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When I moved into this house in 1976 (first owner), it suddenly became rife with roaches. Couldn't understand why. Then someone suggested bay leaves. Never had a single roach since then. So great not to have to use poison in the house.
I presume eucalyptus leaves would work too, but then who wants eucalyptus flour...
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Right, I don't like the smell of Vick's vaporub. Prefer roaches if they behave like good borders.
So back to the eyes -
Big improvement in my left eye vision today, eight days post the long second surgery. Wheeeeeewwww. Girl is happy.
CI, I've meant to ask you about your left eye but have been highly self preoccupied. The DMV lets you drive? I guess they give you a driving test and you can pass it by using right eye, eh? How did you lose the vision and was it a hard time getting used to it?
My left eye has been in the legally blind range for a few months while I waited for the surgery - I could see with it, but not as well as required, though they did extend my license because of the right eye being ok. This business this last week has been on another order than that I experienced before, as in Nada, mere fuzzballs in bright light. Yuck.
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Osso, let me understand you, in eight days you're going to have the catarak removed from your right eye? And why do you say it will be a LONG operation. Is there an anticipated complication that I've forgotten?
JL, you're all confused.. did I do that?
The cataract was removed in the first surgery, back on the 15th. I had a bad reaction to that surgery, with a little piece of my old eye lens going off back to the eye hinterland.
Had a second surgery, rush rush to hundreds of miles south, because of staggeringly high eye pressure, and that was now eight days ago, on Sunday morning, the eighteenth.
The eye pressure has pretty much, but not completely, stayed down since surgery two, but the vision has been pretty cloudy all this time, since almost four hours of surgery brings a lot of inflammation, and so on, plus lots of glare.
So, now, today, the vision is measurably better. Things are good. (Not to get all cocky about this, but healing seems to be going on...) Thus, you see me happy...
(One of my old friends used to exclaim, "have you ever seen me happy?") In this case, I'm really happy.
(On the right eye, it'll need cataract surgery too, but not for a bit - sometime later this year.) I might wait until after the a2k san francisco meet in early april. The second surgeon says the same thing is unlikely to happen twice. (heh!) I'm going to worry about all that later. (signed, Scarlett O'Hara).
My right eye, thankfully, is pretty good, so I get to drive. My left eye has been "legally" blind (lazy eye) since childhood, so I've gotten used to it. When I close my right eye, I can see things, but really have great difficulty. When I was in grade school, the doctor patched my right eye to see if it would improve my left eye, but it became too dangerous crossing streets, and unable to read for school work. The US Air Force let me enlist with my bad eye. It's good enough to be able to see the effects of 3D movies, but bad enough that my vision would be nil without my right eye.
CI, my left eye has always been way worse too. Amblyphobia or some such name they give to the disparity in vision between the two eyes. I am glad the left one was the center of all this present attention, I'd probably be berzerk if it had been my best eye.
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My left eye has the peculiarity of adjusting to light much slower than my right. When I step outside in the sunlight, it's like coming out of a movie matinee into the blinding light. But not my right eye. I asked my opthamologist to give me an understanding of what is happening. He just brushed it off as some kind of ideopathic quirk. So I just live with it.
By the way, since we're sharing info about ailments, my right shoulder which will someday undergo surgery has hurt for over a year due to inflammation (rotator cuff tear), but the pain has all gone. Someone suggested the anti-inflammation spices/foods, tumeric and ginger. I've been eating a lot lately, yellow rice (brown rice with tumeric) and crystallized ginger. The latter is delicious. And the inflammation/pain is gone, even better than after a round of acupuncture. Osso, you might try this form of ginger for the inflammation in your eye. There's a lot of sugar in it, but I soak the bits of ginger in warm water to get rid of some of the surface sugar.
Good night all, I'm pleasantly sleepy all of a sudden.
Sounds delicious...
both sleep and turmeric/ginger.
We used to eat candied ginger when we were kids all the time. I still love ginger, and always put it on fish when my wife serves it. She hates ginger.
Mornin' all.
Dear Scarlett - it was nice to hear from you!
Is there a good chinese restaurant around, ossoB?
I'm addicted to the ginger/garlic/green onion/sesame oil many of them offer with their simple chicken dishes.
mmmmmmmmmm, ginger
Hey, some very good news, Osso! Yay!
I have two kinds of ginger in my refrigerator, at hand... crystallized and pickled. Plus turmeric in my spice drawer.
(This reminds me of those "cook from what's in fridge" threads...)
The inflammation is fading in any case, a big relief.
Interesting to hear, Jl, that ginger/turmeric are helping your shoulder..
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Osso, I reported the "coincidence" of my beginning to consume fairly large amounts of "candied" ginger and tumeric and the decline of my shoulder pain. His comment was merely "whatever works". He was suggesting that while there is no proven medical causality it COULD be the cause of my loss of pain. YOUR decline in pain was expected by your doctors. Right?
Ebeth. Yeah. Green onions, garlic, ginger, soy sauce, sesame oil, would make a dead vulture delectable.
