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This handsome man loses his manhood tomorrow. :hit :oops:

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Blooie said:
I guess a partial answer is better than not knowing, Debby, and IM is right - less time on those aching feet!

Eye appointment yesterday. I need new glasses so badly. Got new glasses in 2015 (last time I went in, I’m embarrassed to say) and after a few weeks I absolutely hated them. Hated them! I never know what to get so once again I let the team there help me. Oh, they just raved about this pair. Since my vision hadn’t changed that much, I just went back to wearing the glasses I got in 2013. So I went in yesterday knowing Dr. Kim was probably going to kick my hiney. Well, her daughter-in-law, 3 years fresh out of optometry school, is the doctor who saw me. Kim’s son is the one who treated me for that nasty eye infection last year. So it’s a small family practice, and all three doctors are “Dr. MacDowell”, which is why we use their first names. I’ve been going to Dr. Kim for over 20 years - she is also the eye doctor for our whole family, including Jamie and Little Diane. So now her whole family has treated my whole family!

Well, didn’t get new glasses. <sigh> But Dr. Carla is setting me up with an eye surgeon to remove the cataract on my right eye, which will be followed a couple of weeks later by the doing the left one. I also have macular degeneration and my pressures were borderline high...right on the edge. So I walked out of there with eye vitamins to hopefully slow the progression of the macular degeneration, a different kind of eye drops from what I’d been using for my chronic dry eye, drops for my eye allergies, and she’s sending the script in to our mail order pharmacy for glaucoma drops. She’s going to try to get the consult with the surgeon set up for Friday afternoon, because I have a pulmonary appointment and low dose lung CT scan up in Billings Friday morning. One trip would simplify things!

She said there was no point in ordering glasses. They’ll send my lens prescription up to this surgeon in Billings, and the replacement lenses will have my corrections in them. I may need readers after the surgery, but that should be it. Dr. Carla is also contacting my cardiologist to get approval for me to stop taking my blood thinners pre-op. I don’t know how long I have to be off them before the surgery. Cataract surgery is so routine, and doesn’t take long to do or to recover from, so I’m not even worried about that. But the macular degeneration was a bit of a shock, as was the borderline high pressure during the glaucoma screening. Both Dr. Kim and Dr. Carla told me and Ken that several of the glaucoma drops can affect heart rate and blood pressure, which I don’t need. The one that doesn’t, the one she’s putting me on, can cause eye color changes. I told Ken on the way home I’d rather deal with the heart side effects...I’m used to coronary stuff but even more used to my blue eyes! I’ve had them longer.

I don’t have time for this kind of garbage! We only have 7 days home next month, and July is filling up fast!
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My husbands great aunt had glaucoma. We busted her out behind the garage at a family gathering smoking a joint :gigShe was hilarious!
 

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