Posted on 12/13/2018 6:45:56 PM PST by george76
I’m fine, thank you. Never had another heart problem in Aug, 2009. Great doctors revived and saved me, great general medical care, great family support, and I’m a stubborn SOB who had a granddaughter to help raise, books to write, and a wife to take care of.
The doctors never did find out what shut my heart down - possibly a sudden salt imbalance - today I eat less salt in foods (which I had been doing since my first heart clog in 2002 (major clog but I walked into the hospital on my own).
Losing a lot of weight also helps keep the heart less-stressed and took a lot of pressure off my knees.
Thanks for asking.
Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Years!
I am happy for you that the reason for your pain was finally discovered and to some degree, remedied. We all have our limits, and it doesn’t do much good to recite acceptable rules of behavior when one in in agony.
If I'm broke,hungry and cold and the prize is a $10 million winning lottery ticket I just might do it.If the prize was a dozen donuts I can guarantee that I wouldn't.
For me,always a coward at heart,a dozen donuts is the equivalent of a life free of thick glasses.
I envy you for your courageous nature.
Without clicking on the link. This is what I read. I'm in agreement with metmom WITHOUT reading the rest of the article.
School of Rational Thought:
Why do you have the need to insult people?
>>I think the article infers that she was under extreme pain and depression from the eye surgery.<<
I think it implies it.
You definitely have to do your homework before getting something like that done.
My opthamologist here in Sacramento is one of the best with thousands of procedures under his belt. Ive been going to him since I was a kid so I was 100% comfortable with him. Even with his history I checked out about 3 other places here in town before going with my Dr. Ive been and continue to be very very happy that I got it done but I totally understand why some won’t do it.
I wore glasses most of my life — spent about 10 years with contacts but got tired of the care and feeding.
I have those glasses-scores on the side of my head anyway so LASIK (or even contacts) would look a little strange probably.
What finally made me do it was when I was about 90 miles away from home, I lost a contact and didn’t have my glasses on board. I might not have had any since I was a lowly state employee. That was in the early 00s.
My eye doctor told me I was a prime candidate a couple years before. I went through the screen process and put my flex spending to use.
The surgery was over before I really understood what went on if that makes any sense.
I’d give just about anything if there was a way to fix my eye coordination. Mostly it’s an internal thing. It’s been that way since I was born I think.
I’ve been to quite a few specialists and I confounded them. Sometimes I wear heavy prism glasses for reading. They help some. Other times they mean nothing.
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary (Boston)
The two finest Opthalmology centers anywhere.If *they* are confounded,there's no hope for you.
Maybe it is foolish but I was in thick, heavy glasses from the age of 6 or 7. I don’t understand what problems Ms. Starr had. My eyes were good to go about 4 hours after the surgery, though I had to wear protective goggles while sleeping for a few weeks. And maybe it was foolish but for 15 years I had practically perfect vision for the first time I could remember. I’m back into reading glasses now but my distance vision is still darned good. I think it was worth it.
You, likely unintentionally, made it sound like your wife was your problem.
It is “infers”. I may be wrong but never in doubt. Don’t make me redouble my post once again irregardless of what you think.
I know I am write, so they’re.
[ It changed my life so much for the better.
Being shackled with thick glasses or playing the contact lens game for most of my life was no joy. I was so near-sighted.
It’s held for many years, much to the surprise of the different eye specialists I’ve visited about my other lifelong problem. ]
my vision before lasik was so bad I needed to put on glasses to even walk around the house. It is nice being able to use the restroom in the middle of the night without fumbling around to find my glasses.
My vision went back to 20-35ish. but it is far better than the 20-800 it was before.
Lasik is not for everyone and much care should be taken to get it done at a reputable place and only one eye at a time.
Had Lasik done about three or four years ago. Would do it again in a second.
“I don’t know. I have had glasses since I was in third grade.”
Same here and I would agree. Eventually I got cataracts and got the basic focus at infinity. I am 65 with 15/15 vision. Lasik is temporary. The eye lenses change with time and there is no stopping it. Glasses are great at keeping things out of your eyes.
There you have it, young, affluent, bright, beautiful, yet so fragile she apparently would rather be dead and abandon her husband and innocent, needful children than have one little thing wrong in her life; namely, having to wear glasses. I won't judge her. Someone infinitely more fearsome than me will be doing that, and judging all of us, soon enough. All I will do is ask Him to please, please Father, have mercy on her poor tormented soul, and please forgive her.
Surgery is no joke. Things can go wrong. If it's life and death, okay, you're forced into it. Otherwise, think long and hard about it, and never for frivolous reasons.
I just had PRK surgery in August. I waited for over a decade to do a LASIK procedure simply because I was afraid of my eyes being damaged.
I had very nearsighted vision, <-8. basically I was legally blind without very strong glasses.
I talked to dozens of people who had their eyes fixed & decided to spend top dollar at the best place in the city for the surgery. They informed me it would take time to heal. It took much longer than I expected.
First PRK is for people with thin corneas or very severe nearsightedness. Instead of creating a flap in the cornea, the top layer of the cornea is burned off by laser reshaped & after healing 20/20 or better vision is established.
I was very disappointed for several months. The pain was very bad for the first few days & m vision took a long time to settle down. Healing took much longer than I had expected.
I am now pretty happy with the outcome. I need reading glasses, but I can see better than ever for far distances.
I would caution everyone that we live about an arms length from our eyes what with computer screens & phones.
Interesting statement from you. Have had others in my life need emergency retinal surgery so I can’t stress how grateful I am to both the great Opthamologist (Dr Espy) and the retinal surgeons.
After a lifetime of myopia and contacts, I’ve chosen not to get the corrective surgery, mostly because of cost but some understanding of the preciousness of eyes.
When you guide a blind person or one with a big white bandage over the eye, you see a universal reaction of fear in the eyes of onlookers who quickly stand aside to allow us to pass.
Most people I know who’ve had the surgery are doing fine. But I know two who suffered complications. As I’ve said, there is an almost animal fear that comes over people when confronted by loss of vision. I understand hiow a celebrity who obviously liked being in the spotlight would emotionally destabilze after eye surgery that went wrong. One must walk in her shoes to understand what happened. RIP.
Nobody seems to notice it here, but the LASIK she had done was a new technology called, ironically, SMILE. Look it up. Many people seem to have had problems with it.
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