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jjraak said:
Been busy month
This week no exception

But started the day with my first 5 in forever it seems

5.7..so rather happy with that

Saw upper limb specialist other day, nothing really of note to mention

Measured scars strength etc

Get report at some point

Eye hospital.....mmmhh

What felt like indifferent & breezy doctor examined the eye

We got off on the wrong foot by his attitude & my bristling at his comments.

Sure none of it was personal .

The take aways ?

Lining op is recovering as planned
Expectation is it might take up to 2 years
Currently at month 8

After our initial hurdles on to the issue

Yep cataract, as expected.
Quite Pleased it's not something more sinister, bad as it is .

Suggestion. Is let eye fully recover before deciding on another operation on it

So That's what I'm thinking of doing,, at the moment..

See ya All tomorrow.
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Oh my goodness, so much to contend with there.

The Eye doctor should most certainly have had a better attitude.

A bit like my Doctor Who (I said e y e doctor but grammar or spellcheck always changes it to Doctor Who) who was shouting at me before Christmas because I couldn't understand what he was saying and he was treating me like I was an idiot person and insulted me with saying before he stormed off 'that was so simple, to answer' . I saw that bit what he said, but not before Biway was shouting at me because I couldn't live breathing so I've no idea what he took that I said I was some stupid idiot. Hence me doing that complain of concern about him....

There's a twist to this. As I came out of the operating theatre and they wheeled me into the corridors, I couldn't get off the trolley. I had muscle spasms and cramps all the way through the eye operation.. they did say before if I wanted them to stop they would stop but I wanted nothing interfering with the operation. Have you ever tried holding a cramp, when you totally have to do the cramp dance? And enduring an operation that you are awake in, where you must not move. Unless they completed the operation. There and then I would never have gone back, couldn't have gone through all that again the lead up to it.. the nurses are trying to get me off the trolley I cannot move an inch. They tried rubbing my body, rubbing my back and they said they would have to go and get someone to help me off fhe trolley. I was completely locked into these cramps to keep still. The poor nurse who held my hand throughout the it was quite a long procedure... I think I was in theatre about 40 minutes. ...I looked at the clock at entering and leaving, tried to get her hand out of mine several times during the procedure.. I was gripping it so tight, I had turned my body into stone to get through this and then somebody else else's hand popped into mine and I gripped her hand so tight as well... so I'm trying to get off the trolley and can't and I turn my head a little to the side, and on the other side of the corridor I see the eye doctor who was really horrible to me about my deafness. He was in hospital scrubs. And he was actually looking at me very very concerned I thought. I like to think he realised he had misjudged me that day when he was shouting at me.

Eventually I got off the trolley, I couldn't move or walk because I was still locked into the cramps. I managed to put my back against the wall and there was a rail there and my waist I was rubbing up and down with the rail and trying to get my shoulders pushed onto the wall. Finally, I could walk and there was a nurse either side of me just to be sure. And I noticed that eye doctor who had been really horrible and insulting about my deafness was still watching me with eyes of Concern and a face of Concern.... I think he got a lesson in humility that day... he wasn't important to me anymore...

I wouldn't call it a bad experience with the cramps in the theatre. It seem bad enough at the time, it is nothing to be scared , and the time just goes by.

In my experience childbirth was the worst option than this experience.

Hugs for everything for you what you are going through with all your different appointments and not being quite sure what the next one will bring. .. you are doing brilliantly @jjraak
 
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JohnEGreen said:
Glad all went well after my cataract operation I had to wear an eye hard at night for a few weeks nt sure if it will be same for you when will that eye patch be removed will some one have to take it off for you or can you remove it yourself after a set time.
Sorry to be so nosey.
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No, you are not being nosy @JohnEGreen
I have to put the eyepatch on at night and I have to be the one to take it off in the morning. They only gave me some thin micro tape. And that did not hold the solid eye patch on properly. I have ordered some more secure micro tape which is wider. That'll be delivered tomorrow. I wouldn't have minded reading some more stuff about the operation that other people said to give me some ideas what maybe to order in advance.

It is not too easy getting that patch on when you have arthritis in your arms and hands and trying to take it on I'm trying to look in the mirror...

I have so many eyedrops to take it is unbelievable and I will keep the eyepatch on at night until I have finished the last eyedrop which will be seven weeks. I am going to be overcautious for the simple reason what I'm seeing so far with this new cataract is exceeding all my expectations and I want nothing to jeopardise it.
 
Peanut234 said:
Glad it went well for you:)
I hope the drops to follow are not too laborious or painful, and that you manage to sleep well with the hard thing and tape stuck to your face.

Love the artwork. The oil fin heater is very effective. I will never look at them in quite the same way again!
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Hi!
Thank you...
The drops are a nightmare....
I have my own two different eyedrops, which I have to continue taking as well as a new ones ... each one is four times a day and these are my own prescribed eyedrops from the specialist.
Then I have four bottles of eyedrops for the cataract eye.
All different times a day.
One of them is every two hours during all my waking hours. With the amount of hours, I am awake from morning to night, it's usually at least 18 hours. So that is about nine times a day for that particular one the others are three times a day or four times a day.
So that is six lots of eyedrops I take.
I looked at my son and they said I can't do it. I am gonna get totally mixed up. I need a spreadsheet.. son uses spreadsheets but he has his own software. So he could not help me with Google sheets to make one on my phone it was too fiddly and awkward he said.
Son WhatsApps my daughter in Australia, and she designs a spreadsheet for me in google sheets. She came up with several different designs. I found difficulty reading them., then my son change the screen to a black screen instead of the white screen and the black screen I can see sheets in all the little boxes I had to take.

Without the spreadsheet, I could not keep track or place of this.

Thank you for the creative compliment, I like my little oil finned radiator!
 
I am due for another batch of four different eyedrops in the three quarters of an hour, and I need to get to the shops to get a couple of things. I would not like to go out driving after I've had that batch, although they don't seem to blur my eyes or anything.

I need some of those eye makeup pads, because I nearly accidentally put the eye drop in the wrong eye earlier. I have decided to tape over the eye. That is not having the eye drop at each session, and then I cannot make a mistake but I need the eye pads for that so back in a bit...

I can see what driving is like round here. Did do some driving yesterday, nurse said I could drive from Friday 24 hours after cataract operation. I have far much better eyesight than I had before, I can read the number plates no problem. Everything is so clear..... I do have a few interesting observations which I will talk about in a bit. I do think people or doctors rather or specialist nurses could tell you a little bit more than what they do about the changes that can happen.
 
@gennepher I do sympathise I did find taping the eye guard in place quite difficult but luckily Judith was able to help often and yes the eye drops can be a bind.
But you know what they say time flies and soon you will be able to discard the eye guard and discontinue the drops and see the world with crystal clear clarity.
 
Good nearly afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen.

Blood sugars this morning were 5.8

For our regular readers, posters and painters it will be no surprise that me, me’s and myself like decent koffy, which I call bowel cleansing koffy. This morning I ground some koffy beans for the first time ever and made a decent koffy. It was well worth the faffing around with the grinding and I’m looking forward to trying other types of beans and hopefully the stock of beans will last longer before going stale as the ground koffy does.
The downside is Mrs J insists that I wash all the equipment up after I have made the koffy.
The up side is I shall have soft hands from all the washing up, oh and a good mug of koffy. We won’t mention the bowel cleansing!

Have a good day and stay dry if possible. I must depart now.
 
Thank you all for the kind words yesterday. I'm currently sat in Tenpin Southampton minding a handbag, coats and MIL while the others are doing Karaoke. Shame as it is really my thing. Guess I'll just have to put up with the Sky sports screens everywhere. Tough gig but them's the breaks sometimes.
 
JohnEGreen said:
@gennepher I do sympathise I did find taping the eye guard in place quite difficult but luckily Judith was able to help often and yes the eye drops can be a bind.
But you know what they say time flies and soon you will be able to discard the eye guard and discontinue the drops and see the world with crystal clear clarity.
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Thanks @JohnEGreen
I have the cotton wool pads now. And I am keeping them over the good eye when I put my eyedrops in that makes it so much easier and I know I cannot make a mistake now..... and so by mid April bye-bye eyedrops and bye-bye this eyepatch....
 
My creative for today....
I was observing all the colours and shapes during the entire operation, that I could see with the eye that was having the cataract removed and a new one put in. I found it very interesting. And it was a distraction from all the cramps I was getting in the rest of my body, I think because I never normally lie down completely flat. So I focused my intensity on the colours and shapes in my eye as the operation progressed.


In the beginning, after the anaesthetic, and the injection, it was an interesting view of a long needle coming into the eye, it did not hurt at all and strangely was not scary, there were colours and shapes and it was as if it was on a white background and the colours on the white background were pale blue and pale yellow in like a mottled sort of a pattern. Water was being poured on my eye and I kept hearing the surgeon saying water water and then more water more urgently. And this went on for the whole of the operation. I am assuming that possibly this first bit which is prior to her cutting whatever she had to do to get the bits of the old cataract out. Then I saw a dark black circle with the dots in it which took up the whole of the circle. Two dots were viridian green, and one dot was like an alizarin crimson red. At exactly the same time as I saw that there was a small abstract-like black outlined jagged segment next to it which was thin black lines which made like perfect squares and the background was white on that little abstract bit. It was a small part of the whole picture I could see in the eye and that shape was sharp jagged on the outside and that sharp jagged shape kept changing a bit. I am assuming that was when the surgeon was pulling out the dead bits of cataract or whatever happens at that stage. The mottled blue colour and the yellow colour intensified every time she was saying more water more water, more water, and those two colours were always there throughout the whole of the operation. The bubbles of water at the bottom of the painting were like as though they were against a sheet of glass. Sometimes that dark black circle with a red and green circles within it disappeared at the beginning and then came back again, disappeared a bit and then came back again. And then there were more black circles. And they all had these red and green smaller circles in them, But there were also more of the red and green circles within this black circle by now. At various points the black lines in this white jagged abstract bit, they always had perfect squares on a white background. Then they started happening less. And then these black line squares faded away. And then there was one large dark black circle with a lot of small, red and green circles within it. Then that went into a solid dark circle. Then that faded away and I am left with this mottled pale blue and mottled pale yellow on the white background. And then my eye was covered with gauze at that point. And so that was operation over.

I did this creative within a variety of apps on my iPad. I think I would normally do it as an acrylic painting because to get the intensity of colour, and to get much more detail...

It is a bit too early to do more detailed painting yet because this caused a bit of eye strain on my new cataract eye...

I hope you had a good day.

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My family member who had a cataract done was supplied a sort of 'sticker chart' by the specialist with the schedule and tick boxes on it for the drops. A bit confronting to see all the doses laid out, but very useful. It sounds like you are on to it and organised:)
 
Peanut234 said:
My family member who had a cataract done was supplied a sort of 'sticker chart' by the specialist with the schedule and tick boxes on it for the drops. A bit confronting to see all the doses laid out, but very useful. It sounds like you are on to it and organised:)
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I think that is a really good idea for specialist to provide a schedule for taking the eyedrops, because at this point of time you can't see properly to sort out something yourself @Peanut234
 
gennepher said:
My creative for today....
I was observing all the colours and shapes during the entire operation, that I could see with the eye that was having the cataract removed and a new one put in. I found it very interesting. And it was a distraction from all the cramps I was getting in the rest of my body, I think because I never normally lie down completely flat. So I focused my intensity on the colours and shapes in my eye as the operation progressed.


In the beginning, after the anaesthetic, and the injection, it was an interesting view of a long needle coming into the eye, it did not hurt at all and strangely was not scary, there were colours and shapes and it was as if it was on a white background and the colours on the white background were pale blue and pale yellow in like a mottled sort of a pattern. Water was being poured on my eye and I kept hearing the surgeon saying water water and then more water more urgently. And this went on for the whole of the operation. I am assuming that possibly this first bit which is prior to her cutting whatever she had to do to get the bits of the old cataract out. Then I saw a dark black circle with the dots in it which took up the whole of the circle. Two dots were viridian green, and one dot was like an alizarin crimson red. At exactly the same time as I saw that there was a small abstract-like black outlined jagged segment next to it which was thin black lines which made like perfect squares and the background was white on that little abstract bit. It was a small part of the whole picture I could see in the eye and that shape was sharp jagged on the outside and that sharp jagged shape kept changing a bit. I am assuming that was when the surgeon was pulling out the dead bits of cataract or whatever happens at that stage. The mottled blue colour and the yellow colour intensified every time she was saying more water more water, more water, and those two colours were always there throughout the whole of the operation. The bubbles of water at the bottom of the painting were like as though they were against a sheet of glass. Sometimes that dark black circle with a red and green circles within it disappeared at the beginning and then came back again, disappeared a bit and then came back again. And then there were more black circles. And they all had these red and green smaller circles in them, But there were also more of the red and green circles within this black circle by now. At various points the black lines in this white jagged abstract bit, they always had perfect squares on a white background. Then they started happening less. And then these black line squares faded away. And then there was one large dark black circle with a lot of small, red and green circles within it. Then that went into a solid dark circle. Then that faded away and I am left with this mottled pale blue and mottled pale yellow on the white background. And then my eye was covered with gauze at that point. And so that was operation over.

I did this creative within a variety of apps on my iPad. I think I would normally do it as an acrylic painting because to get the intensity of colour, and to get much more detail...

It is a bit too early to do more detailed painting yet because this caused a bit of eye strain on my new cataract eye...

I hope you had a good day.

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My doctorate was based upon vision and perception so this is fascinating and beautifully illustrated. The three types of cone cells in our eyes (S, (blue) M (green) and L (red)) are located in the macular region of the eye. With only these three colours our brains can construct several million different colours. S cone only activation gives blue. If the M and L cones are activated we get yellow, so there was lots of switching it seems and your brain was having a field day. I once had drug called curare put into my eyes - a poison and muscle relaxant - it stops your eyes wobbling about - result - with no movement to compare the frequencies bouncing into our eyes from seen objects, all the colour drains out and everything goes white. Don’t try this at home!
 
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Good morning everyone on an already laughter filled start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. No idea what my blood sugars were when I got up - far too busy in a new role “front of house”, organising the setting of a table and then describing each item on the menu to a pair of gourmonds; Cherios, Weetabix, porridge, toast etc. The twins are early risers Their older sister, like Mrs Miggins, not so much. I think second sitting may be order of the day.
Art bit - a bird not in the hand but not in the bush either.
No idea what we will be up to today. Yesterday was digging up the beach despite the cold and returning home with buckets full of shells, pebbles, crab claws and other detritus. There has been talk of exploring the woods though after I mentioned the sighting of garlic leaves.
I hope that your day moves forwards gently for you. I am mindful of what Marcus Aurelius said about not making things more difficult than they are, it’s just one moment at a time; “So then, remember in life that your duties are the sum of individual acts. Pay attention to each of these as you do your duty … just methodically complete your task.” - Meditations, 6.26”
Now, where is that can of koffy?
 

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