Am I just talking to the walls?

I had another moment like this yesterday!

He got cataracts from the pred, so he had a lens replacement years and years ago. After the lens replacement, he was very angry that "no one told me the artificial lens was fixed-focus!" But, you know, done is done. But he refused to consider having the other lens replaced.

Over the years, he would still occasionally bitch about it. And I spent years being vaguely angry that the surgeon (whose name I can't even begin to remember) would leave out this vital information about the operation. He often would bring it up as an example of the general incompetence of every doctor he has ever dealt with.

So yesterday, we go for an eye exam. So I'm chatting with the optometrist during my exam (right after she tells me "Everything looks very healthy, the age-related deterioration is proceeding right on schedule!" Yeah, thanks, don't you have a pill for that or something?) and I ask her about his exam. She mentions the cataract is still there, and we talk about driving, and she says "Well yes, he should never drive without glasses, given that his lens is focused at computer distance." I nod wisely, as if I know what she's talking about.

So later....

"Oh, honey, the doctor mentioned your lens being focused at computer distance, what was that about?" "Oh, well, before the operation the doctor said the lens would be focused at a certain length, and he asked me where I wanted it focused. So I told him computer distance."