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[two_bit_score]

Yep, Dennis, I've had a number of surgeries in my life, but this was sure different. A nurse had me get on a roll around bed without getting undressed except to take off my shoes. Then she just unbuttoned the top 3 bottons on my shirt to stick 3 wires to my chest and put on a hospital gown over my clothes. She put the blood pressure cuff on my left arm and an IV in my right hand. I hadn't seen one of the beds or gurneys quite like this one. Instead of just rectangular, it had a very comfortable headrest up above what would be the end of the gurney. Another young lady came and said she'd be my anesthesiologist, couldn't put me to sleep because I needed to be able to hear and respond to the doctor, but that she'd be giving me a sedative to help me relax and they'd deaden the eye. If she gave me any sedative, I never knew it, never felt it, never saw it, and never needed it

Two or three times the doctor told me to be very still now, which I was already doing, so maybe it was some critical step he was taking. To start with, he had told me to look straight ahead at the light right over my face, and once he told me to look towards him. That was simple enough although all I could actually see was flashing lights of different colors and shapes, and pretty frequently I could see a small nozzle come from the other side and feel whatever liquid it poured in my eye. They had taped my head to the headrest so I couldn't turn my head, but it was quite comfortable.

They wanted me to stay in the recovery room for 30 minutes, although I saw no need to myself; no drowsiness, dizziness, etc. But that was OK because the nurse brought me a really good cup of coffee.

Vision was pretty blurry for quite awhile yesterday, but no problems.

Glad to hear a great report like that from you! Hope it all goes well and you are 100% soon. It doesn't seem to have affected your ability to type on the Internet.

 

[jinman]

It doesn't seem to have affected your ability to type on the Internet.

Didn't you know that Bird just dictates and has his secretary do all his typing?:laughing:

Glad you are doing okay Bird. I can tell you that better vision is a 2-edged sword. It makes you see better, but it doesn't make you look any better in the mirror.

 

[Bird]

Didn't you know that Bird just dictates and has his secretary do all his typing?:laughing:

Glad you are doing okay Bird. I can tell you that better vision is a 2-edged sword. It makes you see better, but it doesn't make you look any better in the mirror.

Dang, Jim, you had to go and burst my bubble. I was hoping I'd look better in the mirror. I know I couldn't look much worse.

 

[two_bit_score]

Dang, Jim, you had to go and burst my bubble. I was hoping I'd look better in the mirror. I know I couldn't look much worse.

How does the secretary look?:laughing:

 

[Bird]

How does the secretary look?:laughing:

Unfortunately, Jim was wrong that time. My wife does a lot of things well, but she doesn't type and won't let me have another secretary.:laughing:

 

[jonyyuma]

Bird<I have cataract surgery in both eyes, by two different firms. I bet you need to follow the eye drops pretty close to dr.s orders. Both times the drops were steriods, first time the nurse messed me up and my eye paid me back with jerking around. Dr. chewed me out and had an extra week of drops to stabilize it. Since then I had lazer correction on one to clear a hole in the lens capsule.My vision came back to 20/20 and I was so happy..

 

[jonyyuma]

IE:Those Implant cards are for the tiny Lens that they put in. It is in case of a medical recall. they inscribe each lens with a lazer...

 

[Bird]

Bird<I have cataract surgery in both eyes, by two different firms. I bet you need to follow the eye drops pretty close to dr.s orders. Both times the drops were steriods, first time the nurse messed me up and my eye paid me back with jerking around. Dr. chewed me out and had an extra week of drops to stabilize it. Since then I had lazer correction on one to clear a hole in the lens capsule.My vision came back to 20/20 and I was so happy..

Glad yours turned out well. Starting Monday, they had me using one drop once a day of Bromday, which they gave me, and one drop 4 times a day of Vigamox, which cost $20 with the prescription they gave me. This morning the doctor's (assistant?) first did a little exam and gave me a "goodie bag" with sunglasses, another plastic shield and tape to tape over the eye at night to be sure I don't rub it, and gave me an instruction sheet to continue the Vigamox for 7 days or until it runs out (whichever comes first), to continue the Bromday one drop a day for 30 days, and gave me Omnipred to use one drop 4 times a day for 30 days. But then the doctor said the pressure in the eye was just a little high and told me, "Be real still. I'm going to stick a needle in the incision to drain some fluid." I told him, "That doesn't sound like any fun at all", and he said, "It won't hurt" and it didn't. But then he gave me a bottle of Alphagan to use one drop 4 times a day in addition to the other 3. I'm supposed to keep the eye closed for one minute after applying an eye drop, and allow at least 5 minutes between the different ones.

Now I don't know how others do it, but I had to set up a spreadsheet on this computer to track which one I used when.:laughing: And I hope that's not enough eye drops to float the eyeball right out of the socket.:laughing:

 

[Western]

Bird, that almost sounds "fun" but surely relaxing. I don't understand the part about removing your shoes, when they are working on the other end and allow you to stay dressed, must be a TSA thing:laughing:

 

[Bird]

Bird, that almost sounds "fun" but surely relaxing. I don't understand the part about removing your shoes, when they are working on the other end and allow you to stay dressed, must be a TSA thing:laughing:

:laughing:I didn't think about that, Dennis.:laughing:

 

[jinman]

And I hope that's not enough eye drops to float the eyeball right out of the socket.:laughing:

Normally, the eyeball stays intact, but all the money floats out of your wallet.:shocked:

 

[Western]

While I was staying in East Texas this week, I had to watch the Shreveport news, I guess the drought has hit them equally hard. They where talking about all the rural folks who's water wells have gone dry. They also showed a subdivision (sorta) that lost their well and petitioned the city to be hooked up to the city water supply, part of the agreement was they new homes would have to pay twice the amount for the water, which I thought was odd.

 

[Bird]

While I was staying in East Texas this week, I had to watch the Shreveport news, I guess the drought has hit them equally hard. They where talking about all the rural folks who's water wells have gone dry. They also showed a subdivision (sorta) that lost their well and petitioned the city to be hooked up to the city water supply, part of the agreement was they new homes would have to pay twice the amount for the water, which I thought was odd.

Dennis, I reckon city water would be a little different, but I know the rural co-op water companies have lots of different ways of deciding how much to charge new customers. When I was on the board of directors of our water co-op, we had one board member who wanted to make the cost high enough to discourage any additional water company customers, and I think some have done that.:laughing: What I proposed and was eventually adopted was to look at our total assets divided by the number of members to give us the value per member. New additions had to pay that same amount if we already had a water main going by their property. If additional water main had to be installed, a new member had to pay the actual cost of that.

 

[Western]

Bird, that makes sense. I've also seen that with other utilities while living in Colorado for a spell, running electric in the mountains can get pretty darn expensive.

I figure the wells around Shreveport may be shallow , don't know, but their water table may be vastly differant than ours.

 

[jswitzer]

The weather all over has been ridiculous! At one time, we are in such a drought, I am pumping water from all over just to keep things growing remotely, and then next, we are swimming trying to stay afloat due to all the rain! The heat and dry air is so hard to deal with sometimes.

 

[two_bit_score]

The weather all over has been ridiculous! At one time, we are in such a drought, I am pumping water from all over just to keep things growing remotely, and then next, we are swimming trying to stay afloat due to all the rain! The heat and dry air is so hard to deal with sometimes.

Where are you?

 

[Bird]

Hope everyone enjoyed the cold front that came through last night. It brought me about another 0.47" of rain and our electric power was only off just over an hour.

Of course trees touching power lines is the frequently given reason for power outages and this week there's an Oncor contracted crew in our neighborhood trimming trees. I actually wanted them to trim my trees, but nope, they didn't. They did go next door, and one guy got up in a tree and spent about 45 minutes trimming limbs, while 4 more of the crew stood in the shade and watched. I guess the 4 on the ground were there to pick up the one worker if he should fall out of the tree.:laughing: But I think a couple of them did help drag the limbs out to their truck later.

 

[jinman]

6/10" of rain here and power dropped two times for just an instant. Just long enough to set all our clocks to blinking and send the DishNet receiver into withdrawal contortions.

On Oncor trimming around power lines. . . We have a quarter-mile section of our road near Hwy 287 that gets Oncor power instead of Wise Coop. Those Oncor lines have trees growing right up around the wires and 8' to 10' above. I don't see how the lines don't get ripped down in just minor wind storms. I pointed that out to my wife as we were going shopping yesterday. With the winds this front brought, I'm sure the lines are being rubbed by the limbs. Even if there is not physical damage, in a storm there is bound to be a few shorts created by wet limbs.:confused2:

 

[Western]

A little over .30 here and no power outages:thumbsup:

The wind is a PITA, I can take and enjoy the cool air, but could do without 30 mph breeze. What is amazing to me about the Oak trees I have is the amount of acorns falling, small though this year, I am still surprised that we even have any. Also amazing is the spurt of growth in the native vegetation since the 5" rain a week ago. I guess the grasses are going to give it one last "go" since they have some moisture.

At least now since it's cooler, I can think about firewood without as much discomfort as it was a month ago

 

[Bird]

Here it is a beautiful, clear, sunny day, but windy . . . and our electricity went off at 11:30 a.m. I called Oncor's automated outage reporting number at 11:35 a.m. and the recording said a work order had been issued, crews were working to restore power as quickly as possible, and it's estimated to be restored by 2 p.m. Confirmation number is 91. The power came back on at 11:40 a.m. (just off 10 minutes this time).:laughing: The recording always says the same thing and I always get the same confirmation number; only the estimated time of restoration is different at different times.:laughing: