~Just about Thursday~

 

 

Some photos from my daughters wedding in Maui 

 

 

Eye Doctor

 

I am still trying to get caught up on "Journals".  I've noticed reading was taking me longer, but I'm 50, things are going to take longer.   While reading captions on the History Channel or the beginning or end of a movie, I wasn't finishing what was written.

 

Yesterday, I had my yearly appointment with the eye Doctor.  Yearly, because I was diagnosed with a cataract in my right eye back in 2000 due to the medications I take for the Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis & Fibromyalgia, yada,yada, yada.  Every year, the same thing.....no change, nothing to worry about. 

Until this years exam.  Cateracts both eyes.  Good news is they are not quite bad enough to do surgery on.  So I look at the moon at night and see not one, but six! 

Then the glaucoma test. "Pressures are normal", the doctor said.  Next the part I hate because I am prone to migraines.  The doctor took the ophthalmoscope and while peeling my eyelids over my forehead peers though my eyeballs to see how many brain cells I have left from my Hippy Dippy  Days of the 60's and 70's.

"Ohhhh?", he said. 

I think...."OH WHAT!" I hate it when a doctor says "Ohhh' followed by a long pause. 

"You've got Optic nerve damage, we need to do some more tests"

I think, "Great! How much is this going to cost?"

 

So I was lead to another dark room.  And pictures were take of the back of my eyeballs.  Pictures of the Optic nerves.  The doctor came in and shows me the photos and some laser images.  I could tell he thought because I'm a nurse I'd understand what the images were.  Now, yes, I'm a nurse, an OB/Peds/Neonatal nurse.  So I started asking questions.  Apparently I have Low Pressure Glaucoma.  It's not picked up by the machine because....it's low pressure.  But, still pressure.  Who knows how long I've had it, maybe years, but the damage is showing.  So now instead of yearly visits to the Ophthalmologist, I have to go monthly.  And.....I need glasses BIG Time!  And big bucks, too.  The UV rays will make the condition worse so I have to get the Transitional Lenses with 100% UV filter.  There is no escaping sun.  They have to be Tri-Focals, because the eyes adjust to near, far or in between.  The frames I have are from the early 90's, wire rims.  When we all had the BIG permed poofy hair to go with the BIG shoulder pads.  Those glasses seem so big on my face now that I wear my hair as "nature intended".....straight and usually wind blown.  I call it "Palm Harbor Hair".  I can look great in the mirror, walk outside and it's gone.  Anyway, it's time for new frames.  They are a bargain compared to the lenses.

 

 

 

 

Mama Snowbird

Mama Snowbird had picked me up yesterday for my appointment.  I reminded her to bring her pain pills.  And eat breakfast so she won't get crabby.  I also told her that this doctors visit is usually a long one and if she didn't think she could handle it, I had arranged for a ride.  This is the second time we have spent a day together since I had a talk with her about her "behavior".  Her position was" I can be nasty to my family, because my family has to love me".   My position, " You should to be nice to family, because you love them". 

I think she got it.

 

She was actually pleasant to be around.  No shouting at medical office personal, no complaining about the time, no complaining about pain (well, not too much), or the traffic......and she brought her counted cross stitch to amuse herself.  I took her to lunch at Red Lobster.  She like it.  I needed a few things I could only get at Countryside Mall, which was only across the street.  I told her if she wanted to get home or was too tired I could catch the bus back home.  I wouldn't mind.  She walked in, found a leather chair overlooking the Ice Rink, put her feet up, and did her cross-stitch.  Then she remarked how losing 40 pounds she feels better and is not nearly as short of breathe walking.  Mama Snowbird sat down in a wheelchair in 1986 and never got up.  She was only 53.  She has one of those "Jazzy" scooters, but she didn't cover it and the humidity got to it a few night before.  Something about the computer in it had to dry out.  Hmmm, deja vous.

 

I  went to Merle Norman, got the make-up remover I needed.  Hit the Gap & Dillard's and found a quilted white & pink reversible vest for the trip to Kentucky.  I wanted to get one in Chicago when I was there, but thought that I'd only be in the cold for the 10 days, then home again. This was on sale for 70% off, making it only 13 bucks! 

At Macy's I bought the earrings I fell in love with 2 weeks ago & bought 2 sterling anklet chains (on sale 40% off).  And when I went back to collect Mama Snowbird...she said she was fine & I could do more shopping if I wanted. 

Nah....Enough money spent, time to go home.

 

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