Nigeria, June 23 -- For Odysseus, there was Scylla; and there was Charybdis. For today's adventurer, the odds are slightly different, though. Still, the devil on one hand and the deep blue sea on the other, are no less formidable alternatives. Thankfully, life does not always breakdown into such dilemmas. In other words, the routes we must travel down are not always as Manichaean as the former two extremes suggest. They more often involve a range of options across extensive and often enlaced spectrums. But, always, there is a choice to be made. Even so, within either context, a cataract diagnosis presaged the eventual loss of sight - if not treated, at least. While at this point, the poser at the crossroads was not exactly whether to see ...