Impossble Surgeries Now to Become Un-Blinding with Cataracts

 I am homeless, and-- absent corrective surgery-- I shall go blind. I am indeed, as I have stated herein, blind with cataracts in my right eye, but with the left eye and strong diopter glasses, the left eye's cataract is not so bad and I can read with it. I need cataract surgery. . . .but I am homeless-in-a-shelter and I do not think it will be easy to get time (at least seven days of inactivity) from my shelter due to its confirmed rule that residents will have to 'be out' from the place from about 7no-later-am to no earlier than 3p. This is a commonplace with many Louisville shelters, and certainly I can neither expect to get a breach of 'the usual rules' nor find a better or just kinder place from which to get surgery soon.

I saw the opthamologist assigned to my by University of Louisville Physicians and my optometrist on Friday, yesterday August 13, which was at a clinic called Lions' Club Eye Center; this Dr. Washington said I best should have cataract surgery NOW, but relented when I told him, as I have to readers, above, that I think it would be considered exorbitant by my shelter-- said to be the 'best' or nearlu-so in town, and for those reasons and more would prefer to wait until I had 'real domicile' before these  corrections to my vision.

I told the doctor that I prayed to have 'my own place' by Christmas; I however have no 'nibbles' about those stabilizing home-prospects and yes indeed my plans for un-blinding surgery in January 2022 may not work. . . I am at the vortex of much turbulence that looks totally capricious, and cruelly-so mean at that!

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