XPost: alt.usage.english, sci.physics   
   From: robban1@bigpond.com   
      
   On 10/08/11 9:27 AM, Peter Moylan wrote:   
   > Robert Bannister wrote:   
   >> On 10/08/11 3:36 AM, David Hatunen wrote:   
   >   
   >>> When I had my natural eye lenses replaced with plastic lenses I was told   
   >>> I would be ale to  a teeny bit into the ultraviolet, the plastic being a   
   >>> little more transparent to it than my natural lens had been [*], but I   
   >>> never did anything to determine to just what photon energy I could see.   
   >>>   
   >>> [*] Of course, by the time I had the replacements done the cataracts in   
   >>> my natural lenses turned everything a yellowish hue. When the bandages   
   >>> first come off the first impression is that everything is intensely   
   >>> bluish, kind of like those irritating auto headlights.   
   >>   
   >> Please don't frighten me. I've just done a trial of a hearing aid that   
   >> made everything sound like a tape-recording - mainly chairs squealing,   
   >> doors slamming, engine noises - basically, unbearable. And on the 17th I   
   >> am having cataract surgery. I have already been warned that, until the   
   >> other eye is done, I may have considerable difficulty, and now you tell   
   >> me I'm going to get the blues as well.   
   >>   
   > Getting your senses back always carries the risk of surprises. When I   
   > stopped smoking, I was shocked to discover how many bad stinks there   
   > were around the town. Eventually I stopped noticing them.   
   >   
      
   Ah. It's only been about two and half years for me, so I'm still   
   surrounded by bad smells, although I don't think they're just around me.   
      
   --   
   Robert Bannister   
      
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