Marvelous Monday

[Lilac]

Dee, I sure hope that your dd will use her recuperation time, for some much needed downtime. She deserves it.

[Harmony]

Ivy, my mention of DH's eye surgery was to tell Dee that he had the same surgery quite a few years back and it went fine. I posted it a couple days ago in pwyc. This thing in the eye looks a little like a cobweb (very small) and is called one thing when it's on the white of the eye, then called something else once it begins to encroach into the sight part. That's when they must remove it, and it's a judgment call how much to remove and how much sight to damage / leave in the process. There's a bunch of info about drilling out the "root" so it doesn't come back. I haven't noticed DH's come back and he hasn't said anything about any loss of sight. His was outpatient surgery. He was told it was from exposure to chemicals.

Sorry, that was a long story!

We're having fireworks here too. DDog is upset. She got under the desk again.

HAPPY NEW YEARS TO EVERYBODY!

I'm going to put my papers away for tonight. I did get the last report done.

[Ivy]

Harmony, Thanks for explaining the eye problem and surgery.

I'm interested in eyes because of my age-related dry-form macular degeneration, an epi retinal membrane on the left eye, which I can see through a pseudo hole in it, and the right eye has an adhesion, but there is 70% chance I'll never need surgery on it in my lifetime, my specialist said. There are cataracts, too, but they're not "ripe" enough yet to remove. So that's why I'm very interested in eyes. DD just told me a good older gal friend has something like retinal pigmentosa, or something like that and she's slowly going blind. I have a pen pal and her DH went blind from degeneration at age 24. He works, he rides on a tram or mass transit thing to get back and forth to work, and everything. I thought it was neat, one day, when she said they'd gone to a special museum for dinosaurs and she said in the gift shop, her DH was feeling the small dinosaur replica, and he was so surprised how this particular dinosaur was formed. It's neat to see the world through a blind man's eyes because they still see with their senses and I know, if I should ever go blind in my lifetime, it's not the end of the world either.

Also, I have a dear elderly friend, 97, who was diagnosed with dry-form macular degeneration at age 50, but when she turned 80, she all-of-a-sudden worsened into wet-form. Now it's very serious, she can't read very well, but she's still a dear, has a happy life, is encouraging, uplifting, and a real sweetheart. So she's still got the good disposition even though her sight's nearly gone. It's encouraging to me to know if the worst should happen, life really does go on.

And also, there may be a day when Barnes 'n' Noble has a talking Nook and there is Dragon for the writer part of me, too. It's better to be hopeful instead of hopeless.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!