WHAT MADE YOU GRIMACE & GRIT YOUR TEETH TODAY?

Thank you for your concern, Jane, ci & margo.

I went to the doctor this morning & his assessment was that my hideous red eyes will not impair my vision. No serious damage has been done. And the redness will vanish in roughly a couple of weeks. So no treatment of my eyes is necessary.

However ... being a very systematic sort of doctor, he focused on what might have caused the problem. Anything from violent sneezing, coughing, plus any number of underlying conditions. Including high blood pressure.

So he did the standard BP test & yes, my blood pressure is higher than it should be. But not in any "danger zone" .

The upshot of all this is that he is sending me off to receive a number of blood & other tests .... and has given me a bit of a pep talk about not having these sorts of tests done routinely.

I should receive some feedback next week when he receives the test results.

Glad to hear it's nothing serious with your eyes. (I worry.)

Waiting for the test feedback.

ack

too many new posters who can't seem to respond to another post without quoting the whole blinking thing

I want to reach through the screen, grab a few of them and whack their heads together.

Sounds like you could use some fresh air up Tarana way...

ha

at work, fresh air is the code for going out fer a smoke break

Olga,

I somewhat worry you are not seeing an ophthalmologist. Being freaky me, I would do that, and I'm sorry I didn't mention it before. Even if all that red goes away, two weeks?, I don't like it happening, and you don't want it going on again. I think it would be good to have a short consult.

Your neighbor doc couldn't have - I highly doubt - checked your eye pressure, as the device to do that is not inexpensive, and eye pressure is different from your blood pressure. Correct me, natch, if I am wrong, but I thought, wtf, re he took your blood pressure?

I don't mean to scare you, I just think you need someone whose knowledge is heavily about eyes, for if not now, possibly re future access.

Not to overstate the obvious, but try walking forward from shopping.

Can't, roger. Antipodes.

Forgot. My bad.

Both of those posts, by the way, illustrate the importance of punctuation.

Can Roger irrelevant.

Strongly advancing eye pressure and blood pressure are not related. Apparently people with continuous hbp can have intraoccular pressure (IOP) but that's a long term change if sustained. Apparently your neighbor doesn't understand that.

But high eye pressure can occur from injury.
I'd like to see you get checked.

How is eye and Msolga?

Eye pressure, until it gets terrible, isn't noticeable. (trust me)
I am assuming you are fine, Olga, but I'd like you to connect to more expertise.

I got connected to the strange and wonderful funded clinic Dys and Diane went to, mostly Dys, forty or more miles away. Anyway, I made an appointment at their place, so someone could check my eye pressure, this back when I first moved here. Ha ha, no one there knew what I was talking about. That was my ignorance, re equipment available. Really bad ignorance, in retrospect.

I did connect to the clinic of theirs on this side of town, but otherwise try to get to UNM. Thus, I'm now waiting for six weeks to see my clinic doc to recommend that I be seen at UNM dermatology fast for what I take is either a strange freckle or melanoma mid my right palm. If I wait for UNM, sans intervention, it's into January..

I know, melanoma can present on palms. But, so what?
To go to emergency - average wait something like 24 hours, last I read. I'd do it if I thought it might be useful.

Please, no self-diagnosis. You don't know it's a melanoma until a medical person tells you. I have suspicious looking stuff on me. Told by docs that they're nothing to worry about.

That's a long time to wait and worry. I'll be waiting and worrying with you. Hope you can find another source that will see you sooner.

Yes, I think I will do that, osso.

Thank you for your concern. You, too, Roberta & Deb.
And roger & patiodog, sorta.

I've just returned from the Pathologist's.
A 5 minute walk down the street in the opposite direction from my place to the doctor's.
I think when the doctor said I was way overdue for tests (& gave me a polite pep talk about being rather casual about these things), he really meant business!
I have had blood samples taken for testing for every ailment known to woman & man & have experienced my first ECG of my life.

Good to be back home again & finally have breakfast, after my 15 hour fast.
Wholemeal toast with a generous spread of raspberry jam & a big mug of tea.
Yum! I needed that!

So back to the doctor next week when the results are back.
I do hope there are no nasty surprises!

Meanwhile, eye#1 is clearly up very nicely & eye#2 is still astonishingly creepy looking.

what exactly does pathologist mean where you are?

here (perhaps very regionally) it is standard shorthand for forensic pathologist. One doesn't ever return from a visit there.

The place where one get such tests done, ehBeth.
That's what they're called here.
eg
http://www.mps.com.au/

I can assure you I'm still alive after my visit!

How interesting. Fascinating how differently the same words are used.

The father of my best friend in junior public school was a pathologist. He was also the county coroner. He had the goriest books - we loved to look at all the photos of bizarre disease processes when we were little. Now I wonder what the parents would have thought if they knew what we were studying so avidly in Dr. C's den.