I Had Eye Surgery. This Is What I Realized.
It wasn’t about my eyes.
5 min readJul 24, 2023
Last month I had eye surgery. We (wife and I) live in Chile. The ophthalmologist who performed the surgery had the reputation of being the best eye surgeon in the country.
How I knew eye surgery was inevitable: that telltale thin white cloud that had gradually blanketed the vision in my left eye. Fortunately I don’t drive…