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EYE SURGERY — A TIME OF WAITING

June 21, 2018

Cataracts. Cataract surgery. In 1991 when my ophthalmologist told me I had retinitis pigmentosa, he also said I have cataracts. He said they were a natural part of my eye condition, and that there was no point in having them removed yet, because they would just grow back. “Have them removed in the future, when they start bothering you,” he said. So I waited. Four years ago, at my annual eye appointment, Dr. Lewis told me it was probably a…

2017: A YEAR OF CHANGE AND PROGRESS

To talk about what 2017 meant in the life of the Doolittle family, we have to travel back to April 12, 2016. Martha‘s 57th birthday. She took a day off and drove to the north side of Houston to visit her therapist. She intended to return home, pick me up, and together we would get Dorothy from school. Then celebrate Martha‘s birthday at Grace’s restaurant on Kirby. In the middle of the afternoon my cell phone rang; it was Martha.…

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EYE SURGERY — A TIME OF WAITING

2017: A YEAR OF CHANGE AND PROGRESS

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