Genealogy Chat

Hi Everyone

Anne I have already started the tretment,eye drops for the Glucoma for thr rest of my days ..I don't mind that so much.

The cateracs I shall have done in about six months ,funny enough I am looking forward to that it is the first time anyone has told me they can do somehing for my eyes since I was two years old...I am now sixty so I have waited a while.

My grandchildren do not like me without my glasses on and that is what may happen after I have had the op.

We had a nice visit with Dad,the weather was very nice not too hot and a cool breaze blowing...we went out on our 2 klm jetty,it has a train so dad did not have to walk out there.

I hope you all have alovely easter sure I will be around her for the hols.

Better get my dinner dishes done early night for me tonight I think.

Suex

Hi all


Sue ...... I had cataracts removed from both eyes back in 2001

I'd worn glasses from the age of 5 or 6, and they were very strong by 2001.

They did change my eyesight from extremely short sight to long sight, and needing prescription glasses only for reading ....................... and for eating!

I found that a plate on the table was at just the wrong distance to be clearly visible without the reading glasses ...... so if I want to be sure what I am eating, then I have to have my glasses close at hand.


The other thing with the change was that the computer was difficult ...........

If you end up with readers like I did, make sure that you tell them that you want to use the glasses for reading AND for the computer.


Sometimes they are called computer glasses, sometimes just graduated lenses.

BUT get graduated lenses ............. there is no line between the bottom reading part, the middle computer (or middle distance), and a narrow plain glass (or distance) width at the very top.


I didn't work that out with my first readers ................. and ended up either leaning forward to get close enough to see the screen clearly enough, OR peering over the top of them to see the screen, OR taking the glasses off. In either of the last 2 cases, I also had to lean back to get the screen in complete focus.

I went to a different optician (here that's the guys who make the glasses, they can't do the testing) the next time, and they are the ones who sort of went "well, of course, you need computer glasses!"!!


I'm sure I've said this before ......... but do be sure to have sunglasses with you to wear home after the operation. Even if it is raining! You will find everything will seem very much brighter. Those halogen headlights on cars still are too bright for me to look at, 10 years later!



take care everyone




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Hi Everyone

Sylvia

Thankyou for all that info I shall take it all in.
I am very long sighted at present ,he has promised me I will notice a big change and will possibly only need readers after it all.

My left eye he says will not change the sight because it is a lazy eye and that is all due to the brain / eye not working together...I did have a patch over that eye when I was a little girl but I think it did no good.
Doing the lense in that eye to keep my eye strait or it will go in the corner.

I am quite excited about it ,if it gives me better sight than I have anything will make me happy.....can't see me not having to wear glasses at all though.

Is eveyone going to watch the wedding ,I hope it helps the Uk pick up a bit so many things going on all over the world we all need somthing to smile about.

I have the Oh home with his sore neck again, not a good patient is my Oh .

My day is all over the place with him home ...god knows what I will do when he retires.

Must be cuppa time ...check in again tonight.

Suex

Interested in the discussion on cataracts and eyes.

I have cataracts and a lazy left eye. My Optician/Optometrist reckons that when it comes to operation time the Surgeon will only do my "good" eye and not bother about the other one. (have not ordered the white cane yet!!)

Wedding - what wedding???

Hi Robert

I don't think your optometrist is quite on the ball.
My opthomoligist/Surgeon said to me he will do both because without glasses your lazy eye will go into the corner ie; cross eyed.
Also I will be surprised how much sight is lost re the cateracts in the bad eye.

I am emagining it will be like wearing perminent contacts and we need both eyes done to keep the lazy one strait.

Really excited about it me.

I love weddings ,only done it once myself.

Emagine doing it twice ...you would have to have rocks in your head.
Better not let the OH see that.
Suexx

Thanks for that, Susan. I am going for a check up in 5 months.

I love Weddings ---- correction --- I love Wedding Cake!!!

Hi

I also had a lazy eye ... and wore a patch over the good eye when I was about 5 or 6.

Idea being that I would begin to use the bad eye (my left)

Nope


It's left me being an alternator ................ I use one eye at a time, but can switch from one to the other.


No wonder I found it so easy at school when we first used a monocular microscope ...... I could look down the eyepiece with my left eye, then use my right eye to draw what I had seen. Everybody else in the class was shouted at because they lifted up their heads so they could look down at the piece of paper!

Opticians hate me ............ I can control the "switching" to a certain degree, but sometimes I just cannot


About 4 or 5 months after we married and moved to the US, my right eye actually moved into the corner if it wasn't being used ...... OH used to laugh because he could tell which eye was being used!

I had it operated on in early '69 after we came to Canada ............ the surgeon asked if I had been under stress 2 years earlier. Well, yes .............. I quit a job, got married, moved to another country, got a new job. On any list of stress, those all rank in the top 5!


My cataract surgeon said there could be a problem if he had to leave the average 6 months between the operations .......... normally here, they would do one operation, then book the operating room for the second oepration. Instead, he booked the 2 operations at the same time. The closest he could get the operations was 6 weeks.




for those of us who love to find cheap flights .................


OH sent me this link earlier today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPyl2tOaKxM




Take care everyone



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Anyone seen Evelyn??
Dont think she has gone to France yet...If anyone sees her please ask her to check her email from me...Thanks muchly..

Fan..x

Hi Everyone

Sylvia

The patching when I was small did me no good either.

I have never been given any good news about my eyes until now so I am very pleased.
I am going good with my drops for Glucoma ...I get the OH to put them in as it is a very small bottle and I don't think they will last a month,possibly three weeks ...at $40 every three weeks ..still I have to grin and bear it and wait until I am 65 then I get them for $5.20 a script.

Fan sorry no sign of evelyn,will pass on message if I see her around the traps over the weekend .

Have a good easter break everyone and stay safe,I will be popping in from time to time ....no going anywhere hoping for a quiet on.

Suex

Golly, I feel as though I am sitting in Specsavers, eavesdropping on a conversation in the next room.......lol

Hope everyone gets their eyes - crossed or not - sorted soon!


Robert, I bet you will be glued to the television like everyone else for the royal wedding. Mind you, I do realise that there are some who aren't interested but that's their loss. I am somewhat concerned about the security though because there are so many fanatics around.


I went to see my poorly friend on Wednesday and came home absolutely amazed. She has been in hospital for 9 weeks now and the diagnosis seemed to be dementia. When I went to sit with her two weeks ago whilst her husband's funeral was taking place, she was very confused and not wanting to get out of bed.

However..........when I arrived on Wednesday, not only was she sitting out of bed but she seemed to be very much 'on the ball'. Her conversation was lucid and she looked extremely well. I couldn't believe it and was nearly.....I did say nearly........rendered speechless. Other visitors arrived and they were also similarly shocked. I don't know what the prognosis is, but for that day, my friend was 'back' with us.


Looks as though it is going to be a beautiful Easter weatherwise doesn't it? Well, in England anyway..... :) I love Easter and all that it brings.


The light mornings are beautiful except for the dawn chorus! We have one bird which I am ready to strangle soon!! Not a clue what it is but it's very chipper toooooo early in the day.


Take care, love. Cx

Cynthia

That is wonderfull news about your friend ...with so much doom and gloom around it is nice to hear of something nice happening.

How is she coping without her Oh ,will she be long in hospitol do you think.

I love weddings and the Royals do them so grand ...I am too worried about the security,there are a lot of nutters out the just waiting to spoil things .
You should see what the boat people are doing to the centres we put them in before we OK them for Aussie citts, they are burning them ....they come here and expect us to give them everything and no work for it.

Sorry call me a rasist I just wish they would go back to there own land ...we can't afford to keep them all for nothing our own citts don't get half of what the boat people are given and there is no thanks just violence.

Get off my soapbox .
Have a nice night everyone .
Suex

Agree nice to hear good news Cynthia - and I do agree takes me back 18 months to when I was sitting in the eye clinic nearly every other week for a year.

Just popped in to see what was was going on - back at work tomorrow - so may get a chance to give you a run down of our couple of days living the high life.

Take care all

Little did I know that I had joined the GR Society for blind people, but then I am in elite company.

nah, Robert


I'm not blind .................. now!

HAPPY EASTER to all my friends. Back later.....Cx

Hello Robert
!!!! I won't be blind by this time next year !!!!

Hello everyone
I hope you have all been good and the Easter Bunny left lots of chocky for you.

My OH knows I like dark chocolate so that is what I got today and it is gone already.

We have visitors for a Barby tonight so I have just finished getting ready for them.
A lot of work Barbies we don't just throw a scrimp on it ,I like to do tatie salad,Pasta salad ,the usual tomatoes Cucumber and lettuce cheese.

I am getting hungry just thinking about it.

Our town is a holiday des for Perth people and I can tell you it is full at this time of the year.
Shopping was hell yesterday and as usual the prices went up,I like t/bone for my steak with garlic sausages.
Red wine tonight fingers crossed no migrane after it .will try to drop in tonight.
Suex

Hi all

weather change here ............

yesterday, sunny, blue skies, about 15-19C (depending on where you were around town)

today .............. rain and around 10C!


Sue .

..... we usually bbq pork steak ................... I marinate it in a soy sauce, ginger and honey marinade for upto 4 hours before it goes on the bbq. It's very tasty!



I was amazed back in 2000 when I stayed with my old school friend near Mudgee, NSW .................. she said we'd have a bbq, just the 3 of us.

She had this HUGE bbq that her husband had made, a flat piece of metal about 3-4' long and 18" to 2' wide. Heated by propane.

Granted, she was involved with catering for the Volunteer Fire Brigade, and they used to take this bbq along to fires so she could feed the firefighters.

Then she put the food on it .................. 2 kinds of sausages, small steaks, meat patties, chicken legs and thighs, veggies, peppers mushrooms, etc etc

I thought we wouldn't eat half of it




......... we ate the WHOLE lot!





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Hi Everyone,
Have finnaly made it back.
I am again in the same situation I was a year ago when I first joined you all.

I have been made redundant from the Dry Cleaners as my Boss has sold the business and the new Owners are not interested in taking on any staff.

So from mid May I will be jobless again, unless a Job application I put in last week is Successful.

OH was off work for a week on Morphine after he coughed and managed to break a Rib!!

So a warning to those of you over 60, be careful how you cough it can be dangerous for your health.

Looking forward to The Royal Wedding will get to see it 11pm our time and have a choice of watching it either on 2 of our local channels or I can watch CNN or BBC on cable, at this stage have decided to watch the CNN coverage which is being commentated by Piers Morgan, I find The BBC to be to stodgy.

Prince William is very much liked in NZ, recently he came to NZ for the Christchurch Memorial service and he went out and had a walk round and spoke with a number people who had lost their homes in one of the badly damaged suburbs.

He Said how sorry he was to one Lady who took his hand and said " don't worry Love it wasn't your fault"

He also went and visited personally with the families who lost loved ones in the Pike River Mining Disaster that happened last November. Before heading to Queensland and visiting those devastated in the Flooding.

He has done a lot by his visit to re- kindle a respect for The Royal Family that has been on a wane since Diana's Death.

Am munching on the ears of my chocolate Easter bunny, when I should be making myself something healthy for lunch. But what the Heck !!

Happy Easter everyone, take care, catch you all later Josie

Oh Josie - never rains but it pours - i am sure there is something better for you round the corner.

I have to admit - i keep thinking that as yet my corner hasn't arrived - but i am sure yours will.

Well back at work again - feels like I haven't been away.

We had a very nice time away - spent too much money (we didn't have) - but needed a splurge - we spent the day in Windsor on Wednesday & felt like real tourists as we arrived in time to watch the changing of the guard.
Which was fun as not seen it before - we were going to have a look around the castle but saw the price £16.50 each - just could not justify the cost for us both. It is so much more touristy than when I last visited which must be over 35 years ago - brought a tear to my eye as I visited with my mum, I know she would have loved it.

The hotels were lovely and I have a few stories but will have to leave it for another day - could not live that lifestyle all the time. All i woudl say is if you could put the 1st hotels food at the 2nd hotel - it would be the perfect place to be. The food at the 2nd hotel left a bit to be desired for both of us.

Well better go - Hope everyone had a good Easter

Take care all

Well, it took me a long time to get back here.....lol Hope you all had a good Easter anyway.

Josie, lovely to see you again but sorry about your job. Are you thinking of going for the same type of job or something different this time?


When my OH had heart surgery many years ago, he had to hug a cushion or pillow to his chest if he was going to cough or sneeze. Might be an idea for all over 60's to carry one round with them....just in case.....:)



Glad you enjoyed your break Anne........I think most people feel the same when they come back from holiday - time goes so quickly.


Off to the hospital with OH tomorrow for his regular check with the Parkinson's nurse. Am always relieved when it is over and done with. He's doing pretty well to be honest but it is beginning to slow him down now :( However, we take each day as it comes and are grateful for it.


Take care all...........Cx


Windsor is a lovely place isn't it? I think we have to admit that no one can beat the British for pomp and pagentry. Can't wait till Friday.........easy meals, glued to tv........hope it all goes well for them.