Thursday, September 28, 2006
Kewl pic of me in a hospital gown... taken minutes before my eye operation... notice the smile :-) 
--MXRR at 12:48 AM
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Finally went to have my cataract removed ... maybe that's why i am smiling moments before they wheel me inside the operationg room. Thanks to Dada i only had to pay for the lens implant. Talk about a good deal.
About same time ago last year i was diagnosed with a cataract that wasnt really a threat to my eyesight ... except for the terrible discomfort it created. When it's really bright and sunny my vison on my left eye was cloudy while my right eye saw it clearly. The procedure itself was really painless well except for the slight discomfort caused by the eyedrop anesthesia.
Hopefully after my eyes get their act together maybe i can afford to get Oakley prescription glasses. I always have a problem with my present glasses since i always find ways and means to ruin them. There was this one time that i had like four replacements made in a single week!
oh well ... still getting used to wearing glasses i guess... Oh man ... I am OLD!!!
--MXRR at 12:45 AM
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Friday, September 08, 2006
EYE to EYE
I got a cataract on my right eye a couple years back... maybe two or three years ago. It was a very unpleasant experience. Imagine doing things with just one eye... you never realize the things look entirely different once youl lose vision on one eye.... What more if you go totally blind ?
Well i found it difficult to read and to look at my computer monitor since it tires out the good eye.
Driving became really hard once you lose depth perception brought about by just using one eye... talk about having a blind spot literally.
I underwent a procedure wherein they scrape off the skin where the cataract lies. They scrape it off and replace it with a special lens which was sewn onto the edges of the remaining skin of my eyeball. Then i found out that the transparent skin on the eyeball itself had the melanin pigmentation as well making everything you see a little bit yellow its a natural thing really ... except when the lens was put in on my right eye the fluorescent lights got really white.
I remember i had to go to several doctors beside my excellent eye doctor. Since the procedure i had was sort of like being operated on... well, it did involve cutting and sewing. I had to go to a cardiologist to make sure that i can withstand the procedure... Perhaps my being on the heavy side gave them the idea that i was diabetic. My eye doctor was kinda baffled at the fact that i had a very bad case of cataract since i was kinda young to have them. Cataract usually affects older people.
Well if you lead the kind of life i lead and all the stress i had to go through then maybe you'd understand why i had them in the first place. hehe
I hate medical procedures... I'm terrified of hospitals... both my parents were in the hosptital before the passed on.
I did need to see with both eyes so i guess the choice was easy for me to make... Get It done!
I was in the operating table for about an hour or two fully awake listening to my eye doctor sing while she removes my cataract... and in fairness she did sing really well.
NOW.... i have a cataract on my left eye.... waaaaaaaaaaaaa
not again!!!
My daughter dada brought me to Medical City and had my eye checked, one of the perks of having a daughter who actually works in the hospital. The doctor said i did have a cataract and that he recommends that it be removed. He asked me if i was diabetic and i said probably not since i've been watching my sugar intake for the last couple of years and whatever wound i have still heals normally. Actually i'm hoping i'm not diabetic... at least not at the moment.
Now the lens which cost more than the lens i have on my right eye now costs almost double the amount i paid for my previous lens. Since now they dont sew the lens onto the eye. They kinda weld it. Cool!!!!
They can attach it now without having to cut it up. Great!!!
But it doesn't change my view of going to hospitals... Oh well it is kinda hard trying to see clearly on a bright day.
Maybe i could go back to reading once i have the procedure done... Maybe i can have bionic eyeballs or something ... or maybe they come up with super vision ... maybe xray vision...
or better yet settle on just having better vision than i currently have... woooohoooo
I can start reading again....
sigh
--MXRR at 3:17 AM
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Sunday, September 03, 2006
PROJECTS
Ongoing... Erik Santos album... an album of old hits from Pilipino bands of the eighties remade ala Erik. Check out my arrangements on the songs... Wag na lang kaya originally done by True Faith, Running away by the AMO band and Kailanman by Introvoyz... guitars on a couple of songs arranged by Paulo Zarate... All songs except for one recorded by Marlone Silva. Produced by Jonathan Manalo for Star Records.
The Three Inch band... now doing their demo recording... I've heard of Eight Inches but, Three?
Mastering for Fuse Band
And i'll be acting as producer for one of the songs for Pinoy Dream Academy.... The song by Soc Villanueva entitled AKO has just made it among the sixteen songs for that show.
Next week i think i'll be working with the guys from Holiday Records again.... not sure of the artist yet.
Of course BLISS is still ongoing.
Added to my wish list: Might be a good idea to get myself and IPOD and just put all the songs i've ever done on it.
A new Ibanez guitar ( again )
I did go to Araneta again to watch the Penshoppe fashion show and rock concert... didn't stay long though... My ears literally hurt... the FOH house was in my opinion terrible, vocals way too loud for me. But what do you expect from a production with twenty bands or so performing...
apparently there was no time to soundcheck. hahaha
--MXRR at 4:07 AM
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