Re: The Eye Conditions Topic
@12: Indeed, Ive been told by consultants my vision was stable and wouldn't get any worse, then it just dropped off a cliff, each of my consultants I saw just told me oh eat X Y and Z to manage the pressure. Fortunately I actually like most of the foods they suggested, but just managing the pressure, Really. Is that the best they can do? (Admittedly, I did go in for cycolodiode laser thingy surgery....I don't remember the details but I remember looking out my bedroom window and not leaving my bed for a day and hiding in a dark room)
Credit where it's due, my local NHS trust haven't put a foot wrong....well, actually, lemme clarify that.
The doctors, from the very first consultant who put me into cryotherapy and has often told me I have a claim to fame as either the first or one of the first people in the country to be put into cryotherapy to save my other eye (though I dunno how true that is, I just toss it into conversation), and the past few consu ltants I've had have known their stuff....though the actual management of the hospital, holy crap it's been shoving from pillar to post, sending out appointments then in the same letter telling me oh I have to wait 3 months for one, so I book a vacation and halfway on the road I get a call oh hey, come in tomrrow for a test.
Again. I can't fault the doctors, nurses, ph arm acy techs, researchers into glaucoma....my issue lies with the middle managers and the way my local hospital is run, That, and the fact they cannot, for love nor money, attract a glaucoma specialist. I had my laser diode whatever it's called surgery done by a specialist who went to anotheer NHS trust and does the name Dr Mr Annand ring any bells, as I've run across his name on papers.
He was extremely friendly and professional and reassuring, so credit where it's due to him, but when he ame in specifically to do a weekend surgery the nurses there treated him....from what I hard, like crap, least, the youger ones. I got up to go to the toilet and I got shouted back to my bed by a nurse in training, it took a doctor who heard me explaining to basically tell the trainee nurse that yes, patients are actually allowed to go to the toilet if they are supervised. Which meant, humorously, II had a doctor outside the bathroom door. I had my brother come in from the States at tha t time to keep watch on me and he asked me, quote; Why do you need to take a piss test, you been on the roids again?
(Fun fact: I did, actually, legitimately get given steroid injections. Which made it all the funnier...nurses had no idea what we were laughing about, though admittedly....)
Okay, Gripe 2 with my nurses, or rather the hospital. My grandmother was a nasty piece of work and made the entire hospital's lives hell, so when I went in, I overheard a ew nurses talking about me behind my back and snidely asking oh hs he related to that horrible old bitch. Exact, freaking. Words. I flagged down a senior nurse and told them. Next thing I heard was a lot of arguing and about professionalism.
Also, for some insanely funny reason, I managed to befriend the hospital chaplain and debate religion with him. CoE ordained minister debating religious stuff with me, over toast and a cup of tea...and speaking of, I got a running joke in that hospital from the older nurses that I needed a loyalty card that entitled me to a free plate of toast and a cup of hot tea...I was not happy when they ran out of hot tea nd gave me decaffinated tea. Ew.
So...yeah, it's sort of off on a tangent but I wanted o add it to the topic.
Also, for the colors thing that I noticed, I'm actually asked a lot by my parents what color would go good on this room, what do you think of this carpet and so forth. I'm frogging blind, what do I care? (Acutally, I care a lot since I can picture what a room looks like, and I can make out light/dark/etc), and I've always argued that you should open a room up more with colors/painting and suchlike, ya know?
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