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Message 997561 - Posted: 21 May 2010, 15:07:45 UTC
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Remember this gurl?

Yah.......she did that...LOL.

Yahoooooooooo
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Message 997562 - Posted: 21 May 2010, 15:07:46 UTC
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Well, sometimes the truth hurts, Mark. Suck it up.

Decision time. Multiple copmuters or your health. Put up or shut up. It's your health.

Don't like it? Don't piost a sympathy thread to start with. Don't advertise it in other Seti forums drawing attention to it.

It is what it is.

Honesty (truth) is the hardest pill to swallow.
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Message 997563 - Posted: 21 May 2010, 15:09:10 UTC - in response to Message 997562.  

Well, sometimes the truth hurts, Mark. Suck it up.

Decision time. Multiple copmuters or your health. Put up or shut up. It's your health.

Take a hike, bud.
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Message 997565 - Posted: 21 May 2010, 15:20:53 UTC - in response to Message 997563.  
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Why should i take a hike? You've tried to get everyone to get out their voilins to play a sad tune for you, when you're suffering no more than most of us who co-habitat with you on these forums.

You want sympathy because you can't make a commonsense decision?

Uhhh, do i get my eyes fixed or run Seti?

Now that's not an Einstein decision. Don't tell me to take a hike when you can't decide whether to take the plunge or just sit on your ass waiting for people to reassure you and stroke your ego.

This isn't a flame. It's a genuine response to your posts about what to do. If your eyes were that important to you, you wouldn't have posted the rubbish to start with.

P.S. This isn't offensive, this isn't personal, this isn't a flame. It's the truth. Not poplular, but factual.
I run 1 computer, and it took nearly 2 years to save for it. Seeing my kids was more important. Let alone seeing in general.
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Message 997566 - Posted: 21 May 2010, 15:29:54 UTC - in response to Message 997555.  

Sorry, was only trying to help. Forget I said anything.
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Message 997569 - Posted: 21 May 2010, 16:02:25 UTC - in response to Message 997566.  

Sorry, was only trying to help. Forget I said anything.

He wasn't talking to you. See the post before your earlier one.

I'm with Mark on this one. It's an important decision, and shouldn't be muddied up with comments that don't concern the subject at hand.

Yes. Get the surgery, and I'd suggest going with the premium package. You've only got two of those puppies.
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Message 997573 - Posted: 21 May 2010, 16:07:40 UTC
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Mark I wonder if you may have something more than just the partially detached retina and now cataracts. You are way to young to just have them pop up. Normally they'd take years to develop and you'd be 65+ when you'd need the surgery.

Without knowing you well enough, I'd like to ask if you've ever been considered double jointed or had loose joints when you were young. Your joints would eventtually stiffen with age. I assume you don't have a cleft palate. But i bet that you are very near sighted.

The only other people that I've known that had early and rapid onset of cararacts are my dad, his brother, and sister.

Another thing you may have is tinitus. ringing in your ears. You may have attributed it to loud music. It's might just be hereditary.

My Aunt went through numerous retina detachments. you'll also remember that I mentioned previously my blindspot issue.

Now to the point. Perhaps you have something like Sticklers syndrome.

Of course I may just be wrong altogether and you can ignore this post


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Message 997576 - Posted: 21 May 2010, 16:21:15 UTC

Fayvitt - a well worn guidance from my youth and likely yours as well:

"If you can't find anything good to say about someone, don't say anything at all."

I find it a useful reminder everytime I have to remove my foot from my mouth. It keeps me from putting it back in a second time.

Perhaps reflect on the perception that your posts will be seen as unkind, and not as helpful as you believe them to be. We all have our limits and Mark has described his.

Surely you don't mean to kick a man when he's down do you? He's just asking for our help.

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Message 997577 - Posted: 21 May 2010, 16:26:23 UTC - in response to Message 997573.  

Mark I wonder if you may have something more than just the partially detached retina and now cataracts. You are way to young to just have them pop up. Normally they'd take years to develop and you'd be 65+ when you'd need the surgery.

Without knowing you well enough, I'd like to ask if you've ever been considered double jointed or had loose joints when you were young. Your joints would eventtually stiffen with age. I assume you don't have a cleft palate. But i bet that you are very near sighted.

The only other people that I've known that had early and rapid onset of cararacts are my dad, his brother, and sister.

Another thing you may have is tinitus. ringing in your ears. You may have attributed it to loud music. It's might just be hereditary.

My Aunt went through numerous retina detachments. you'll also remember that I mentioned previously my blindspot issue.

Now to the point. Perhaps you have something like Sticklers syndrome.

Of course I may just be wrong altogether and you can ignore this post

His problem is that his retinas are losing function, not that they are detached. As for Cataracts, some of it is genetic, some is exposure to the sun's UV rays and some of it is diet. In North Korea they have very young people developing Cataracts because their diet is so poor they are missing several important vitamins. The problem could be avoided with a simple low cost vitamin once a day but they don't have the money for that. So instead, the free world is sending medical teams in to remove the cataracts free of charge. When a team is in there they do hundreds of operations a day and when they are done the people give praise to dear leader for the return of their sight.
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Message 997578 - Posted: 21 May 2010, 16:35:01 UTC

dear leader


Ya gotta love the dear leader.

What with the price of cognac, gold faucetts, and shoe lifts these days he hardly has enough left over to afford the free health care coming from the imperialists.

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Message 997584 - Posted: 21 May 2010, 16:56:40 UTC
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Fayvitt

As others have stated - keep to the thread's point - and, having stated your position there is no need to repeat it-and-repeat-it ad nauseum.

Point made, now move on, like other do.
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Message 997585 - Posted: 21 May 2010, 17:01:10 UTC

i'm glad i wasn't born a follower.


You assume too much. Besides, we all follow something or we have no direction at all.

Personally I do contract project management. Leading is the whole point of it and usually within a group that questions why you are necessary at all (which is usually all part of the reason you are likely there).

Am I born a follower?

In any event, it still doesn't mean I should kick anyone, no matter their condition or their take on it.

It's their journey no matter how many have taken an easier, or more difficult one.

I congratulate you on the fortitude you have brought to dealing with yours and feel only fortunate that I've not had to face the same challenges as some on here have described, even on this thread. We all have our own mountains to climb one day.

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Message 997597 - Posted: 21 May 2010, 18:02:04 UTC

Thank you to those who have offered some positive input into my thread.
A pox on he who does not.

I have no family history of such problems, or reason to believe it is anything other than my own personal aging catching up with me. Others have wondered if I am diabetic.... I have not had a physical in about 6 years, but have never been diagnosed with anything other than high blood pressure.

As to my 'whining'.....
I suspect I have no more self doubt than many others would have if faced with the same problem.
I DO consider myself somewhat of scientist. That's why I question everything rather than just accept it like a mushroom. That's why I have 7 'extra' computers doing science on this project. That's why I am shutting 3 of them down.

And I asked for my peers' support, not some buttcushion trying to pad his own ego by posting diatribes against everybody else on the boards.

If I were a lesser man, I would red-x all of your posts, as this is MY thread, and I have the right to do so. But, I shall let your ignorance stand.
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Message 997607 - Posted: 21 May 2010, 18:41:51 UTC
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My Eyes......

My eyes have seen so much that they
are starting to fail me some these days.
They have seen man's glorious past
and many things I would not have asked.

My eyes have seen the light of day
and the darkest dawns that have come my way.
My mother's loving looks at me
and the deepest hatred from some who do not see.

My eyes cry all too often, loud, and long.
They wish all could hear and sing my song.
If you could look into them, long and deep
you would know a friend that you can keep.

My eyes are dusky, deep dark brown.
They can twinkle at you when I play the clown
or get steely cold when anger strikes.
Those eyes of mine, no others like.

My eyes forgive, for those of you
who do not share their sometimes simple view.
They understand not all have eyes
that are open to all which before them lies.

So though they may not easily see
little things before them so readily.
They are still open and can make me sigh.
For this world still is there before..

My eyes.

msattler 5/21/10
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Message 997651 - Posted: 21 May 2010, 21:34:39 UTC - in response to Message 997644.  

Hang in there Mark. Your real friends will stand by you.

Of this I have little doubt.
'S why I always come home to Seti.

Thank You.
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Message 997695 - Posted: 22 May 2010, 1:14:39 UTC

Had a nice evening......
Ran into some good old friends at the tavvy that I had not seen for years.
The kind that bring a cheer to your soul.
The best kind of friends. Not the kind that turn their backs at the drop of a hat, or who happens to be buying the next round. The real kind.

I don't really miss the tavvy life all that much.....
I spent way too many years of my life hanging out in the bars.
It served my at the time, but did not serve me well.
I shoot a mean game of stick, and drank for free most of the time. My friends usually gave me a kinda dirty kind of look when I walked in the door, because they knew who would probably hold the table for the rest of the night.
But, they were my friends.......the real kind.

So......if some of you might understand.
This is my tavvy now. And although I have a few detractors now and again....
I also have a lot of friends.....

And you are the real kind.


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Message 997713 - Posted: 22 May 2010, 2:25:27 UTC

I know who I am and am not.......



The reasons for my life are not given to some.......

Sometimes not even to me.....LOL.

But....I bull through life like there are no wall.

You see,,,,,,,,it's.......Tradition.........
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Message 997738 - Posted: 22 May 2010, 3:11:34 UTC

Mark, Id say get the surgery. And like others have said, find out what the upgraded implants are , and if the extra costs will be worth it.

I have a cataract in my left eye that they think is the fast growing kind. I will find out next month. It has allready affected my vision. I will have the surgery when the Dr. says its time. In my line of work I have to be able to read my micrometers and calipers or I have no job.

I know you will do what needs to be done. Best wishes.
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Message 997793 - Posted: 22 May 2010, 5:23:17 UTC

Like I told you before to Mark, my mom had it done, and she was so happy she got it done. It was WELL worth the time and money. Start getting stuff done now, the longer you wait, the more damage that could happen. Your kitties need ya bro.
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Message 997826 - Posted: 22 May 2010, 9:25:57 UTC - in response to Message 997738.  
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Mark, Id say get the surgery. And like others have said, find out what the upgraded implants are , and if the extra costs will be worth it.

I have a cataract in my left eye that they think is the fast growing kind. I will find out next month. It has allready affected my vision. I will have the surgery when the Dr. says its time. In my line of work I have to be able to read my micrometers and calipers or I have no job.

I know you will do what needs to be done. Best wishes.

Wish you well with it.

I will be talking with the HR people at work next week to see exactly what my insurance will and will not do for me.

This is expensive stuff.
The basic charges for the surgery alone are about $8,700......most of which my insurance should cover, less deductible. And that is for one eye. The other eye is a separate procedure, which I suspect the insurance company will consider a second operation rather than part of the first. Hence, another deductible.
And that is for 'basic' lens implants.....which only give you distance vision back. I need to see up close for my job....
The full range implants are 'out of pocket'. About $2,000 per eye out of pocket...and I don't happen to have deep pockets anymore.

And before some other idiot comes in here and blasts me for 'whining' about it...

Walk a mile in my shoes, bud. Walk a mile in my shoes.

I cry here in the forums now and again.....but, that is because I have friends here who seem to understand me most of the time. And I need the support.

You should be so lucky.

I'm gonna sort it somehow. Been talking to my dear ol' Dad to see if he can somehow help me out. Like James here, if I can't see, I can't work. As an electrician who wires fire trucks for a living, I need to poke little wires into itty bitty connectors all day long....

Right now it is becoming quite a struggle, as with one eye only, depth perception is nada. I have been adapting to doing some of it by touch...the way I hold the wire and the connector. Grasp the wire at the correct insertion length, and slide the connector up my finger to meet it. A little awkward, but it works. And I check every crimp by gently tugging on it afterwards.

If it ever gets to the point that I cannot trust my work, I am done.
Building fire trucks is a serious business, and I would never put some other person's life in jeopardy because I could not do my job at 100%.
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