Thanks for the well wishes everyone! I’m sitting here having a few Dos XX and a delish mexican seafood dinner to take my mind off an eye that has been poked and prodded and frozen.
Yep, frozen! Instead of having the back of my eye seared by the firey lances of laser light, I was stabbed from the outside with an icy lance. All in all they made it seem pretty routine.
No strenuous exercise for a week and, yes, that includes weight lifting, I asked. Come back in 3 weeks to see how it has healed. Seems the progonosis is good. Everyone said it was fortunate that this was found now before it affected my vision.
Seems that my first month of 531 will take 45 days and I’ll get plenty of recovery time between my DLs and squats…
[quote]soldog wrote:
After a night without sleep, courtesy of my troubled teenage son, I find out at the eye doctors that I do indeed have a small tear in my retina. Laser surgery is scheduled for this afternoon. The only good thing about this is that the detachment is in an area of the retina not used for seeing. [/quote]
Teen aged sons are good for that aren’t they? Hope everything turns out ok with the laser surgery. In any event, good lifting. ~5000 ft/lbs of work in ~1 minute?
[quote]Carl Darby wrote:
soldog wrote:
After a night without sleep, courtesy of my troubled teenage son, I find out at the eye doctors that I do indeed have a small tear in my retina. Laser surgery is scheduled for this afternoon. The only good thing about this is that the detachment is in an area of the retina not used for seeing.
Teen aged sons are good for that aren’t they? Hope everything turns out ok with the laser surgery. In any event, good lifting. ~5000 ft/lbs of work in ~1 minute?[/quote]
Yeah, I forgot that part. Even more impressive. (We won’t tell anyone that you adapt quickly and after a short time, its not really an issue. We will just rejoice when they suck eggs in conditions that we have adapted to.) Sounds good to me. (:>)
[quote]Carl Darby wrote:
Yeah, I forgot that part. Even more impressive. (We won’t tell anyone that you adapt quickly and after a short time, its not really an issue. We will just rejoice when they suck eggs in conditions that we have adapted to.) Sounds good to me. (:>)[/quote]
Ha -That made me laugh! (You who are at a piddlin’ 7000 (or so) feet…)
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
10 good hours… you needed that. Hope the eye is getting managable.[/quote]
Thanks J,
The only side effect from the treatment has been half my eye being totally bloodshot and that is clearing up now. I didn’t even get to wear my pirate patch…
I did go out with the chain saw today and cut up the remainder of the trees and limbs that came down during our April blizzard. Not too strenuous, but probably more than the dr would approve.
Hey Soldog, don’t forget thay every day is Talk Like a Pirate Day when you’re wearing an eye patch!
I saw a pirate the other day, with a steering wheel sticking out of his trousers. I asked him, “Whazzup with that?”, and the said, “I dunno, but it’s drivin’ me nuts!”
Another week and another call from the county sheriff, my son now is not only troubled but a juvenile delinquent as well. The sad thing is that I wasn’t terribly surprised when the call came. He’s seeing a teen psychologist and unless things improve rapidly he will end up in a military style boarding school. I’m not trying to be cryptic but I don’t really want to publish the details. On the other hand I need to share with somebody, and you guys are cheaper than having two of us talking to a psychologist at who knows what per hour…
I feel your pain from a different direction. We have been dealing with “mean girl shit” amongst the daughters friends. This is a bunch of 5th graders. Not nearly as serious as your issues, but the pain is till the same. Good luck buddy. We are all here.
