I see (no pun intended) that there has been some discussion of vision in the LPTPW thread.

Well, the Kittyman went to the eye doctor this past Tuesday and got some bad news.

Most of you around here know I have been complaining about my poor eyes for a while now....my near field vision started to go away promptly when I hit 45yo...up until then, I had the eyes of an eagle. I have been needing a new scrip for glasses every 6 months to a year since then.

This last check up, the doc was still able to correct my left eye to 20/20, but could not get my right eye better than 20/50 no matter what she tried. So she gave me another test that she had not tried before. Optical Coherence Tomography.
She was looking for an indication of fluid behind the eye...what she found, she had not expected.



See that little line above the surface of the graph?
It's called an epiretinal membrane. I guess it's basically a thin layer of cells growing where they don't belong, and it's like you are trying to view everything through a piece of cellophane.
No apparent cause, no treatment, just hope it does not get too much worse. The only cure, if it progresses to the point that the eye becomes almost unusable, is a risky procedure called a membrane peel....they make a couple of tiny incisions in the eye, remove the fluid, and literally peel the membrane layer out of the eye. They then replace the fluid with something synthetic....
This all sounds very scary to me.

Has anybody else ever dealt with this condition?

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I have no experience with things like that. Will forward this thread to my lovely sister. She is an master optician and i hope, she can tell me something about it.

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Here's some info from Wikipedia

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Thanks folks........
I was just wondering if anybody had the same prognosis and went through the corrective surgery successfully.......

I am not a happy kitty right now.......

It's hard having to admit you are getting older.

I was alway bulletproof when I was younger.....nothing ever kept me down for long, there was nothing that ever happened to me that time could not heal or make right.

This is the first blow to my immortality....

No happy ending..........I remember visiting my dear Grandmama in the nursing home and having her cry to me because "the eye doctor said there was nothing else he could do for me"......she had cataracts, and they did not operate on 80yo patients.

I visited her often.

I hope it is many years before I become 'the one eyed Kittyman'.

I shall persevere.

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Sorry to hear this Mark. Hope it doesn't get much worse given the lack of available treatment.

On a positive note: Congrats on a week of continuous membership ;)

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Sorry to hear this Mark. Hope it doesn't get much worse given the lack of available treatment.

On a positive note: Congrats on a week of continuous membership ;)

Thank you Andy, my friend.
I am not coming to grips with aging generally.

One could see that as a good outlook on life.......not giving up.
One could see it as trying to escape reality.....hiding one's head in the sand.

I am not sure which posture I take right now......

I only know that I still see myself as that bulletproof teenager that rolled his '64 Olds into a cannonball and walked out unscathed.....

I guess that facing reality was never my strong point.

That's why I search Seti for something else to hold onto.

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Very sorry to hear about your eye trouble. Sounds like the 'fix' is a last resort drastic attempt for only after you have nothing to lose. Any improvement then is a bonus. Check up the success rates?...

Diabetes is listed as a contributory... Might that also include contributory effects from smoking? (Reduced circulation.)

Hopefully not a silly question: Are there any eye exercises or general exercises that you can do to help?

Now for a silly question: Do you spend many hours talking on the phone or a mobile?

And hey, you can look very distinguished with glasses!

Good luck,
Martin

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Very sorry to hear about your eye trouble. Sounds like the 'fix' is a last resort drastic attempt for only after you have nothing to lose. Any improvement then is a bonus. Check up the success rates?...

Diabetes is listed as a contributory... Might that also include contributory effects from smoking? (Reduced circulation.)

Hopefully not a silly question: Are there any eye exercises or general exercises that you can do to help?

Now for a silly question: Do you spend many hours talking on the phone or a mobile?

And hey, you can look very distinguished with glasses!

Good luck,
Martin

LOL, Martin......
I happpen to think that some some gurlys with specs happen to be very sexy......and ooh lah lah when they take them off..........

No, I rarely talk on the cell.......I may be borderline diabetic, given my mood swings, but have never been diagnosed as so......but I put myself though such changes with alcohol, and not eating for days, that it surely cannot help.

Thing is......I have been up for 48 hours now, and I am not wearing my glasses.......hmmmmmm. Must be squinting more........but the right eye is still borked.......

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I happpen to think that some some gurlys with specs happen to be very sexy......and ooh lah lah when they take them off..........

It's ooh lah lah when you can stare into each others eyes (all of them, and without the blurring effect of alcohol or whatever) and see the fine detail and patterns to be seen there... (and then take... ... ... ... ... ;-) )


Perhaps you need to head off into the wilderness or some retreat for a few weeks to help your character building? Jesus did that for a few years - don't recommend going quite that far!...

Whilst camping out 'in the wilderness', certain hapless souls never considered that there were no vending machines nearby, and that noone else was going to carry their 'special' supplies. Not much weight but bulky and smelly and instant death if brought into contact with others' food. There were some fun giggles on the trip. Shame it wasn't long enough to have pulled them off the weed completely.


Try a long scenic trek?...

Good luck,
Martin

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Well...I got my new specs today...............
They are soooooooooooo screwed.
The new scrip for my better left eye is perfect.
But the scrip for the declining right eye is poor at best....maybe the best that can be done. But it is soooooo out of synch with the left eye that I feel almost cross-eyed most of the time except when looking at things more than 3 feet out.
The focal lengths for each eye are not in step with each other....have to go back to the eye doc and see if she can have another go at it.
(Big kitty sigh.)

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

I have no experience with things like that. Will forward this thread to my lovely sister. She is an master optician and i hope, she can tell me something about it.

My sister told me, there are two kids of your eye problem. The dry and the wet one. Our dad had the dry one. He had to used vitamin eye drops.

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I have no experience with things like that. Will forward this thread to my lovely sister. She is an master optician and i hope, she can tell me something about it.

My sister told me, there are two kids of your eye problem. The dry and the wet one. Our dad had the dry one. He had to used vitamin eye drops.

My doc did not mention the difference....
Eye think...(dry kitty humor) that she may be talking about a different problem....macular degeneration....which is not quite the same thing.

In my case, the macula is not really breaking down.....it's just that a film of cells if growing over the top of it, occluding the clear transmission of vision.

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Sorry to hear about the eye problems Mark. I know where you are comming from. Like you I too was fearless and immortal. I took risks when I was younger that were, well fun back then, but just plain stupid from where I sit today. Like you I smoked for years. I did finally quit, cold turkey. All it took was a heart attack. Since, Feb 3 I have been trying to come to grips with the reality that I am getting older. Plus with the drugs that I will now have to take for years, if not for life. So hang in there my friend. We can continue living a productive and enjoyable life. We just have to put some of the life lessons we have pick up into practice.

Sorry to hear about the eye problems Mark. I know where you are comming from. Like you I too was fearless and immortal. I took risks when I was younger that were, well fun back then, but just plain stupid from where I sit today. Like you I smoked for years. I did finally quit, cold turkey. All it took was a heart attack. Since, Feb 3 I have been trying to come to grips with the reality that I am getting older. Plus with the drugs that I will now have to take for years, if not for life. So hang in there my friend. We can continue living a productive and enjoyable life. We just have to put some of the life lessons we have pick up into practice.

Thank you Carlos.......

It's not easy finally having to admit that life for me will not go on forever as I know it.......this has been the first blow to that reality.

But I shall try to keep the thoughts of Dylan in my head.......

Sung by Baez...........Forever Young.......
I shall forever be that stupid kid that rolled his '64 Olds a month after he got it. Went to the junkyard the next day to save a few bits off of it.... And never looked back or backed off.

But I could tell you them car stories again if anybody would like me to.

I shall be with the kitties 'till the day I pass.......forever young.

My wishes all go out to my crunching brethren.......
My thoughts they often wander, my songs I have often sung.
But no matter what my influence here,
I will stay.......forever young.

Only wish my eyes could....

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And may you all learn your place in The Circle of Life........
I have learned that my position is not all that important.......

Meow.

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Gotta go now........

cannot see to post anymore.........
Tomorrow........mebbe ....

If I can see.........

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Well, at least somebody can still see...........

'Can I see the Guitar, Biatch?'

Old commercial with Mr. Les Paul......Coors

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. . . 1. Don't do any surgery [you don't have to take MY word for that] though it is My advise

. . . 2. There are always the Alternatives [call] suggestion

and now, Be Well Sir!

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. . . 1. Don't do any surgery [you don't have to take MY word for that] though it is My advise

. . . 2. There are always the Alternatives [call] suggestion

and now, Be Well Sir!

Richard....you know my name....Look up my number.....LOL

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Or you can keep Beating Around the Bush.....
AC/DC....thank God they are starting to post in STEREO........LOL........

My thread.......I can go off course........

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