osso and her eyes, again

Listening, Soz. You know what a procrastinatrix I am. Which is to say thanks for the nudge while shifting my shoulders.

This fellow is both serious and civilized. I could say kind, but I don't want to elevate him to sainthood, I'm sure he knows better. But I've watched him for a while now, and he is kind and not in any sort of Ishouldbekind way. I've watched him, he, me, re our fairly long for doctors conversations, his note taking, and both of us listening. He'll near cross his eyes when I give him some lame conjecture and he'll elaborate on details that answer my conjecture - which I usually get, often immediately and if not immediately, on some thought, though I seem also to add to his take on things.

I'm no pushover for mds.

The guy who had the lens go flooey back in 2004 was someone I respected, but knew less about. As I said, I'm no md worshipper, I'm from research hospital life, and had friends who were surgeons.

Got to add this.

I know sons of bitches can be good surgeons.

I wanted to be an md and maybe or maybe not a surgeon as a teen in the fifties, and in my small family, this wasn't just shot down, even though I was a girl. As aptitude would have it, this wasn't my competence. I could make excuses, but I recognize that it wasn't my competence.

But I remember some of what there was out there about medicine in general articles, books, literature at the time, and seem to zone in on memory now about some famoso hospital patriarchs of the time. Anyway, I know from early reading and later from life that some questionable folks can be good technically and that kind folk can suck.

We'll see.

Oops, I just meant that this fellow is basically kind as an attribute. I don't judge his competence by that.

Switching off from any emphasis on my present situation, I'll talk about my time with the eminent guy at a university re my syndrome, or whatever you call it. What an annoying person.

Makes me laugh now, all of our meetings were a version of my talking with Mister Grump. I didn't fit patterns but qualified for trouble, as I understand it now. I don't think I ever saw him not grouchy. I may still request results sent there. Hey, maybe he's retired.

As an old research involved person, we used to pay particular attention to troubling results, and that sometimes worked out with useful information.

As it turns out, those folk sort of followed me as I'm outside of their usual groups, re RP, which is to say, within the non explaino group.
I suppose I should reconnect with them with my new address.

Well, I should give info to the university-of-old folks, and vice versa, to my present doc.

I see this kind of post as solipsistic, but I'll leave it here to get me to do the connections.

I thought it was interesting.

I'm doing the revisiting thing myself -- going back to investigate what might be up with my hearing. Not to fix, but just to find OUT already since nobody ever has figured out what happened or why. So would like to know, just as a matter of curiosity, but then also would like to know in terms of sozlet -- could it happen to her too? Seems unlikely, but that part makes me interested in getting more info. (Hasn't gone very well so far. The ENT I've seen had a one-track mind and that track was cochlear implants. He's not interested in diagnosis -- thinks things haven't changed enough since it was thoroughly investigated, and if they couldn't figure it out then, he won't be able to figure it out now. Ah well. I did get a new MRI, haven't discussed results of that yet with him.)

Do let me know if I can help you find anything, resource-wise, Osso.

Nudging a little. Any news on osso's eyes?

Not for a while. Stay tuned..

(Peers at screen)

I've been meaning to ask you if you know this little trick:

Press control and the plus sign at the same time.

Instant enlargement.

Works beautifully with google chrome, but pretty good with IE, too.

I've a mac, and I do use View sometimes to blow some tiny print up.

My right eye is presently sharp enough (that's the one to have the surgery), but the left, five years from those four surgeries, has waffled into fuzzier - apparently (from the md and my last talk) not all so much from RP, which has been in apparent steady state, nor glaucoma (steady good pressure readings), but from just that messing with the eye four times for a bunch of hours doesn't leave what I'll call good homeostasis, which is a general balance of metabolic goings on. The eye gets tireder, irritated by eyedrops' crud more easily, reacts badly to even mild poking, the odd eyelash, or dryness (best treatment, use hot wet washcloth over eye for a bit), and the lid keeps edging down (lax ligament or tendon, I forget which), while I can still raise it somewhat at will (though it slinks right down again). Meantime the surgeon for that has moved on. (Can't remember if I posted on that, but I'll have the lid fixed if the opportunity arises, depending on medicare paying and if I have sup insurance, somewhere down the line.)

The fear is, of course, that all this happens to the right eye.

I'll try with the Control and plus sign at same time - that could be really good to know. Back when I try it. But there may be some equivalent for Macs..

Nope.

Damn, osso.

My brother, who's a MAC user, introduced me to Google Chrome when he was her for my mom's 80th. He 's the guy who showed me the trick to start with.

I just experimented, and every time I hit Ctrl and +, everything on the page got bigger. I couldn't figure out a way to reverse it, and the font got so large I eventually just exited, and signed in again.

I'm wondering if it would be worth your while to try another browser. I added google chrome, but still use IE so I can easily check an extraneous email account through rogers/yahoo which is my home page on IE. Google Chrome shows you the top five sites you've frequented I think.

Just had another thought - nods to Soz, re checking old stuff. I know my optic nerve on Lefty was affected even before the surgeries on the eye (from glaucoma or rp? - it wasn't even glaucoma then, but intraocular pressure (IOP?), under 20, not glaucoma defined). Who knows, that nerve damage might have been from birth (remembe the blue baby) or some weird thing afterwards. What about Righty? I should ask my present doc, as the records/slides/reports got sent to him. Plus, if they weren't I should chase them down, as even doctors are getting older. But I know they were. In fact I remember signing something, that I knew that was the only slide. Thus I think it was only Lefty.

The good news is my present doc is someone who tunes in to what I'm saying, if only I think of what to ask.

I learned to hate IE. Am near trying firefox (hope to pay my bills online first - which I can't do until the third - in case I crash the machine).

Maybe Soz (Mac user whom I think uses firefox if there's a firefox alternative) will know. I may gather my wits, after bill paying, to check out google chrome too.

Opera has a simple tool on the botton right hand (A magnifying glass and a 100% sign) and an arrow next to it.

Clicking on the arrow allows you to magnify up to 1000% times.

You can also go down to 20%.

You shrink back just as easily (if you can see the little tool!)

The free version of Opera has ads, though.

Are you saying you have a Mac?


I am not sure if it runs on Macs, but you can download it for free (ads and all) and test it out.

I have tried Firefox, Chrome, Safari and, of course, IE....but have kept coming back to Opera.

For whatever the hell that is worth.

I will always listen to the bunny, no matter how much I try to filch carrot tops.

First to get past the bills. Some may remember, last time I got a safari update, I had Crashofulgentia. Which resolved by magic I still don't understand. I've yet to update again, so I remain in pause.

The burnt computer owner fears the fire.

If you do find a browser that it works on, pressing Ctrl and - on the number pad works perfectly to shrink things back down. Not sure why I couldn't find it last night. Tired I guess.