It's just little ol' me here, Becky Lawrence!
(I can't believe after all these years following this wonderful forum I've never registered under my own name. Shame on me!)
Really, this has been the most dramatic event for Bill - and me too. Bill was considered legally blind in his right eye for many years. His left eye was in excellent shape until about two and half years ago, and with the vision decreasing in his left eye, he struggled. Bill couldn't recognize familiar faces, even at short distances. He still amazed me, though, with that poor vision doing the most precision work! He always taught me that you gotta have that feel, and I think Bill proved his case personally.
The next day after the eye surgery, the doctor examined him, and he said Bill had 20/25 vision in his right eye ( remember, this was his blind eye!) and it will continue to improve as the eye heals. I got the sweetest e-mail from Ernie Renn and responded to him that at this rate, Bill will end up with X-ray vision. Ernie wrote back and told me to be sure to get him his Superman t-shirt if the X-ray vision develops! Sometimes I think he's already Superman, at least in my book.
Thanks everybody for all the kind comments. I printed it out for Bill to read and it pleased him immensely ( Martin, Bill said you even wrote your note in Cologne dialect! He says in response, "Alles juhte vun en ahl nuehmahts krahd.").
Believe me, this place is one of our favorite Internet hang-outs because of you!
Cheers,
Becky Lawrence <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Bill Lawrence on 22 August 2001 at 05:36 PM.]</p></FONT>
