osso and her eyes, again

Can you get it into a "fixer" place

But, wait..

I'm still very happy as in I can't believe how renewed. Still wild about my new vision.

I can deal with a computer crash or two.

Remind me, I've seen a bunch of new stuff on arthritis, no link at hand. Check the NYTimes.

Computer's been swell for a whole day.
But must be attended to, as the mishugas is starting again.

I'm not driving yet, though could, seeing as I do better out of the glasses from a few times past, so far. Did I tell you about the grocery store? I have had trouble, given the disparity between my near and far vision plus the rightie cataract, seeing in the grocery store for a while. Bunch of raising glasses to see close and never seeing the far end in clarity.
Now I can see the far end again. Talk about small favors. My old bifocal and trifocal glasses are peachy, some more than others.

I remain happy, even if my computer plotzes.

Also, Iz, I just read a good article in the new yorker about nightmares, and thought of you. No link at hand.

Sound so mucbh better Osso - very positive... not just for the laptio technology to click in!!!!

if you find the link, let me know,appreiciate it.

Thanks

N x

It was a fabulous article. I'll investigate.

Thanku - off to bed shortly, will be checking on. Sleep well Osso. x

Fabulous, listening to myself, I do tend to burble, but I found it covered a lot of territory.

It was by Margaret Talbot, A REPORTER AT LARGE. Nightmare Scenario.
Learning to rewrite our bad dreams.

Now, whether I can connect you to it, I don't know. I'm a NYer subscriber, so I may have more access.

eh, the usual abstract thing, particularly lame in this instance -

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/11/16/091116fa_fact_talbot

I would mail you the article, but, alas, I had a water spill the night I had one eye, and inundated 4 new yorkers with Gerolsteiner mineral water, and never mind that, couldn't read them then with a magnifying glass. I could still mail it, but there are top of the page bits missing. (I read it today, easily, except for the top bits.)

hmmmmm.... actually - that last bit was quite interesting

One of the newest theories about the function of nightmares comes from Ross Levin and Tore Nielsen. Their view is that dreaming may serve the adaptive function of “fear memory extinction”: desensitizing the sleeper to something scary through repeated exposure in a less frightening context.

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/11/16/091116fa_fact_talbot#ixzz0ZZ9UjIRz

I saw a psyhcologist (actually seen 3 folk in total re that, but won't bore you with that) about arachnaphobia (this was 25 years ago) - a lot of my nightmares were about spiders <can write word now without feeling sick, no probs> and he wished me to do the desensitising psycho stuff with me - which, of course, explaining to me at that stage I would eventually be in room with a large spider ensured that I did not return to see him. Of course, being in Oz I desensitised a little but still have my moments of ick now, especially on my own. But.... going back to folk suggesting nightmares are serving as a desensitisation <is that a word> ... well, hmmmm... interesting theory. I nightmare in the day, never at nite with the sleeping potion I take, REM comes all at once in the day and is nasty. Too scary.

sorry, don't mean to derail this thread - just waffling on here...

(i wish there was someone on A2K who knew about medicine interactions and dreams/nightmares - I have some questions and dunno who to address them to privately)

Just on another note - from another thread....this made me laugh very loudly a while back



that's what I do at night after taking the potion..... no excuses of having a dodgy keyboard - I read back in the morning what I wrote and just despair at my incoherence!

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I think I may need to add that to my sig line - LOVE IT

"unft-dy-oof" - could be the "b" side of kum-ba-ya.

Osso - cooked your lemon chicken for the in-laws yesterday. Had to beat them away from the door when I told them what was cooking!

That whole article is really good if you can get ahold of it from a University Library or some other library with a good selection of magazines from around the world. I was not so taken by the desensitization thing but the way one can gradually work the nightmares to be 'friendly', a whole different tact that I'd not heard of before.

I should do that again myself (not the miss-typing) but the lemon chicken. Did you butterfly it or use chicken pieces?

soooo nice to read this

Ditto

Butterfly. Twas a tad under 5lb in weight so I gave it an hour and twenty (my gal is picky about chicken being well done).

Joining in the vision-smiles.

So, today Butrflynet took me to the clinic with similar results from check up number one - doctor happy, me happy, come back in a month for the wind up. I can now put my head down below my waist - you'd be surprised how often that comes around in daily life, picking up something from the floor, for example. I can now rub that eye, though not of course super hard. Hell, I'm free to weed the garden, dammit.

The eye is still healing - a month from now will be the time to figure any new glasses prescription. I'm still wildly thrilled, thinking of starting painting again. I could even make out stuff on tv way at the end of the hallway with my glasses on.

We talked about the possible lefty eye surgery, fixing that lazy lid, and the tests to see if medicare will pay for it as it must not be for cosmetic reasons. He is thinking I'll test ok on its usefulness. So, meeting that surgeon/specialist will happen in early March, perhaps the testing on the same day - two visual field tests, one with lid held up, and one with the lid in its usual low mode.

Met a possible friend just after me in line for the doc - a retired person from UNM who I immediately got along with. Sorry I didn't get her name and phone number.

Saw quite a stream of patients from the time we got there to leaving..
there was a policeman with his 'prisoner' in handcuffs, the cuffed guy seeing the doc just before I did, the policeman going in with him - glad to see he got the care. A two hundred year old lady trying to catch up with a man helping her into the clinic. A young guy and his apparent grandfather with a blind type cane. The sorta chic woman I mentioned before. Families with one member seeing the doctor. What a day he must have.

When did you last paint, osso?

I started here again in New Mexico but didn't get very far with it... some kind of inertia. Got new canvases, etc. I do best with a set up easel and some painting at some stage up where I can just stop what I'm doing and go play with it.