Preparedness for when

Margaret54

Hi everyone Have really enjoyed catching up again. What a lovely forum, full of great advice, warmth and caring about others and support too. Bitterly cold out today, but you have to walk the wee dog, no matter what.
Sorry to hear about the pets. Our wee pet is a collie/springer cross and we have him since he was a puppy. He is very old now, almost blind and can't hear too well, and had a very bad fit the other night. We feel the end is not too far away and we dread it. Felt sad reading the peoples stories, and I do understand. They are part of your family and are loved so very much. Wrap up well everyone Margaret x

maryb

Well, I've just been told the time has come for my cataracts to be done. Upside is, they will correct my vision so I should be able to do without glasses going forward. I think it would be an extreme form of prepping to get your eyes operated on if you didn't need it anyway (never had the nerve to go for laser surgery) but there's no doubt I will be glad to get it sorted now rather than in a few years' time when no doubt there will be extreme healthcare rationing.

And think what I will save on glasses - they cost an absolute arm and a leg

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Good decision MARYB hope the op is soon, pain free and totally successful,then enjoy the rest of your life glasses free, brave you are, Cheers Lyn xxx.

MAR my eldest DD had gall stone problems and had hers removed when she was 25. They could never see the stones, and hummed and harred about wether she had them or not. When the surgeon talked to her after the op he said her gall bladder had been full of sand sized little pieces of grit, not big stones which was what was giving the problem but didn't show up in the scan. The stones are not always like boulders, hope that's not too much information but thought you might like to know!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

maryb

I'm having the first eye done next Wednesday!! Ah well, less time to get nervous. Then they'll do the other eye after a month. In the meantime I'm to experiment with a contact lens in the other eye to see whether to go for absolute correction and have to wear reading glasses occasionally or leave it at minus 1 which might be better for close work/computer etc,

GreyQueen

maryb wrote: »

I'm having the first eye done next Wednesday!! Ah well, less time to get nervous. Then they'll do the other eye after a month. In the meantime I'm to experiment with a contact lens in the other eye to see whether to go for absolute correction and have to wear reading glasses occasionally or leave it at minus 1 which might be better for close work/computer etc,

Good luck for your eye surgery. I know people who've had it done and it went very well.

As a life-long short-sighted person, I've considered surgical correction but very chary about risking something as important as my sight. But it would be lovely not to be dependant on them and seemingly preptastic, too.

Soooo, last year I asked my optician if my problems were correctable by laser surgery. She said yes, but she has always noticed that the surgeons who do this don't choose to have it done on their own eyes. It leaves your eyes fragile and a blow to the eye area could cause a lasered eyeball to EXPLODE.

Yeuch. That's wandering into horror movie territory. Hoping never to get a sharp blow to the eye area but ya never know. I shall just soldier on with my myopic ole eyeballs.

Been having a little poddle around the homestead, trying to keep the floors clear. If you need to leg it, day or night, stuff underfoot isn't going to help issues.

Righty, off to get a bite of tea. Laters, GQ.

PS, that book I mentioned last night? S'OK but the stuff is available elsewhere and the only link to the Doomsday Preppers series is a series of small inserts. The looters will have no doubt taken notes and be heading right for them in the event that SHTF.

maryb

I did toy with the idea of laser surgery before bottling out but couldn't have it anyway because of my glaucoma. Don't want to go into too many details for the sake of the more sensitive souls but the procedure causes a very short but large increase in eye pressure and that's not good if you've got glaucoma. I would have thought it's not all that good for anyone really - until you actually get glaucoma, you don't know if you are personally at risk.

Also if you do get cataracts later it makes it more difficult to get the refraction right when they insert the new lens if you've previously had laser surgery.

As it is, I get the vision correction as a by product and I don't have to feel guilty about having something for cosmetic reasons (inner Puritan popping out here).

But I will be able to see the zombies coming a mile off:rotfl:

GreyQueen

When Mrs Optician said "exploding eyeball" I flashed on an image of the zombies. They'd lurve to snack on an exploded eyeball, I'm sure.

Didn't know that bit about the refraction if you later require cataract surgery. Kid Bro (mid forties) has the start of a very small cataract, but his shortsight is even worse than mine.

Honestly, you have two parents, one with perfect vision and one with myopia, and what to the kiddlywinks inherit?

If I ever get to meet my maker I shall be Having Words.........:rotfl:

maryb

Well I'm going by what my opthalmologist said - I think it alters the calculations they have to do to get the right correction. Though TBH I don't remember reading that back when I did my internet research on laser surgery. (Plenty of other horror stories, of course - there always are).

It was the risk of permanently dry gritty eyes which seems to happen to an unfortunate minority that put me off. And both the people I know who have had laser surgery seemed to have an odd, slightly "hooded eye" look afterwards - like someone whose contact lenses aren't comfortable. Just hoping I don't get that. But if I'm unlucky it would still be a small price to pay for something that stops you going blind. Modern medicine is wonderful

Goldiegirl

I've never considered laser surgery for my eyes.

I've worn glasses since age 7, and I'm very comfortable with them - it's just part of my look.

My mum had glaucoma, I'm monitored regularly for this, and although my eye pressure is higher than average, this is apparantly normal for me and I have no signs of actual glaucoma.

However, I wouldn't want to do anything to increase my eye pressure

maryb

I'm a real evangelist for glaucoma monitoring. Apparently you don't really notice anything until up to 50% of the optic nerve cells have been destroyed - and once they're gone, they're gone.

Hands up who is a few months overdue for an eye test? (You know who you are):D