated in the Major Fair, an event where new students have the opportunity to talk to faculty about majors they are interested in …

  • Corneal scarring 2: Losing depth perception

    Previously on Onigiriman..."Back then, it was what it was, and you learned to live with irreparable scars and injuries. Indeed, after a week or so, my vision seemed to revert to normal. I thought it had healed itself, …

  • Corneal scarring...

    A couple of comments asked about the corneal scar I mentioned in my last post. Well, it isn't as dramatic as Onigiri might imagine--no, I did not get stabbed in the eye like your cousin. Whew! Now that would be a story t…

  • Lycopene heaven

    I love tomatoes. So the current outbreak of salmonella is very disturbing. Then I heard what it was that spreads salmonella to the tomatoes: fecal matter. One possibility is that feces can be directly spread by animals w…

  • I'm hungry...

    But it's 4 AM and if I ate anything right now, it would go straight to my waist. I've been hovering around the 160 lbs. mark for the past three weekends. M--bless her heart--bought four (4) bags of Doritos last weekend: …

  • Embarrassed

    Everything I think about these days seems to be related to aging. Even the things I don't want to think about are age related. Like my memory. I used to drop gingko biloba regularly but stopped this past summer as I had …

  • Still exercising

    I realize that I haven't been posting. I get the feeling that I just don't have that much to say these days. Is it me? Is it my life? Actually, these are essentially the same, aren't they. In any event, as I stated over …

  • Fighting my age

    I am definitely reaching that age. And how old is that age? Well, I suppose that it is different for all of us, but I am referring to that age when you feel your age. Well, this past summer, I felt 51. FIFTY-ONE! It wasn…

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