I will have to restrict my time online for at least another three weeks
because my operated on eye is still changing and healing so I can not
be measured for new eyeglass lenses till that stops. So, another three
weeks of eye strain, lack of focus, and of tiredness, sometimes nausea
and sometime dizziness from those, as well as simply not seeing well
enough, so having to carefully pick my time and topics. In two weeks if
the eye is stable enough they can measure me for lenses, but if not
then another check in another two weeks will happen as often as needed
till the eye stabilizes after the bleb surgery that got messy in early
May.
Good news: last night which was two weeks after being off atropine
(after six weeks of using it in the eye) my pupils finally wound up the
same size. Earlier in the day the pupil size got stuck but it corrected
later. So, this is big bit of progress. My pressure is up to 7 in my
right eye now so I have a buffer after my "blow-out" but we had to buy
the pressure controlling contact (which is not for seeing through) in
case I drop again. Other good news if that keeping down the pressure
in my wrost eye also keeps it lower in my better eye which is handy w
glaucoma and changes my lens need since that eye actually has a bit
better acuity now, but that lens has to wait, too.
Acuity is still very bad; hopefully that will improve some. With a
pinhole lens the right eye actually feels good and I can see so much
more but it is actually important to force my eye so pinhole use is
only for testing so far.
Those who know me better know that I became a serious "elder"
bodybuilder in my forties and participated a lot in Mike Armstrong's
group back then, including at one point giving a coach info on belly
dancing moves for the limberness segment in the women's competitions.
The coach remained anonymous but told us to watch Ms Olympia that yer.
I figured it would be a minor competitor but then Lenda Murray (who was
still beautifully very natural then and the defending champ -- who won
it again that year) came out and did a telephone conversation routine
using the moves I had taught. WOW! NO ONE expected that and the hall
erupted in cheers and so did we in front of our television. The coach
confirmed soon after that I had helped with that by very privately
describing clearly how to do basic slow moves like pepper grinder,
figure eights, circles, etc. Anyway, I still lift but much less and
had to take the weight levels way down and still dance badly a little,
but I have now been told that I will not be able any longer ever do
seriously heavy lifting or seriously hard moves in other forms of
exercise. It would be too much of a risk for bleb leakage. So, I have
to find other ways to exercise that are fun for me to add on. These
days I exercise for two or more 20 to 30 minute bouts daily with both
eyes completely closed becuase tha rests my eyes and reduces my chances
of falling asleep withut warning from eye exhaustion. I am going to
miss moving serious iron. Oh, wel, time hits us all in diffrent ways.
Sukie (not a vet) Ferrets make the world a game.
Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.miamiferret.org/
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/
all ferret topics:
http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html
"All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow."
(2010, Steve Crandall)
A nation is as free as the least within it.
[Posted in FML 7833]
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