In My View

I'm weighing this morning whether I want to go to the doctor for my eye problem. It sounds like a no-brainer, but, here in Bali, it's not that simply. One remembers what they said about teh skin cancer on the top of my ear. "Ah, yes, we must amputate part of your ear." Or, indeed, what I was told perhaps four years ago when I went to an eye doctor about vision problems. "Ah, yes, you have cataracts. We can remove." As it happened, my wife insisted on consulting a cataract specialist, who said "Ah, no, you have no cataracts at all. No surgery necessary." One can only imagiine what they might say about an itching, blurry left eye. "Ah, yes, must be removed. Can insert prosthetic eye."

On the other hand, the problem has gotten so annoying that I'm thinking about removing the eye myself.