Andy and I can relate to that. (I’m the one searching, Andy doesn’t need glasses for distance.)
Do you have any physical problems you have to work around?
September 2, 2014
We Can Relate to That
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Oh my, where do I start… you got an hour? 😀
I have a few more, too. They’re nuisances, but they keep us creative. How’s that for putting a positive spin on them!
Actually I would like to hear about them if you’d be willing to share. Would email be better? Problems are a part of life, and they’re not to be denied.
That’s it. What else can one do than (try to) keep a positive perspective? 🙂
I love your Dog Days pictures!
These days my digestion is a bit more delicate than it used to be.
Yes, our poor bodies do need more TLC after we’ve been here a while. My husband used to say, “It’s all downhill after 21.” Somehow most people don’t find that encouraging.
Right now — no, other than allergies that make me itch if I don’t take an antihistamine — sometimes, it’s worse than others. I used to have to work around neck and shoulder pain, but it’s been quite a long while since I had a flair up. I just need glasses for reading tiny print, though they do make the the larger print, like what’s on the screen in front of me right now, more crisp.
It sounds as if you’re in great shape. About reading small print — I told an optometrist once that they had a new operation for far-sightedness. He completely stiffened up and wondered what quack had said that. The operation was to cut something off your legs and add it to your arms. He roared and said I had really caught him with that one.
I keep ringing up my mobile phone number from my landline phone to find where I have left the former.
Thank goodness for landlines! 😀
I wouldn’t call it a “physical” problem so much as a mental one. I am myopic. So far, so fine. Wore contact lenses all my life. Brilliant. Never had a problem. Until four years ago … Oh my god, Jean, I don’t even know whether I should tell this truly pathetic story. My sight had gone slightly foggy. Thought I needed a new prescription. Went to optician. Brilliant. Cataracts. Confirmed at eye clinic. I cried. I cried. I cried. And then some more. The crying being in defiance that fate could catch up even with me. That I didn’t stamp my foot on top of it, doing a John McEnroe “You can’t be serious” is a miracle.
If I do have one totally irrational fear (apart from losing my mental faculties) it’s going blind. In the immortal words of the Angel: “If you are going blind, Mama, we’ll both be fucked.”
Fact is, and I am no coward, I was not able to face the operation. Not because of the op itself but what if I am one of the point nothing people who come away with retinal detachment, going blind as a consequence? Hysteria was rife. Luckily the consultant and his team have the patience of saints: “There is no rush. See how you go.” I don’t know how many times I sat there, in front of them, with my list of questions. Fact is, and you probably know this better than I do, Jean: There are no guarantees.
Anyway, the good news is that I have run out of patience with myself. My right eye is so crap now I only recognize people coming towards me by their gait, their faces being a blur till they stand right in front of me. Enough is enough. Also, metaphorically speaking: I need to see clearly again.
So I’ll have the pre-op mid September, closely followed by the operation (right eye first); at some point my left. I made one request: For a nurse to hold my hand (you are awake if sedated during the op) to squeeze hers, in order to stay with it.
Quivering, yours,
U
I love you!
If you’re worried about retinal detachment due to the cataract removal, you are reading too much internet stuff. I do that too. It’s best not to know too much.
Ursula,
I wish I could be there to hold your hand! I’ve been paranoid about my eyes since adolescence. My eye doctor convinced my mother that I would go blind if I didn’t stop reading so much. Yes, I had severe chronic eyestrain, but it wasn’t eyesight-threatening. I did swallow his myth for a few years, though.
I didn’t stop reading, just picked reading with more meat to give my mind something to chew on when I would be sitting there in the dark. This was before audio books, etc., so I figured I could always learn Braille. I’m a Six in the Enneagram, a worrier with plenty of contingency plans.
Anyway, I would never consider contacts just in case one of my eyes got scratched. Irrational? Probably not given so much problem they were giving me.
SInce then I’ve had three retinal tears and three retinal hemorrhages, and I was on alert for a few years just in case a retina decided to detach. The past couple of years have been great, but I too am starting to face cataract surgery. I’m definitely noticing the one in my left eye.
So I have nothing but sympathy. Yes, yours will probably go fine, but still…. Again, wish I could be there to hold your hand.
The Today Show, about to do a segment on Honesty, asked Jenna: Is honesty the best policy? She thinks. -No, it’s the 3rd best policy. Working-out is the 1st best policy, low carbs is the 2nd.
We’re all in this together. I’m glad I’m not alone.
You are definitely not alone!
biggest gripe – plantar fascia! Waxes and wanes, it’s not in wane mode right now! And it wasn’t from jogging, rather being a gym bunny and then getting into lots of fast walking – now it’s just there, not doing so much if any of those reasons for getting it…
Things like that are always frustrating — they keep us from doing things that are good for us. Is there anything you can do for it?