 witnessed the power of such a cancerous meme. Beautifully constructed. The subtly of it's powerful message playfully winding and interweaving itself into the very fabric of history and music. From earnest faces of time gone by to the morbid reminder of life's clock ticking away whether we whimper or shout. The ferocity of innocence as we march towards whatever may come. And ultimately stand still with a gentle smile wondering "was it all worth it?". Magnificence of such exalting delight has no meme encountered such as this. I stand here a humble creature uttering weakly "Bravo...bravo".So you note symptoms of decreased vision and glare. Your ophthalmologist determines cataract surgery is required to improve your visual function. What additional information do you require to make an informed decision about your cataract surgery?
As our Hamilton eye doctors can attest, cataract surgery has improved drastically over the past 3 decades. Two advancements have been the vanguard of this revolution: small incision surgery and the refinement of the intraocular lens (IOL).
Cataracts can now be removed using incisions less than one-tenth of an inch across. Surgical microscopes, a vibrating needle to break up the lens (phacoemulsification), and foldable intraocular lenses make this miracle a daily reality. These instruments in an experienced surgeon’s hands provide rapid, painless vision recovery.
The type of intraocular lens implanted at the time of your cataract surgery will determine how often you will require glasses to perform your daily tasks. The greater your understanding of these choices, the more productive your preoperative discussion with our Princeton-area ophthalmologists will be. The choice of lens implant will determine how frequently and under what circumstances you will require glasses following your surgery.
The lens in the eye sits behind the iris (i.e., the colored part) and along with the cornea, it is responsible for focusing the light on the retina.
Current IOLs are miracles of modern science; however, even the most advanced lens does not match the phenomenal capabilities of the natural crystalline lens that you were born with. Your native lens, in its youth, could effortlessly change power to bring whatever you chose to view into focus instantly.
As the lens becomes more rigid and inflexible with time, it can no longer change its focus easily, leading to the need for reading glasses or bifocals some time in the mid-forties. As the lens ages, it becomes cloudy — and when it begins to obscure the vision, then it is considered a cataract.
When this lens is removed during cataract surgery, a new lens must be implanted — much like if you removed a lens on a camera, you would have to put a new one on before you could expect to take a photo.
How important is it for you to minimize your need to wear glasses?
Is it more important to you to perform near tasks, like reading or distance tasks, such as driving and watching TV.
Monofocal Lens: This is the most versatile and most widely implanted lens by far. It has a single refractive power. Measurements of your eye are taken to determine the power of the implant needed to give you the desired refractive result. A popular choice with the monofocal lens is monovision. With monovision, a monofocal lens is used to allow one eye to see distance and one eye to see near. This allows for most tasks to be done without spectacles. If better vision is required (for driving at night, for example) glasses can be used for those more demanding situations.
Toric Lens: The toric lens addresses astigmatism. The astigmatic error due to the cornea is not alleviated with cataract surgery. A toric lens has different refractive power, along different portions of the lens. This lens has to be lined up with the axis of the patient’s corneal astigmatism. Correcting the astigmatism with the toric lens allows patients with corneal astigmatism to be more spectacle independent. This lens can also be used for monovision.
Multifocal Lens: These implants use the optical principle of diffraction to divide the incoming light, providing both a distance and near focal point. Using this lens, both eyes can be set up in a similar fashion, and both eyes can function at both distance and near. Since the light is divided into two focal points, there is some degradation of the quality of the image, and this can decreased contrast sensitivity, a more sensitive measure of vision. These lenses also produce significantly more glare at night — so if night driving is an important task, these lenses are not ideal. The optical aberrations produced by these lenses cannot be corrected by simply wearing glasses. Recently, extended range of focus lenses have been introduced as variants of multifocal lenses that attempt to minimize the downsides of a multifocal lens.
Only you can determine when or if you would like to be spectacle independent after cataract surgery. The evaluation and discussion with your ophthalmologist will determine what is ideal for you.
Cataract surgery is indeed a modern miracle. Choosing the correct implant for you will ensure you get the most out of your surgery.YMMV: Bridget Jones
- Broken Base: Some fans loved the second film, others hated it. The same could be said for the 3rd book, with the reveal that Mark Darcy is dead.
- Fanon Discontinuity: A portion of the fanbase pretends that the third book just doesn't exist precisely because Mark is dead.
- Harsher in Hindsight: In the beginning of the novel, Pam mentions to Bridget about a family friend's daughter Julie having a "super dooper job" at the large Arthur Anderson firm
; a few years later, it was found guilty of criminal practices involving the auditing of Enron.
- Heartwarming in Hindsight: Jacinda Barrett's portrayal of Rebecca Gillies isn't very revolutionary in LGBT representation in Cinema, but it seemed to be a big welcome to any quest
ioning young people to see a positive portrayal of an LGBT person coming out, it gets even more heartwarming when projects like It Gets Better years after the film came out.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: That's Moaning Myrtle crying in a bathroom in her first scene. To continue with the Harry Potter theme, there's also Professor Slughorn and Madam Pomfrey being married.
- It's hard to believe how bitchy Miss Honey is to Bridget.
- This isn't the only time Rebecca Pryce had to deal with her man checking out curvy girls, bunny girls, or both.
- Mark and Colin are father and son
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- Hollywood Homely: There have been some film reviews regarding Renee Zellweger's weight gain for the role, assuming that Bridget was meant to be less attractive rather than just a regular person, there was a particularly egregious article mentioning her and a few questionable examples of stars "getting hideous to play regular people"
and one People magazine article about the third book referred to her as "frumpy", of course most viewers and readers would disagree with such an assessment (by Hollywood and Vogue types) that a fuller Renee would have trouble finding someone that likes her. A meta example being that someone said that Rachel Weisz is too beautiful for the role.
- Mainstream Obscurity: According to the author of this article
, the perception of Bridget as an overweight and whiny loser is incorrect since she starts out working in the competitive field of book publicity, has an attractive and interesting crew, and weighs under the average weight for British women (154 lbs. to Bridget's 125-138 lbs) is really harder on herself than warranted and is loved by friends and family, for good reason.
- Moral Event Horizon: In Edge of Reason when Cleaver sees Bridget getting arrested and just looks the other way
- Retroactive Recognition: What's this... Bridget's gay friend is a womanising scientist from the Aerilon colony?
- Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: The series in its own way drops several.
- The first novel/film: "You have to believe in yourself and not try to focus on being some paragon of perfection, concentrate on being human" along with "You have to know know what you want and not enter a relationship for the sake of being in a relationship."
- The second novel/film: "It's imperative that you be yourself and let the people you love know how much you love them" and Poor Communication Kills.
- The third novel: "Just because you reached a certain age/are widowed/have kids doesn't mean that life stops, you have to still live for yourself and step outside your comfort zone."
- Unknown Rival: Bridget and Natasha. Bridget (Lizzy Bennett style) didn't care much for Mark and like Caroline, Natasha would snub and insult Bridget just to show her up in front of Mark note. Double-Subverted with Bridget and Mark ultimately getting together.
- Values Dissonance: Bridget's mum brings a Masai tribesman back when she goes on holiday to Africa. She nicknames him 'Wellington' because she can't pronounce his name. Bridget is, of course, aghast.
- A similar incident occurs (in the book, anyway) when Bridget's mother Handwaves the possible reasons for Mark's ex-wife's adultery: "Well, of course, she was Japanese. A very cruel race..."
- An In-Universe Cultural example has the second film showing Bridget and Mark going to functions involving his work, they wouldn't sit next to one another and many American viewers would fault him for