Wellness

[sophiamarie]

Hi.  Today, while getting my eye  injection from my Retina doctor, I thought about you.  Whenis your appt. and how are you doing with your eye???  I have been watching for an update and haven't seen one from you.  My eyes are so dilated, I can't even see what I'm writing - so I hope you can "see" this.....  Hope all is well......

[dooBdoo]

          Hi, @sophiamarie!   Just adding a notification to help @sfnative locate this thread.    My best to both of you!

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[sophiamarie]

Thanks Doobs.  I haven't seen her since yesterday (I think) and I was thinking of her all the while I was at my Dr. appt.  I hope she's okay and no real problems.

Appreciate you bringing the thread up again.  I would have done it before it hit pg. 2.  Thx again.

[sfnative]

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@dooBdoo wrote:

          Hi, @sophiamarie!   Just adding a notification to help @sfnative locate this thread.    My best to both of you!

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@dooBdoo

Thank you so much for directing SophiaMarie.  After dilation, my eyes take an entire 7 hours to recover, so I was unable to log onto my laptop on Wednesday.  Yesterday was spent doing catch-up work on a baby afghan, which is over-due, plus a bit on these forums.  I simply didn't catch this one - so sorry.

On another subject, I'd like to take this opportunity to bring you up to date on my log-in issues.  That was why I left many moons ago.  It got to the point where, honestly, I just couldn't log in 99 out of 100 attempts.  Now fast forward to weeks ago, when I decided to give it another try.  Success on the first try, followed by failure on the second, third, fourth, etc.  The system kept wanting me to log in using my SoCal emails (home and/or work) and old password (we no longer live there).  Then it would always shoot me over to the new customer page so that I could create a profile, including my email and a password of my choice.  Though I decided to do this, it never worked.  After sever weeks of frustration, I went into my Outlook and created a new Outlook email account with a new password.  Just days before this, a letter had been composed and mailed to the person on high.  As if experiencing a spacial anomaly, several actions occurred at the same time:  On High ordered an investigation into this situation; that office called me on a Saturday; issue was something serious; and, at the same time, my new Outlook email, plus password, took effect.  Ever since the meshing of these actions, I have not had one issue - knock on wood!  I'm very grateful, to say the least.  Please know that your efforts were very appreciated re the mods; however, after my Saturday conversation, it appears that none of them could have affected any positive change, my issue was just that bad.  Thank you for being here for many who benefit so much from your various areas of expertise.  XXX

[sfnative]

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@sophiamarie wrote:

Thanks Doobs.  I haven't seen her since yesterday (I think) and I was thinking of her all the while I was at my Dr. appt.  I hope she's okay and no real problems.

Appreciate you bringing the thread up again.  I would have done it before it hit pg. 2.  Thx again.

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@sophiamarie@dooBdoo

Hi SophiaMaria!

Many thanks to dooBdoo for providing assistance, so you could locate me.  One of my goals today was to start a new thread called "Updating my Retina Specialist Appointment."  So, I won't do that now and simply provide a summary here.

The visit was kind of disappointing in that the retina tear I was told I have doesn't really qualify as a tear.  What's happening is that the vitreous rupture is causing a constant pulling of the retina up and away from its base way over on right, where it comes to an end in my right eye.  Hope you get the idea.  This occurred 6 months ago.  It cannot be surgically repaired.  My new Retina doc said it may yet heal or it may not, in which case that eye will flash for the remainder of my life, so I'll just have to live with it.

The more disconcerting part of the entire incident of the vitreous rupture is that the vitreous is no longer stable.  By that I mean it is interferring with my vision in that it creates "waves" in my visual field.  Nothing can be done about this.

However, since my right eye is 6 months past the initial incident, I can finally have cataract surgery, which has been postponed for various reasons, including 2 eye infections, for the last 2 years.  I will be so happy to get that darn lens replaced and then new prescription glasses!  All of my glasses needed new prescription lenses 2 years ago and when I went to get an eye exam and new lenses is when I discovered my right eye required cataract surgery.  So...this has been a long time in coming.  I just wish the darn wavy vitreous would stop waving.  Know what I mean?

You're so sweet for wanting to check in to find out how my appointment turned out.  I really appreciate your kindness in that regard.

Hope that your injections continue to provide successful treatment.  I sure wish my Dad had listened to his physician about injection outcomes.  But...he was "procedure paranoid" and simply wouldn't do it, so his vision became worse and worse.  I do believe it was a huge factor in his fall down a few concrete stairs that landed him in the hospital, where he died, after acquiring MRSA at that darn hospital.

For anyone who may be reading this and wonder why anyone would let any doctor inject anything into one of their eyes,  please know that medicine has come a long way in just the last 10 years.  The eye can be numbed, as your gums are at the dentist, and the procedure is rather swift.  Please take a moment to call your eye doctor and make that appointment.

Thanks, again, SophiaMaria!   XXX

[dooBdoo]

          Hi, @sfnative!    Thanks for the kind words.   Whew!   You've been through the wringer trying to get the login quagmire cleared up.    I'm just glad it finally was addressed and corrected.    There are new, unpleasant changes to the user file that are causing problems...   things like multiple users having identical nicknames...  and although the issues have been reported nothing has been done.    So keep your eyes out for anything that even hints at a new glitch so you can notify the powers-that-be quickly.  

          Good wishes to you and to @sophiamarie.❤️