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HEALTH & CARE | LIFE LESSONS
The story of how I lost both my eyes and how much I regret it
(excerpts from my cataract chronicles)
I started keeping cataract chronicles files late in 2023, when in no more than a few months my eyesight dramatically worsened until I could hardly see my feet and I stumbled and hit my toes and fell on my knees and my shoulder, and finally I walked bang into a glass door in a fancy shop on Orchard Road.
The spectacles solution
I need to visit an optician, — I told Michaela.
Better sooner than later, — she replied.
My go-to optician is Kwong Shin in Bras Basah Complex, where just about everything is pleasing to the senses: the handsomely curved lines swirling along the stairways in their trademark post Art Deco architecture so typical of the Singapore nineties, the colored window panels displaying their dance of light at the side of the National Library, the assorted print and stationary shops on the ground floor with their writing brushes and Chinese paper and inkpads and calligraphy sets, the buzz in the art studios and…
