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Your boy Laz needs your prayers.
This is what's going on | 3/8/2020 | By Laz A. Mataz

Posted on 03/08/2020 3:08:15 PM PDT by Lazamataz

As you may or may not know, I only really started taking care of the diabetes in 2017, though I was diagnosed in 2010. Even then, my control has been kinda bad. I sometimes see a blood sugar near 300, but I am getting better.

Some of my neglect has caught up with me.

Friday morning, I noticed I was seeing double when driving. I went to the doctor for a previous appointment, unrelated to this. I didn’t bother to mention this issue because it came and went, and I figured it was just eye strain or something.

Well, it got worse Saturday. My optometrist is open on Saturday, at 11AM, but I ended up calling the on-call doctor (they say to call if it is an ocular emergency. I figured this was close enough to an emergency.

So I got in touch with him, and he told me to come in right at 11AM, and that he would bump his previous person’s appointment, because this is serious. I came in, he looked me over (retinas, eye movement, prescription change). When he got done he told me what has likely happened is that one or two of the 6 major nerves, or a blood vessel feeding one of the eye muscles had either a stenosis (narrowing) or aneurysm (swelling). He would be concerned if is is an aneurysm, so we’d want me to get to my normal doctor)first thing on Monday in an emergency basis, and at his recommendation, to order a scan (CT or MRI) using angiogram / radioactive fluids so they can see what’s going on it there. So I will need to do these things to maybe get my eyes back to normal function.

There is a bit of good news – the optomologist said the prognosis for a recovery in weeks or months is pretty good, because my pupil function was perfectly okay. He told me the body will come up with new blood vessels to feed the nerve and the muscle that is in a state of palsy, and that if there is nerve damage, even that can be repaired. If it does not work out, that there are surgeries possible to repair things. Not sure that is a great option, I don’t see how they could correct that.

The level of double vision is extreme when I am driving, but near-in … looking at a computer screen … seems to be okay. If that deteriorates, I should be able to keep going by wearing an eye patch and using one eye.

Needless to say, I am terrified. The one thing I do not want to lose is my sight.


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1 posted on 03/08/2020 3:08:15 PM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: Lazamataz

Prayers


2 posted on 03/08/2020 3:09:44 PM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: Lazamataz

Praying...


3 posted on 03/08/2020 3:10:06 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000 (The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government...)
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To: Lazamataz

Prayer Up


4 posted on 03/08/2020 3:10:32 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Lazamataz

Prayers up Laz.


5 posted on 03/08/2020 3:10:46 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Operation Chaos is in play. Repeat, Operation Chaos is in play)
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To: Lazamataz

I hope things go well for you, but do we really need Pirate Laz?


6 posted on 03/08/2020 3:11:11 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Lazamataz

Hoping you have a fast recovery buddy.

Freegards!


7 posted on 03/08/2020 3:11:16 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Lazamataz

Prayers up, old buddy.


8 posted on 03/08/2020 3:11:17 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: Lazamataz

Prayers for you


9 posted on 03/08/2020 3:11:27 PM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: Lazamataz

Prayers up


10 posted on 03/08/2020 3:11:30 PM PDT by MadLibDisease (Proudly residing in Dar-al-Harb since 1959)
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To: Lazamataz

Laz, best wishes for you to get a handle on it.

I don’t know your age or weight, or other issues (and I’m not a doctor), but I’ve known of a few successfully managed and even regressed cases of diabetes among acquaintances. Listen to the docs, at least for a while, and my best.


11 posted on 03/08/2020 3:11:53 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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We’ll pray for you, Laz ...


12 posted on 03/08/2020 3:12:15 PM PDT by Ken522
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To: Lazamataz

Prayers here.


13 posted on 03/08/2020 3:12:19 PM PDT by antidisestablishment
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To: Lazamataz

Prayers for you, my friend. Please let us know how things go tomorrow.


14 posted on 03/08/2020 3:12:23 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Click my screen name for an analysis on how HIllary wins next November.)
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To: Lazamataz

Bigtime prayers, Laz!


15 posted on 03/08/2020 3:12:23 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: Lazamataz

Oh, Laz. Hunker down today and tonight. Rest. Sleep, if you can. It was wise of you to get it checked. You know we are all pulling for you, and want you to be okay!


16 posted on 03/08/2020 3:12:54 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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Hell of a time to need to go to a hospital, with all this coronavirus nonsense going on.


17 posted on 03/08/2020 3:12:57 PM PDT by Lazamataz (I died of coronavirus and all I got was this lousy t-shirt. And a coffin.)
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Best wishes for a speedy recovery. Do get this taken care of. Hard to render verdicts on hitability without being able to see.


18 posted on 03/08/2020 3:13:09 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Lazamataz

One question. How will you know to hit it if you can’t see it? So this is indeed serious.


19 posted on 03/08/2020 3:13:40 PM PDT by stoneyhll (If I am to err, let me err on the side of freedom)
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To: Lazamataz

You got this, Laz. Prayers just in case.


20 posted on 03/08/2020 3:13:56 PM PDT by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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