Turns out, I've been cheating for years

With my peeps at last

So I had cataract surgery on my left eye yesterday, and though it went swimmingly, a follow-up visit to the surgeon this morning revealed an unpleasant surprise: I will now require reading glasses full time. It seems that my left eye was a tad shortsighted, and I’ve been unwittingly using that feature to read small print all this time: my right eye is useless for the purpose. Now that the left eye has been “corrected”, I can’t read without corrective lenses on both. Bummer.

I’m reminded of that poor fellow who, holding his crippled hand up to the sky, beseeches, “Oh Lord, make my hands alike!” Lightning flashes, thunder rolls, and wham! Both hands are rendered useless claws.

Oh, well.