Beginning the road to recovery...

Welcome back!! I’ve been wondering how things went.
Where’s the camera? You need a pix to back up your story :)

Did you say “box” ?? I want to make a box.. just a box… any box.. (hehe I do believe I’ve said that before).

Having your plans sitting there must really make you anxious to get tools into your hands.

I’m glad to hear that things went amazing (and I can’t help you with the bigger view question).
Looking forward to hearing further updates.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Actually, I was getting ready to get onto the store and order myself one of them organic cotton fitted lumberjock t-shirts. I happen to have another situation where I need a creative and inventive picture taken of me wearing my hiking boots (to make a long story short, I wrote a grateful letter to the president of Superfeet, an insole company, and they wanted to use my letter in some publications along with some pictures of me hiking or doing whatever in my shoes w/the insoles. In exchange, they’re going to give me a few free pairs of insoles for my other shoes!).

I figured I’d kill three birds w/one stone and get some pictures taken of me wearing my lumberjocks t-shirt, my workmans utilikilt, and my hiking boots with the insoles. I suppose at this point, the picture would also represent me SANS corrective lenses! Of course, I might be wearing safety glasses or sunglasses – I’ve wasted no time in buying several pairs of each so far…

I’ve made just a few boxes. I have a lot of thoughts and ideas on boxes, but I should probably save that for another post, Deb.

-- Ethan, http://thekiltedwoodworker.com

Ethan, welcome back. Good news about your improving eye-sight. Yes, do protect those eyes. Wearing glasses (why don’t we call them plastics these days?) gives us a level of eye protection. I don’t really like to use my reading glasses for protection because I don’t believe that provide adequate all-direction protection. But, never-the-less, they have occasionally provided protection. So if you don’t need glasses to see clearly, resist the temptation to do even the slightest woodworking without eye protection.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hillsbiblechurch.org/

I have a problem, I’m near sighted and I have to take my glasses off to see to do woodworking. And I’m not always wearing safety glasses. I probably need to buy a couple of good pairs of then instead of the $1.99 Harborfreight specials

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Have a speedy recovery!

-- Jesus is Lord!

That utilikilt looks…practical? interesting! Glad to hear about your vision.

Glad your back and on the road to the shop. A friend of mine loves his utilikilt as well… maybe I’ll check one out for myself. Needs a different sort of protective wear though, no?

I feel your “itch” to get back into the swing of things. My wife is out of commission for the next few weeks, spent the better part of the week in the hospital (scheduled) so now my days are spend helping her get back on her feet.

Got to go check out the superfeet link now… (as an ex-runner always looking for something to help out the knees, and maybe get me back out on the road!)

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Van Gogh -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

I know exactly how you feel! I had it done in 2000. I was blind as a bat without my thick glasses! I ended up having to go back and have one eye done over. Now I have one eye that sees distance and the other is close up. Otherwise I would have had to go back to wearing glasses. Even thinner lenses no way! Now my distance eye has changed. I can see ok but now I wear a contact for driving long distances. It’s still better than glasses. For awhile you’ll be trying to push up your glasses on your nose. How funny that is when you DUH remember you don’t have them on! And it’s nice to be able to SEE when you wake up. Never could read the digital numbers on my clock. Always just a blur of red.
I don’t use power much but I always wear protection on my eyes. I now have to wear a set of headset glasses as having the eyes differant I get dizzy. But I can deal with that. I also have the halo effect. Not as bad as when it was done but man those cars with the new blue lights just about do me in.
Congratulations!
Krum

Glad to hear the operation was a success. I hope that you get 20-20 vision out of this.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

Congratulation Ethan,
I wish you a speedy, & successful recovery. I have two nieces that had that surgery, they both had success.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1