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RE: I'm more broken than you - Greg - 02-03-2023
I'm tired of Dr. Wong touching my eyeballs with his tools. Why do I think he tortures me all the while he tells me to hold still and make sure my forehead is pressed against the bar?
I spent a lot of time looking at a really bright white light while the doctor inspected the back of my eyeballs. The damage from the high pressure was minimal but there was still damage. The most disconcerting spot came when the nurse read the pressure on my eyes and determined the pressure to be in the 20s. That was a downer. In the twenties is still bad and about what I had immediately after I started taking the drops and doing the surgery.
Dr. Wong redid the test with more sensitive equipment, which necessitated touching my goddamn eyeball, and the readings were in the 9-11 range. Sigh of relief. I get to go back in two months for more looking at my eyes. I think they are rerunning the tests I had the first time back in December.
RE: I'm more broken than you - Drunk Monk - 02-03-2023
Anyone else misread this like so?
(02-03-2023, 03:24 PM)Greg Wrote: I'm tired of Dr. Wong touching my balls with his tools.
RE: I'm more broken than you - Greg - 02-03-2023
No. Jerk.
RE: I'm more broken than you - King Bob - 02-03-2023
Shouldn't that be "with his tool"?
RE: I'm more broken than you - Greg - 02-03-2023
No. Jerk.
RE: I'm more broken than you - thatguy - 02-03-2023
My mom has some retinal detachment related ailment. She goes in to Kaiser every six weeks for a checkup and they inject saline into her eyeball to keep the pressure up and push that retina against the back wall of the eye...Fun stuff!
I'm looking forward to slow decommissioning of the corporeal being!
--tg
RE: I'm more broken than you - Greg - 02-21-2023
Knee Phobia
My left knee continues to heal but not enough. I'm afraid it is just waiting to go off much like the people in Naples looking up at Mount Vesuvius. It's not a question of if but when. Granted, I am able to do my 3 mile walks in the morning without discomfort, but every so often, maybe once or twice per walk, I get a hot shot of pain on the inside of the knee. It's like a periodic reminder to keep me worried. I don't like it.
RE: I'm more broken than you - Drunk Monk - 02-21-2023
Sounds like my shoulder.
If we diced all of D00M up and stitched together all the good working parts, would this FrankenD00M monster be able to survive?
RE: I'm more broken than you - Greg - 02-21-2023
Some members of Doom still have working parts? Amazing.
RE: I'm more broken than you - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 02-21-2023
3 miles every day and only 2 jolts of searing agony sounds good to me. Do you wear a brace or use the trekking poles?
RE: I'm more broken than you - Greg - 02-21-2023
I no longer use the brace. And I've never used trekking poles. The Queen swears by her trekking poles for the hill behind the house and when we hike.
RE: I'm more broken than you - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 02-21-2023
I've heard good things about the poles. Are your knees swollen at the end of your daily hike? Honestly, I'm impressed & envious that you can do a daily 3 mile loop.
If your knees are slowly improving, this is just the new normal?
RE: I'm more broken than you - Greg - 02-21-2023
The knees can be a little swollen but not much. Some of the recent problems might be due to hauling brush around the hill and climbing around uneven ground.
But it was a little sharp pain right before the really bad pain that has me concerned I'm on the verge of doing what happened before. I'm afraid the little pains are precursors.
They do get a bit better every day. I increase the lengths of the walks a bit at a time, part of the lose weight exercise more program.
RE: I'm more broken than you - Drunk Monk - 02-21-2023
(02-21-2023, 09:23 AM)Greg Wrote: Some members of Doom still have working parts? Amazing.
My right arm is okay. My sword arm. I've been toying with a op-ed piece for KFM about the One-Armed Swordsman genre.
I can do 7+ miles but my calves cramp like barnacles stuck to whale chins.
Yeah, that analogy sounded better in my head...
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RE: I'm more broken than you - Greg - 02-28-2023
Heading to Big Kaiser Fresno to fix my eyeglass prescription. The previous prescription was made while under the influence of the Glaucoma. I think once the pressure went down in the eyeballs, it changed the prescription. I'm hoping this time they will get it right and I will be able to see out of the right eye.
In contradiction to this theory of eye pressure affecting my eyes is the fact the prescription for the left eye works fine.