My leukemia's back.

[N F C]

Yep, I've been looking but until DH is ready to devote some time to building all the "infrastructure" he thinks we need, looking is all that's happening.

I did find out my favorite online spice store is now carrying a pretty decent number of dried mushrooms. We're always ready to eat them, even if we aren't ready to grow them

 

[donrae]

Oh man....someone on CL is liquidating their flock of Bourbon Red turkeys for a pretty decent price. I so want some of those, but I have no space. keep repeating...I have no space. I have no space. I need to take this year off from adding birds so we can move and get settled. I have no space. I do have willpower. I have no space. I have a Honey who wants me to be happy and would build me a pen, somewhere....NO! I have no space. None. No space.


Plus, the way my luck is going, they'd all get blackhead and up and die.

 

[hbhoffman]

I am going to play with the new mandoline slicer that was delivered yesterday...and drink coffee...

Umm, Should these two go together???

And Rachel, Guess who just went and paid for 2 visits to the eye doctor and 2 new pair of glasses??? So out of my 5. FOUR are now wearing glasses and the 5th one should be be sees out of one eye due to her lens being removed at 18 months because of an acquired cataract. Think we may need to get one of us workng at an eyeglasses place! Lol. AT least this time the eyelasses for both were not outrageous. Praise God!

 

[N F C]

Hold fast Rachel! This won't be your one and only chance to get turkeys.

 

[donrae]

Umm, Should these two go together???

And Rachel, Guess who just went and paid for 2 visits to the eye doctor and 2 new pair of glasses??? So out of my 5. FOUR are now wearing glasses and the 5th one should be be sees out of one eye due to her lens being removed at 18 months because of an acquired cataract. Think we may need to get one of us workng at an eyeglasses place! Lol. AT least this time the eyelasses for both were not outrageous. Praise God!

I'm the only one in my house hold who does not wear glasses, and that's only cause I indulged myself in Lasik years ago.

Could almost make one wonder--are humans really designed to have such poor vision, and our standards are higher than what we're designed for? Or....

is it diet related? Do less developed nations have such rampant vision issues? Is it all the wheat and corn we eat? Our state of chronic low grade inflammation? GMOs? Imbalance in Omega? So much other stuff is diet related, they're finding, so why not vision?

 

[Bunnylady]

My father started wearing glasses when he was a small child (almost 80 years ago). My older brother started having to wear glasses as a tween. My mother didn't start having to wear glasses until she was in her 40's; I wasn't terribly surprised when my vision began needing assistance at about that age. Some of it is genetic, some is age related. When I was a kid, they thought that reading too much/sitting too close to the TV could make you short-sighted; now, I'm hearing similar things about computer use and video games, so maybe it was true after all?

I don't know what the incidence of vision problems is in poorer countries, but for many years, a retired ophthalmologist from our church collected donated eyeglasses, which he took with him on mission trips to Jamaica. There was always more need than he had glasses to meet the need, especially children's sizes.

 

[ronott1]

My father started wearing glasses when he was a small child (almost 80 years ago). My older brother started having to wear glasses as a tween. My mother didn't start having to wear glasses until she was in her 40's; I wasn't terribly surprised when my vision began needing assistance at about that age. Some of it is genetic, some is age related. When I was a kid, they thought that reading too much/sitting too close to the TV could make you short-sighted; now, I'm hearing similar things about computer use and video games, so maybe it was true after all?

I don't know what the incidence of vision problems is in poorer countries, but for many years, a retired ophthalmologist from our church collected donated eyeglasses, which he took with him on mission trips to Jamaica. There was always more need than he had glasses to meet the need, especially children's sizes.

Almost everyone will need reading glasses. It has to do with the shape of the cornea. There is a new procedure for correcting it--


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Anybody over 40 who’s gone out to buy a pair of reading glasses during the last few years may not know it, but likely has a condition called presbyopia, in which the lens in the eye can no longer change its shape as effectively as during younger years.
Distance vision may still work well, but when it comes to seeing anything close up – a computer, cellphone or newspaper – your eyes need help.
U.S. Ophthalmologists until recent weeks could help only those with cataracts solve this problem surgically by inserting a device into the cornea as they were removing a cataract.
“You can be dealing with presbyopia but you might have to wait 30 years to develop cataracts,” said Dr. Ephraim Atwal, a Cheektowaga eye surgeon.
The Food and Drug Administration approved use earlier this year of a device called the KAMRA inlay (pronounced “camera” inlay) and Atwal last month became the first doctor in New York State certified to insert the inlay. Atwal – who works with his father, Dr. Amar Atwal, and four other doctors at Atwal Eye Care – called the inlay “a matter of convenience and a matter of cosmetics.” There’s also the matter of cost: about $3,900.
While pricier than a trip to the Dollar Store, the cost in time can be considerable for those who need to slip on a pair of “cheater” glasses every time they want to make a phone call, read a text message or peek at a computer screen, Atwal said. He added that the procedure also can preserve depth perception that can become shaky for those who use a monovision distance contact lens in one eye and near vision contact in the other.
“The KAMRA inlay looks like a sequin in a dress, but if you get under a microscope, you can see how technologically advanced it is. It took 10 years of R&D just to come up with the idea of it,” Atwal said. That, the lone manufacturer, and the fact that the surgery is performed using a $400,000-plus Swiss Zeimer laser helps explain the cost.
During the 4-minute procedure, the laser is used to create a small pocket inside the cornea, similar to LASIK surgery. Atwal uses forceps to place the KAMRA device within the layers of the cornea. Full recovery generally takes up to a month.
The procedure is performed only on the non-dominant eye, Atwal said, “so it doesn’t affect your daily activities. You can still maintain depth perception and there’s minimal to no loss in distance vision.”
For more information, visit atwaleye.com
– Scott Scanlon​

 

[Blooie]

My granddaughter, Little Diane, has inherited Marfan Syndrome from her dad. Her half sister Lacey also has it, and Lacey's is as bad as their dad. In Marfans there is little to no connective tissue, so his and Lacey's lenses literally float rather than being attached. He has had his repaired, and it was tough finding a specialist who could do it, believe me. Have you seen the commercials for Restastis with the pretty eye doctor and the glass building? That's where he had his eyes fixed. The surgery is similar to that for cataracts, but because there is no connective tissue the lens kept floating away during the surgery, and suturing the new lens in place was extremely tricky. Little Diane has been lucky - hers is a very mild form, showing as extremely long digits, long arms, and double jointed-ness, with a slight pigeon chest and overcrowded mouth. She also has a heart murmur and her aorta is monitored yearly, like Lacey and their dad. His is really bad - they are now watching to decide when would be the optimum time to do the aorta repair. Lacey hasn't reached the danger zone yet.

Anyway, he got his coke bottle glasses when he was 5 and has been wearing contacts since he was 8. Now that he's an adult and has had the surgery, his eyes aren't as bad but he still wears glasses and contacts.

 

[hbhoffman]

Hey all, Anyone have any successful ideas for keeping hawks away? We had 9. Now we have 3. :-( They are in a fenced .5 acre pasture with a tree covering 1/5th of it. Not allowed to shoot it here. as it is a protected species. We are not wanting a rooster at this point. But if I have to keep feeding the hawk, I would prefer a rooster over my laying hens! It is big enough to carry away my Olivia at 8 Lbs. 8-0 Wishing I could strap on reverse vision mirrored glasses on it! LOL. Then looking down it would only see the sky and not my hens.

 

[donrae]

Ron-- I was 33 when I had my Lasik. The doctor told me I was good to go, but would probably still need reading glasses ten years or so down the road. I told him I was fully confident that in ten years they'd have a way to correct that also---didn't know I was psychic!

Blooie--we have a friend who is being diagnosed with some type of connective tissue disorder. I'm not sure if they've pinned it down yet, she's just now gotten assertive about being diagnosed. She's had low platelets and white count, breaks bones apparently because her tendons and ligaments don't support her bones like they should. She's double jointed and now they're also talking about monitoring for aortic aneurysm because blood vessels are made of connective tissue. I think that's why she bruises so much. My platelets have been much, much lower than hers, but I have minimal bruising. But it makes sense that if her actual blood vessels damage more easily, she'd bruise more. She just had a work up in at the University, she's also having absorption issues with different foods and meds. And of course she has a 7 year old son she's kind of freaked out about possibly inheriting whatever this is....