If you think about this, you’ll realise that it is a load of nonsense. For any event that is random, each occurrence of the event has no relationship with nor effect on any other event of the same type. If you toss a coin twenty times and get twenty heads, then the probability of the next toss being heads is still 50%, no matter how much you
expect tails on the next toss.
What has this got to do with this blog, you may ask?
Well, a couple of days after my recital in May I had an operation on my left eye to correct a retinal detachment. Last Sunday, I gave another recital, as I detailed in the last posting. What I didn’t say then was that on the way home I noticed I was losing some sensitivity in my left eye and it appeared as though a yellowish film was spreading from the top left hand corner. I left it for a day to monitor its progress and to see if it was transient (as some of these things can be) but when it was still there on Tuesday morning I decided to visit my trusty eye specialist.
The result? Guess….
I had another small retinal detachment in the same eye. I don’t have it any more – the result of another operation (by the same surgeon) which has left my eye back where it was four months ago. In this case the detachment was very small and not easy to see, but such is the skill of the surgeon that he not only identified and fixed it but also lasered more of my retina to make sure that such things would not occur again. For the next week I’m fairly comatose, but thankfully not so much as last time. This time, we got it early, but it will still be another eight weeks until the gas bubble disappears.
I’m getting good at this.
So, once again, my piano will get a rest, and I will need to go through the same long process as last time to adjust once more to changing visual acuity. At least I know what to expect this time.