hi this is trip that retired guy usa.com that's what my blog is and I blog about
retirement and also personal finance well you can see it's kind of getting to
be a little closer to the autumn actually we're technically in autumn as
as of a couple of days it is so hard it really doesn't feel like it but anyway
um I went today to see about my cataract surgery my eyes are still real dilated
that's why I'm blinking a lot and I'm looking out the window and to the Sun
there so anyway it appears and don't quote me on this and don't act on it but
it looks kind of like that Medicare will not pay for cataract surgery if it is
not a quality of life issue in other words if you're getting along okay then
then they won't cover it so and that's the case for me I'm not interested in
having unnecessary surgery my eyes I can still function very well I can read I
can work on the computer watch TV I can drive or do anything I want to so it
really hasn't affected me that much so what I'll do is I'll go back in in four
months and see if I'm if my cataract is any worse and it is bad I find out today
that this is my dominant eye so the way they the whether they figure that out is
you do a test looking at your at your thumb like that and and anyway that's
how they do it so I didn't know that until today really that was that that
was my dominant eye and it's probably why I get along so well as well as I do
because I compensate for this I over here for the bad eye but everybody will
need cataract surgery eventually it's just a matter of time if you live long
enough that's what the doctor told me then you're going to eventually need the
surgery one day but at least I am now I'll go for a few months now
and if you get any work so I go back sooner
if not I'll continue on and and have another checkup then I see my rather my
regular autamorist once a year and my retinal specialist once a year but I
staggered the appointments so that I'm seeing one of the other every six months
and now I'm adding a new a new physician to the equation so I guess I'm as well
covered as anybody is that's about all I want to do is just to
update you for that say I would say bye-bye
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