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Huffington Post Journal: Installment #3

The third installment of my volunteer journal is up at the Huffington Post for those of you who might like to take a look.  Click here to read it.

Old Age: A Preview

It is often said that with age comes wisdom. And while I do believe that's true, I'm also becoming quite well aware of the fact that wisdom, like age, does not come alone. Wrinkles, moles, achy joints, a little sag here and a little bag there; these are all midlife harbingers of things to come.

Take cataracts for instance. Why? Well what could possibly scream “old” louder than cataracts? Not much, I can assure you.

Sitting in the waiting room at the eye surgery center, my husband surveyed the room and said “You're way too young to be here.” “Tell me about it,” I responded with a sigh. While some of my hair color does come from a bottle, I do still have a lot of my own natural color mixed in. I couldn't say the same for the rest of the room. Gray hair, white hair, bald heads, canes. What the hell?

At 46, I am young to have cataracts. Why I have them is anybody's guess . . .it's either a side effect from my year-round allergy medication use or just luck I suppose. But, whatever the cause, I have a cataract in my left eye that has grown very rapidly and is robbing me of my sight in that eye. I also have very early signs of a cataract in my right eye. So, there I sat, with my gray-haired comrades, waiting for the doctor to disintegrate the lens of my left eye with ultrasound, suck it out with a little vacuum and

More Huffington Post Journal

I have a new campaign volunteer journal installment up over at the Huffington post for anyone who is interested.  Click here to read about my volunteer experiences over the past week and, please, leave me a comment so I know you've stopped by!  Thanks.

My Huffington Post Journal

For those of you who are interested in the current presidential election as much as I am, check out my post at Huffington Post.  For the next few weeks, I am keeping a journal of my volunteer activities and posting the more interesting portions (once a week) at Huffington.  If you're interested, click on the link to my post and please leave me a comment there.  Thanks!