[Jeff Higgins]

I am experiencing one of the most incredible things I think I have ever experienced. I went in for cataract surgery on my right eye just two days ago, on Monday. I had experienced an incredibly rapid deterioration of the vision in my right eye over the course of about the last year and a half or so. From essentially 20/20 to approaching legally blind.

Monday, my world changed. My vision was restored. I went in for a follow up yesterday, just one day later, and tested at 20/20 again in my right eye. The very next day after surgery. I am simply gobsmacked. No one could have ever convinced me this was possible.

I'm told that undiagnosed, untreated cataracts blind over 17 million people every year. What a horrible statistic. As "quick and easy" as this surgery was, spending literally less than ten minutes on the table and maybe one hour total in the clinic, I find that inexcusable. We are quite good at this. We know how to do this. But I digress.

You guys know how important my shooting is to me. I have essentially not fired a rifle in almost a year. I went to the handgun, because I could almost see the targets and sights, but that's been it. Even that I was not doing very well. I quite honestly thought my shooting days were behind me.

Beyond that, driving my beloved 911 on the track had become rather unenjoyable. I was simply missing too many of my markers, with things surprising me that should not have. Even on tracks where I have thousands of laps, it was starting to feel maybe even a bit dangerous to continue. Not to mention riding my motorcycles... I just wasn't "noticing" things soon enough to adequately react to them. I was really starting to worry that my days were numbered for all of that.

I found myself, unsurprisingly, falling into a pretty deep funk. Where I had for all of my life been able to engage in those pursuits as my own form of "mental therapy", I was at the point of starting to consider the real deal.

What a difference a day makes. I cannot believe the change. Not just in vision, but in outlook. No one could have convinced me this was even possible. God bless those of us who have dedicated their lives to doing these things for us.