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[Ringel05]

Still keeping busy and dealing with age related issues on top of that. Just over a week ago I started seeing light flashes in the corner of my left eye at night then noticed what they call 'floaters' (dark nebulous strands) in the same corner during the day. Contacted the VA for an Opthalmology consult and a couple of hours later one of the call nurses contacted me, asked my symptoms then instructed me to get to the VA ER asap, thought I might have had a mini stroke. I knew it wasn't a TIA but she planted the bug in my brain so latter we went to the ER and checked in. Well, being a Monday it was packed so after waiting in a treatment room for an hour I finally told the nurse I knew it wasn't a TIA and that I was wasting their time and the doc simply put me in for a consult. The next morning Opthalmology called and I was seen that afternoon, confirmed there was no TIA just age related, slight detachment of the jelly-like “vitreous” from the retina (not a retinal tear or complete detachment).
Don't know if I mentioned it but they finally did a MRI on my right shoulder (the one I landed on in my driveway) and it's definitely messed up, have an Ortho consult later this month.
Other than that the wife started her new job on Monday, only part time (3 days a week) but with a very good hourly rate that even with only 3 days per week will bring in more a month than I do on disability literally doubling our income.
My projects are what's keeping me busy, making more of those wrist cuffs I posted a while back (for sale), stripping down pallets for the wood, making another vest plus some leather work including a replacement for my belt that's starting to come apart. On top of that there's laundry, dishes and the general never ending cleaning as well as the wife's to do list.......

 

[Foxfyre]

Still keeping busy and dealing with age related issues on top of that. Just over a week ago I started seeing light flashes in the corner of my left eye at night then noticed what they call 'floaters' (dark nebulous strands) in the same corner during the day. Contacted the VA for an Opthalmology consult and a couple of hours later one of the call nurses contacted me, asked my symptoms then instructed me to get to the VA ER asap, thought I might have had a mini stroke. I knew it wasn't a TIA but she planted the bug in my brain so latter we went to the ER and checked in. Well, being a Monday it was packed so after waiting in a treatment room for an hour I finally told the nurse I knew it wasn't a TIA and that I was wasting their time and the doc simply put me in for a consult. The next morning Opthalmology called and I was seen that afternoon, confirmed there was no TIA just age related, slight detachment of the jelly-like “vitreous” from the retina (not a retinal tear or complete detachment).
Don't know if I mentioned it but they finally did a MRI on my right shoulder (the one I landed on in my driveway) and it's definitely messed up, have an Ortho consult later this month.
Other than that the wife started her new job on Monday, only part time (3 days a week) but with a very good hourly rate that even with only 3 days per week will bring in more a month than I do on disability literally doubling our income.
My projects are what's keeping me busy, making more of those wrist cuffs I posted a while back (for sale), stripping down pallets for the wood, making another vest plus some leather work including a replacement for my belt that's starting to come apart. On top of that there's laundry, dishes and the general never ending cleaning as well as the wife's to do list.......

You are definitely on the list for wellness issues as well as the wife's employment situation in your long transitional process. But if the job produces sufficient income for the two of you, I would prefer a 3-day work week to a full time job unless there are less attractive factors related to that.

Speaking of age related issues. . .

Some months ago the vision in my right eye went to hell and that scared me a lot. My ophthalmologist looked at it and immediately sent me to their retina specialist center where I was diagnosed with what they said was an occlusion or swollen blood vessel behind my eye though some initial bleeding had apparently stopped. So followed three eye injections spaced over the next three months which cleared it up entirely--the vision in that eye returned to normal. Just a bit of swelling recurred a month ago so I had one more injection that the doctor thought would probably do it. I'll have to have it checked periodically but the doctors tell me they are really encouraged at the prognosis. So we'll see.

 

[Dajjal]

Still keeping busy and dealing with age related issues on top of that. Just over a week ago I started seeing light flashes in the corner of my left eye at night then noticed what they call 'floaters' (dark nebulous strands) in the same corner during the day. Contacted the VA for an Opthalmology consult and a couple of hours later one of the call nurses contacted me, asked my symptoms then instructed me to get to the VA ER asap, thought I might have had a mini stroke. I knew it wasn't a TIA but she planted the bug in my brain so latter we went to the ER and checked in. Well, being a Monday it was packed so after waiting in a treatment room for an hour I finally told the nurse I knew it wasn't a TIA and that I was wasting their time and the doc simply put me in for a consult. The next morning Opthalmology called and I was seen that afternoon, confirmed there was no TIA just age related, slight detachment of the jelly-like “vitreous” from the retina (not a retinal tear or complete detachment).
Don't know if I mentioned it but they finally did a MRI on my right shoulder (the one I landed on in my driveway) and it's definitely messed up, have an Ortho consult later this month.
Other than that the wife started her new job on Monday, only part time (3 days a week) but with a very good hourly rate that even with only 3 days per week will bring in more a month than I do on disability literally doubling our income.
My projects are what's keeping me busy, making more of those wrist cuffs I posted a while back (for sale), stripping down pallets for the wood, making another vest plus some leather work including a replacement for my belt that's starting to come apart. On top of that there's laundry, dishes and the general never ending cleaning as well as the wife's to do list.......

You are definitely on the list for wellness issues as well as the wife's employment situation in your long transitional process. But if the job produces sufficient income for the two of you, I would prefer a 3-day work week to a full time job unless there are less attractive factors related to that.

Speaking of age related issues. . .

Some months ago the vision in my right eye went to hell and that scared me a lot. My ophthalmologist looked at it immediately sent me to their retina specialist center where I was diagnoses with what they said was an occlusion or swollen blood vessel behind my eye though some initial bleeding had apparently stopped. So followed three eye injections spaced over the next three months which cleared it up entirely--the vision in that eye returned to normal. Just a bit of swelling recurred a month ago so I had one more injection that the doctor thought would probably do it. I'll have to have it checked periodically but the doctors tell me they are really encouraged at the prognosis. So we'll see.

Yea, age related stuff is a bitch. My mother said to me before she died, "Getting old is no fun".
She had eye problems, and had to have a replacement knee and hip, among other things.

I went blind in one eye a few years ago, and it was due to the chicken pox virus rearing its ugly head. Apparently the virus sleeps in your spine until you are run down then it makes an appearance and causes problems. Fortunately antibiotic eye drops cured me. But for some years now I have had wavy lines in my eyes. It lasts for about twenty minutes and occurs every couple of weeks.

I had a letter through the door today about going to the opticians for a check up and this time I think I will go.

 

[Foxfyre]

Still keeping busy and dealing with age related issues on top of that. Just over a week ago I started seeing light flashes in the corner of my left eye at night then noticed what they call 'floaters' (dark nebulous strands) in the same corner during the day. Contacted the VA for an Opthalmology consult and a couple of hours later one of the call nurses contacted me, asked my symptoms then instructed me to get to the VA ER asap, thought I might have had a mini stroke. I knew it wasn't a TIA but she planted the bug in my brain so latter we went to the ER and checked in. Well, being a Monday it was packed so after waiting in a treatment room for an hour I finally told the nurse I knew it wasn't a TIA and that I was wasting their time and the doc simply put me in for a consult. The next morning Opthalmology called and I was seen that afternoon, confirmed there was no TIA just age related, slight detachment of the jelly-like “vitreous” from the retina (not a retinal tear or complete detachment).
Don't know if I mentioned it but they finally did a MRI on my right shoulder (the one I landed on in my driveway) and it's definitely messed up, have an Ortho consult later this month.
Other than that the wife started her new job on Monday, only part time (3 days a week) but with a very good hourly rate that even with only 3 days per week will bring in more a month than I do on disability literally doubling our income.
My projects are what's keeping me busy, making more of those wrist cuffs I posted a while back (for sale), stripping down pallets for the wood, making another vest plus some leather work including a replacement for my belt that's starting to come apart. On top of that there's laundry, dishes and the general never ending cleaning as well as the wife's to do list.......

You are definitely on the list for wellness issues as well as the wife's employment situation in your long transitional process. But if the job produces sufficient income for the two of you, I would prefer a 3-day work week to a full time job unless there are less attractive factors related to that.

Speaking of age related issues. . .

Some months ago the vision in my right eye went to hell and that scared me a lot. My ophthalmologist looked at it immediately sent me to their retina specialist center where I was diagnoses with what they said was an occlusion or swollen blood vessel behind my eye though some initial bleeding had apparently stopped. So followed three eye injections spaced over the next three months which cleared it up entirely--the vision in that eye returned to normal. Just a bit of swelling recurred a month ago so I had one more injection that the doctor thought would probably do it. I'll have to have it checked periodically but the doctors tell me they are really encouraged at the prognosis. So we'll see.

Yea, age related stuff is a bitch. My mother said to me before she died, "Getting old is no fun".
She had eye problems, and had to have a replacement knee and hip, among other things.

I went blind in one eye a few years ago, and it was due to the chicken pox virus rearing its ugly head. Apparently the virus sleeps in your spine until you are run down then it makes an appearance and causes problems. Fortunately antibiotic eye drops cured me. But for some years now I have had wavy lines in my eyes. It lasts for about twenty minutes and occurs every couple of weeks.

I had a letter through the door today about going to the opticians for a check up and this time I think I will go.

I strongly recommend that.

 

[Ringel05]

Still keeping busy and dealing with age related issues on top of that. Just over a week ago I started seeing light flashes in the corner of my left eye at night then noticed what they call 'floaters' (dark nebulous strands) in the same corner during the day. Contacted the VA for an Opthalmology consult and a couple of hours later one of the call nurses contacted me, asked my symptoms then instructed me to get to the VA ER asap, thought I might have had a mini stroke. I knew it wasn't a TIA but she planted the bug in my brain so latter we went to the ER and checked in. Well, being a Monday it was packed so after waiting in a treatment room for an hour I finally told the nurse I knew it wasn't a TIA and that I was wasting their time and the doc simply put me in for a consult. The next morning Opthalmology called and I was seen that afternoon, confirmed there was no TIA just age related, slight detachment of the jelly-like “vitreous” from the retina (not a retinal tear or complete detachment).
Don't know if I mentioned it but they finally did a MRI on my right shoulder (the one I landed on in my driveway) and it's definitely messed up, have an Ortho consult later this month.
Other than that the wife started her new job on Monday, only part time (3 days a week) but with a very good hourly rate that even with only 3 days per week will bring in more a month than I do on disability literally doubling our income.
My projects are what's keeping me busy, making more of those wrist cuffs I posted a while back (for sale), stripping down pallets for the wood, making another vest plus some leather work including a replacement for my belt that's starting to come apart. On top of that there's laundry, dishes and the general never ending cleaning as well as the wife's to do list.......

You are definitely on the list for wellness issues as well as the wife's employment situation in your long transitional process. But if the job produces sufficient income for the two of you, I would prefer a 3-day work week to a full time job unless there are less attractive factors related to that.

Speaking of age related issues. . .

Some months ago the vision in my right eye went to hell and that scared me a lot. My ophthalmologist looked at it immediately sent me to their retina specialist center where I was diagnoses with what they said was an occlusion or swollen blood vessel behind my eye though some initial bleeding had apparently stopped. So followed three eye injections spaced over the next three months which cleared it up entirely--the vision in that eye returned to normal. Just a bit of swelling recurred a month ago so I had one more injection that the doctor thought would probably do it. I'll have to have it checked periodically but the doctors tell me they are really encouraged at the prognosis. So we'll see.

Yea, age related stuff is a bitch. My mother said to me before she died, "Getting old is no fun".
She had eye problems, and had to have a replacement knee and hip, among other things.

I went blind in one eye a few years ago, and it was due to the chicken pox virus rearing its ugly head. Apparently the virus sleeps in your spine until you are run down then it makes an appearance and causes problems. Fortunately antibiotic eye drops cured me. But for some years now I have had wavy lines in my eyes. It lasts for about twenty minutes and occurs every couple of weeks.

I had a letter through the door today about going to the opticians for a check up and this time I think I will go.

Definitely go, your eyes are nothing to play with unless you don't mind learning Braille out of necessity.

 

[Montrovant]

Still keeping busy and dealing with age related issues on top of that. Just over a week ago I started seeing light flashes in the corner of my left eye at night then noticed what they call 'floaters' (dark nebulous strands) in the same corner during the day. Contacted the VA for an Opthalmology consult and a couple of hours later one of the call nurses contacted me, asked my symptoms then instructed me to get to the VA ER asap, thought I might have had a mini stroke. I knew it wasn't a TIA but she planted the bug in my brain so latter we went to the ER and checked in. Well, being a Monday it was packed so after waiting in a treatment room for an hour I finally told the nurse I knew it wasn't a TIA and that I was wasting their time and the doc simply put me in for a consult. The next morning Opthalmology called and I was seen that afternoon, confirmed there was no TIA just age related, slight detachment of the jelly-like “vitreous” from the retina (not a retinal tear or complete detachment).
Don't know if I mentioned it but they finally did a MRI on my right shoulder (the one I landed on in my driveway) and it's definitely messed up, have an Ortho consult later this month.
Other than that the wife started her new job on Monday, only part time (3 days a week) but with a very good hourly rate that even with only 3 days per week will bring in more a month than I do on disability literally doubling our income.
My projects are what's keeping me busy, making more of those wrist cuffs I posted a while back (for sale), stripping down pallets for the wood, making another vest plus some leather work including a replacement for my belt that's starting to come apart. On top of that there's laundry, dishes and the general never ending cleaning as well as the wife's to do list.......

You are definitely on the list for wellness issues as well as the wife's employment situation in your long transitional process. But if the job produces sufficient income for the two of you, I would prefer a 3-day work week to a full time job unless there are less attractive factors related to that.

Speaking of age related issues. . .

Some months ago the vision in my right eye went to hell and that scared me a lot. My ophthalmologist looked at it and immediately sent me to their retina specialist center where I was diagnosed with what they said was an occlusion or swollen blood vessel behind my eye though some initial bleeding had apparently stopped. So followed three eye injections spaced over the next three months which cleared it up entirely--the vision in that eye returned to normal. Just a bit of swelling recurred a month ago so I had one more injection that the doctor thought would probably do it. I'll have to have it checked periodically but the doctors tell me they are really encouraged at the prognosis. So we'll see.

I'm actually about to start reading about coding for eye conditions.

 

[Ringel05]

Those of us who live in New Mexico are familiar with the ENDWI, (End DWI) program........ The first time I saw that on a billboard my first thought was, "what does New Mexico have against Wisconsin........."

 

[saveliberty]

The scandals run deep in Mr. Roger's Neighborhood!

Your resemblance to the queen is remarkable.

 

[saveliberty]

I'm actually about to start reading about coding for eye conditions.

O I C.

 

[saveliberty]

I loved sesame street and mister rogers both.

This message brought to you by the letter A and Speedy Delivery.

 

[Foxfyre]

Still keeping busy and dealing with age related issues on top of that. Just over a week ago I started seeing light flashes in the corner of my left eye at night then noticed what they call 'floaters' (dark nebulous strands) in the same corner during the day. Contacted the VA for an Opthalmology consult and a couple of hours later one of the call nurses contacted me, asked my symptoms then instructed me to get to the VA ER asap, thought I might have had a mini stroke. I knew it wasn't a TIA but she planted the bug in my brain so latter we went to the ER and checked in. Well, being a Monday it was packed so after waiting in a treatment room for an hour I finally told the nurse I knew it wasn't a TIA and that I was wasting their time and the doc simply put me in for a consult. The next morning Opthalmology called and I was seen that afternoon, confirmed there was no TIA just age related, slight detachment of the jelly-like “vitreous” from the retina (not a retinal tear or complete detachment).
Don't know if I mentioned it but they finally did a MRI on my right shoulder (the one I landed on in my driveway) and it's definitely messed up, have an Ortho consult later this month.
Other than that the wife started her new job on Monday, only part time (3 days a week) but with a very good hourly rate that even with only 3 days per week will bring in more a month than I do on disability literally doubling our income.
My projects are what's keeping me busy, making more of those wrist cuffs I posted a while back (for sale), stripping down pallets for the wood, making another vest plus some leather work including a replacement for my belt that's starting to come apart. On top of that there's laundry, dishes and the general never ending cleaning as well as the wife's to do list.......

You are definitely on the list for wellness issues as well as the wife's employment situation in your long transitional process. But if the job produces sufficient income for the two of you, I would prefer a 3-day work week to a full time job unless there are less attractive factors related to that.

Speaking of age related issues. . .

Some months ago the vision in my right eye went to hell and that scared me a lot. My ophthalmologist looked at it and immediately sent me to their retina specialist center where I was diagnosed with what they said was an occlusion or swollen blood vessel behind my eye though some initial bleeding had apparently stopped. So followed three eye injections spaced over the next three months which cleared it up entirely--the vision in that eye returned to normal. Just a bit of swelling recurred a month ago so I had one more injection that the doctor thought would probably do it. I'll have to have it checked periodically but the doctors tell me they are really encouraged at the prognosis. So we'll see.

I'm actually about to start reading about coding for eye conditions.

There is much about modern medicine that I hate, but much more for which I am grateful. I am grateful that many medical conditions that were once pretty much fatal can now be healed or corrected or stopped in their tracks. Just like there are many conditions of the eye that resulted in blindness that they can now prevent or make well.

I've often said I would love to return to the America of my childhood and youth, but only if I could take today's medical knowledge and skills with me.

And it is a bit humbling to think that probably in another 50 years or so, today's medicine will be considered primitive. I imagine having the ability to diagnose and heal as it is on the Starship Enterprise.

 

[Foxfyre]

Those of us who live in New Mexico are familiar with the ENDWI, (End DWI) program........ The first time I saw that on a billboard my first thought was, "what does New Mexico have against Wisconsin........."

I don't think they are there any more, but some years back just as you emerged from Tijeras Canyon eastbound, there was a large billboard by one of our local P.I. attorneys in huge letters "I SUE DRUNK DRIVERS"

And a couple or so hundred yards beyond that was another billboard by another P.I. attorney: "I DEFEND DWIs".

 

[Ridgerunner]

I went blind in one eye a few years ago, and it was due to the chicken pox virus rearing its ugly head. Apparently the virus sleeps in your spine until you are run down then it makes an appearance and causes problems. Fortunately antibiotic eye drops cured me. But for some years now I have had wavy lines in my eyes. It lasts for about twenty minutes and occurs every couple of weeks.

Pls remember and never forget Daj... In a blind kingdom, a one-eyed man is king...

 

[Ava]

Still keeping busy and dealing with age related issues on top of that. Just over a week ago I started seeing light flashes in the corner of my left eye at night then noticed what they call 'floaters' (dark nebulous strands) in the same corner during the day. Contacted the VA for an Opthalmology consult and a couple of hours later one of the call nurses contacted me, asked my symptoms then instructed me to get to the VA ER asap, thought I might have had a mini stroke. I knew it wasn't a TIA but she planted the bug in my brain so latter we went to the ER and checked in. Well, being a Monday it was packed so after waiting in a treatment room for an hour I finally told the nurse I knew it wasn't a TIA and that I was wasting their time and the doc simply put me in for a consult. The next morning Opthalmology called and I was seen that afternoon, confirmed there was no TIA just age related, slight detachment of the jelly-like “vitreous” from the retina (not a retinal tear or complete detachment).
Don't know if I mentioned it but they finally did a MRI on my right shoulder (the one I landed on in my driveway) and it's definitely messed up, have an Ortho consult later this month.
Other than that the wife started her new job on Monday, only part time (3 days a week) but with a very good hourly rate that even with only 3 days per week will bring in more a month than I do on disability literally doubling our income.
My projects are what's keeping me busy, making more of those wrist cuffs I posted a while back (for sale), stripping down pallets for the wood, making another vest plus some leather work including a replacement for my belt that's starting to come apart. On top of that there's laundry, dishes and the general never ending cleaning as well as the wife's to do list.......

You are definitely on the list for wellness issues as well as the wife's employment situation in your long transitional process. But if the job produces sufficient income for the two of you, I would prefer a 3-day work week to a full time job unless there are less attractive factors related to that.

Speaking of age related issues. . .

Some months ago the vision in my right eye went to hell and that scared me a lot. My ophthalmologist looked at it immediately sent me to their retina specialist center where I was diagnoses with what they said was an occlusion or swollen blood vessel behind my eye though some initial bleeding had apparently stopped. So followed three eye injections spaced over the next three months which cleared it up entirely--the vision in that eye returned to normal. Just a bit of swelling recurred a month ago so I had one more injection that the doctor thought would probably do it. I'll have to have it checked periodically but the doctors tell me they are really encouraged at the prognosis. So we'll see.

Yea, age related stuff is a bitch. My mother said to me before she died, "Getting old is no fun".
She had eye problems, and had to have a replacement knee and hip, among other things.

I went blind in one eye a few years ago, and it was due to the chicken pox virus rearing its ugly head. Apparently the virus sleeps in your spine until you are run down then it makes an appearance and causes problems. Fortunately antibiotic eye drops cured me. But for some years now I have had wavy lines in my eyes. It lasts for about twenty minutes and occurs every couple of weeks.

I had a letter through the door today about going to the opticians for a check up and this time I think I will go.

You have always been precious to me, Dajjal.

 

[Montrovant]

Still keeping busy and dealing with age related issues on top of that. Just over a week ago I started seeing light flashes in the corner of my left eye at night then noticed what they call 'floaters' (dark nebulous strands) in the same corner during the day. Contacted the VA for an Opthalmology consult and a couple of hours later one of the call nurses contacted me, asked my symptoms then instructed me to get to the VA ER asap, thought I might have had a mini stroke. I knew it wasn't a TIA but she planted the bug in my brain so latter we went to the ER and checked in. Well, being a Monday it was packed so after waiting in a treatment room for an hour I finally told the nurse I knew it wasn't a TIA and that I was wasting their time and the doc simply put me in for a consult. The next morning Opthalmology called and I was seen that afternoon, confirmed there was no TIA just age related, slight detachment of the jelly-like “vitreous” from the retina (not a retinal tear or complete detachment).
Don't know if I mentioned it but they finally did a MRI on my right shoulder (the one I landed on in my driveway) and it's definitely messed up, have an Ortho consult later this month.
Other than that the wife started her new job on Monday, only part time (3 days a week) but with a very good hourly rate that even with only 3 days per week will bring in more a month than I do on disability literally doubling our income.
My projects are what's keeping me busy, making more of those wrist cuffs I posted a while back (for sale), stripping down pallets for the wood, making another vest plus some leather work including a replacement for my belt that's starting to come apart. On top of that there's laundry, dishes and the general never ending cleaning as well as the wife's to do list.......

You are definitely on the list for wellness issues as well as the wife's employment situation in your long transitional process. But if the job produces sufficient income for the two of you, I would prefer a 3-day work week to a full time job unless there are less attractive factors related to that.

Speaking of age related issues. . .

Some months ago the vision in my right eye went to hell and that scared me a lot. My ophthalmologist looked at it and immediately sent me to their retina specialist center where I was diagnosed with what they said was an occlusion or swollen blood vessel behind my eye though some initial bleeding had apparently stopped. So followed three eye injections spaced over the next three months which cleared it up entirely--the vision in that eye returned to normal. Just a bit of swelling recurred a month ago so I had one more injection that the doctor thought would probably do it. I'll have to have it checked periodically but the doctors tell me they are really encouraged at the prognosis. So we'll see.

I'm actually about to start reading about coding for eye conditions.

There is much about modern medicine that I hate, but much more for which I am grateful. I am grateful that many medical conditions that were once pretty much fatal can now be healed or corrected or stopped in their tracks. Just like there are many conditions of the eye that resulted in blindness that they can now prevent or make well.

I've often said I would love to return to the America of my childhood and youth, but only if I could take today's medical knowledge and skills with me.

And it is a bit humbling to think that probably in another 50 years or so, today's medicine will be considered primitive. I imagine having the ability to diagnose and heal as it is on the Starship Enterprise.

Before I got to the end, I was thinking that I won't be satisfied until we reach Star Trek levels of medical technology.

 

[Ringel05]

Still keeping busy and dealing with age related issues on top of that. Just over a week ago I started seeing light flashes in the corner of my left eye at night then noticed what they call 'floaters' (dark nebulous strands) in the same corner during the day. Contacted the VA for an Opthalmology consult and a couple of hours later one of the call nurses contacted me, asked my symptoms then instructed me to get to the VA ER asap, thought I might have had a mini stroke. I knew it wasn't a TIA but she planted the bug in my brain so latter we went to the ER and checked in. Well, being a Monday it was packed so after waiting in a treatment room for an hour I finally told the nurse I knew it wasn't a TIA and that I was wasting their time and the doc simply put me in for a consult. The next morning Opthalmology called and I was seen that afternoon, confirmed there was no TIA just age related, slight detachment of the jelly-like “vitreous” from the retina (not a retinal tear or complete detachment).
Don't know if I mentioned it but they finally did a MRI on my right shoulder (the one I landed on in my driveway) and it's definitely messed up, have an Ortho consult later this month.
Other than that the wife started her new job on Monday, only part time (3 days a week) but with a very good hourly rate that even with only 3 days per week will bring in more a month than I do on disability literally doubling our income.
My projects are what's keeping me busy, making more of those wrist cuffs I posted a while back (for sale), stripping down pallets for the wood, making another vest plus some leather work including a replacement for my belt that's starting to come apart. On top of that there's laundry, dishes and the general never ending cleaning as well as the wife's to do list.......

You are definitely on the list for wellness issues as well as the wife's employment situation in your long transitional process. But if the job produces sufficient income for the two of you, I would prefer a 3-day work week to a full time job unless there are less attractive factors related to that.

Speaking of age related issues. . .

Some months ago the vision in my right eye went to hell and that scared me a lot. My ophthalmologist looked at it and immediately sent me to their retina specialist center where I was diagnosed with what they said was an occlusion or swollen blood vessel behind my eye though some initial bleeding had apparently stopped. So followed three eye injections spaced over the next three months which cleared it up entirely--the vision in that eye returned to normal. Just a bit of swelling recurred a month ago so I had one more injection that the doctor thought would probably do it. I'll have to have it checked periodically but the doctors tell me they are really encouraged at the prognosis. So we'll see.

I'm actually about to start reading about coding for eye conditions.

There is much about modern medicine that I hate, but much more for which I am grateful. I am grateful that many medical conditions that were once pretty much fatal can now be healed or corrected or stopped in their tracks. Just like there are many conditions of the eye that resulted in blindness that they can now prevent or make well.

I've often said I would love to return to the America of my childhood and youth, but only if I could take today's medical knowledge and skills with me.

And it is a bit humbling to think that probably in another 50 years or so, today's medicine will be considered primitive. I imagine having the ability to diagnose and heal as it is on the Starship Enterprise.

Before I got to the end, I was thinking that I won't be satisfied until we reach Star Trek levels of medical technology.

 

[Michelle420]

 

[ricechickie]

Still keeping busy and dealing with age related issues on top of that. Just over a week ago I started seeing light flashes in the corner of my left eye at night then noticed what they call 'floaters' (dark nebulous strands) in the same corner during the day. Contacted the VA for an Opthalmology consult and a couple of hours later one of the call nurses contacted me, asked my symptoms then instructed me to get to the VA ER asap, thought I might have had a mini stroke. I knew it wasn't a TIA but she planted the bug in my brain so latter we went to the ER and checked in. Well, being a Monday it was packed so after waiting in a treatment room for an hour I finally told the nurse I knew it wasn't a TIA and that I was wasting their time and the doc simply put me in for a consult. The next morning Opthalmology called and I was seen that afternoon, confirmed there was no TIA just age related, slight detachment of the jelly-like “vitreous” from the retina (not a retinal tear or complete detachment).
Don't know if I mentioned it but they finally did a MRI on my right shoulder (the one I landed on in my driveway) and it's definitely messed up, have an Ortho consult later this month.
Other than that the wife started her new job on Monday, only part time (3 days a week) but with a very good hourly rate that even with only 3 days per week will bring in more a month than I do on disability literally doubling our income.
My projects are what's keeping me busy, making more of those wrist cuffs I posted a while back (for sale), stripping down pallets for the wood, making another vest plus some leather work including a replacement for my belt that's starting to come apart. On top of that there's laundry, dishes and the general never ending cleaning as well as the wife's to do list.......

You are definitely on the list for wellness issues as well as the wife's employment situation in your long transitional process. But if the job produces sufficient income for the two of you, I would prefer a 3-day work week to a full time job unless there are less attractive factors related to that.

Speaking of age related issues. . .

Some months ago the vision in my right eye went to hell and that scared me a lot. My ophthalmologist looked at it and immediately sent me to their retina specialist center where I was diagnosed with what they said was an occlusion or swollen blood vessel behind my eye though some initial bleeding had apparently stopped. So followed three eye injections spaced over the next three months which cleared it up entirely--the vision in that eye returned to normal. Just a bit of swelling recurred a month ago so I had one more injection that the doctor thought would probably do it. I'll have to have it checked periodically but the doctors tell me they are really encouraged at the prognosis. So we'll see.

I'm actually about to start reading about coding for eye conditions.

There is much about modern medicine that I hate, but much more for which I am grateful. I am grateful that many medical conditions that were once pretty much fatal can now be healed or corrected or stopped in their tracks. Just like there are many conditions of the eye that resulted in blindness that they can now prevent or make well.

I've often said I would love to return to the America of my childhood and youth, but only if I could take today's medical knowledge and skills with me.

And it is a bit humbling to think that probably in another 50 years or so, today's medicine will be considered primitive. I imagine having the ability to diagnose and heal as it is on the Starship Enterprise.

My daughter wants to be a surgeon. Just a few days after my surgery, I was connected to so many tubes and monitors that hampered my ability to shift in bed or talk. I understood the need for all of it, but I was frustrated. I told her, “When you are a surgeon, make sure you understand that your patient isn’t just a healing meat slab. But someone going through a huge range of emotions.”

 

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[Foxfyre]

Still keeping busy and dealing with age related issues on top of that. Just over a week ago I started seeing light flashes in the corner of my left eye at night then noticed what they call 'floaters' (dark nebulous strands) in the same corner during the day. Contacted the VA for an Opthalmology consult and a couple of hours later one of the call nurses contacted me, asked my symptoms then instructed me to get to the VA ER asap, thought I might have had a mini stroke. I knew it wasn't a TIA but she planted the bug in my brain so latter we went to the ER and checked in. Well, being a Monday it was packed so after waiting in a treatment room for an hour I finally told the nurse I knew it wasn't a TIA and that I was wasting their time and the doc simply put me in for a consult. The next morning Opthalmology called and I was seen that afternoon, confirmed there was no TIA just age related, slight detachment of the jelly-like “vitreous” from the retina (not a retinal tear or complete detachment).
Don't know if I mentioned it but they finally did a MRI on my right shoulder (the one I landed on in my driveway) and it's definitely messed up, have an Ortho consult later this month.
Other than that the wife started her new job on Monday, only part time (3 days a week) but with a very good hourly rate that even with only 3 days per week will bring in more a month than I do on disability literally doubling our income.
My projects are what's keeping me busy, making more of those wrist cuffs I posted a while back (for sale), stripping down pallets for the wood, making another vest plus some leather work including a replacement for my belt that's starting to come apart. On top of that there's laundry, dishes and the general never ending cleaning as well as the wife's to do list.......

You are definitely on the list for wellness issues as well as the wife's employment situation in your long transitional process. But if the job produces sufficient income for the two of you, I would prefer a 3-day work week to a full time job unless there are less attractive factors related to that.

Speaking of age related issues. . .

Some months ago the vision in my right eye went to hell and that scared me a lot. My ophthalmologist looked at it and immediately sent me to their retina specialist center where I was diagnosed with what they said was an occlusion or swollen blood vessel behind my eye though some initial bleeding had apparently stopped. So followed three eye injections spaced over the next three months which cleared it up entirely--the vision in that eye returned to normal. Just a bit of swelling recurred a month ago so I had one more injection that the doctor thought would probably do it. I'll have to have it checked periodically but the doctors tell me they are really encouraged at the prognosis. So we'll see.

I'm actually about to start reading about coding for eye conditions.

There is much about modern medicine that I hate, but much more for which I am grateful. I am grateful that many medical conditions that were once pretty much fatal can now be healed or corrected or stopped in their tracks. Just like there are many conditions of the eye that resulted in blindness that they can now prevent or make well.

I've often said I would love to return to the America of my childhood and youth, but only if I could take today's medical knowledge and skills with me.

And it is a bit humbling to think that probably in another 50 years or so, today's medicine will be considered primitive. I imagine having the ability to diagnose and heal as it is on the Starship Enterprise.

My daughter wants to be a surgeon. Just a few days after my surgery, I was connected to so many tubes and monitors that hampered my ability to shift in bed or talk. I understood the need for all of it, but I was frustrated. I told her, “When you are a surgeon, make sure you understand that your patient isn’t just a healing meat slab. But someone going through a huge range of emotions.”

Amen to that. Working in hospitals for so many years put me in close contact with a lot of surgeons. And of all the medical world I have found them, while so very gifted and blessings to those they need them, to be mostly arrogant, pompous, impolite jerks with the bedside manner of a storefront mannequin.

But my surgeon previously mentioned was not that way. Not only did he restore my quality of life, he probably significantly lengthened it, and he treated me as a person, not as a patient. He generated so much trust that I had zero anxiety through the whole process and he explained everything to me following so I had zero anxiety following the process. On my final followup visit with him, he gave me a hug. That was special.

So yes, I pray that your daughter will be that kind of surgeon.