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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hh1" data-source="post: 2505594" data-attributes="member: 146541">Morning all, morning [USER=402436]@karen8967[/USER], good to hear from you, so pleased Tommy had a good send-off and hope you're coping okay.I had a day out (well, 5 hours) travelling to Bristol Eye Hospital for a follow-up appointment after my optician sent me earlier this year as an emergency possibly detaching retina.  It wasn't, but I was diagnosed with retinoschisis (no, I'd never heard of it either) so I was called for a check up.  Everyone I'd usually ask to take me was either booked to do something else or away for Easter, and the appointment letter said the appointment could take 3 - 4 hours so it was a big ask of anyone anyway.  I drove up and did a park & ride into Bristol as I figured by the time I got back to my car, if the eye drops hadn't worn off I could just hang about until they did.  News was no problems, eyes by and large pretty healthy, and I have a nevus at the back of my right eye (again, who knew?).  Apparently it's okay for now, 'genuinely nothing to worry about though get your eyes checked annually'.  The eye hospital was so busy they had people wait outside until 5 minutes before their appointment time, and whilst there was some waiting around between initial standard read the letters and get the drops, then have pictures and scans (lots of impressive equipment for that!) and finally seeing the doctor, I thought the service was impressive.  I was in the hospital for 2 hours, had the least awful eye drops ever and by the time I got back to the car I was genuinely fine to drive.  I met several genuinely kind and helpful people, including the man who walked me up to the hospital from the park & ride because I didn't know where I was going!Happy Easter all <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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