20 years ago I was injured in one eye. Without an operation it would have left me going slowly blind. The operation was invented maybe 20 years earlier.

Both my eyes had a cataract at a quite early age. Artificial lenses where invented AFAIK 50 years ago. The new lenses even correct my shortsightedness and astigmatism!

So if I had lived only 50 years earlier I would be blind on one eye and quite possibly without a lense or at least seeing really foggy on the other. Now I am sitting here with - 0.5/-1 and otherwise great eye sight.

There are no words how grateful I am for the wonders of modern eye medicine.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

I'm so glad you have your vision!

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

The first successful organ transplant was in 1954.

Transplants weren't often super successful until the development of Cyclosporine in 1982.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Similar thing happened to my dad. He was slowly going blind from cataracts, like he couldn't even make out the dinner table in front of him. He just wasn't mentioning it until it became untenable.

Then we found out there's a free surgery to fix it, and now suddenly he's got clear 20/20 vision at almost 80! He's got better vision than I do lol