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Post by channonite on Sept 25, 2022 8:53:09 GMT
I am vertical again, but only have about 25% sight in my left eye, but it is getting slightly better each day.
First off there are a load of threads to read through, then work on the website, but MrsC is watching me like a hawk & I dare not overdo things on the first day.
Saints Women are away to Bristol today, so I should be able to at least listen to that.
The sun is shining and I am going for a walk around the garden. That's a big deal after the last week!
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Post by Sir B3na1i on Sept 25, 2022 9:15:54 GMT
Good to see you back. Hope the recovery continues well
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Post by spot51 on Sept 25, 2022 9:39:24 GMT
Plymouth v Ipswich on TV at lunchtime Channers. Aren't the Pilgrims your 2nd team? Or 3rd if you include Women's teams?
Scotland dropped Che last night (Dykes did score twice off the bench last time). Stu played for 70 mins or so. Beat Eire 2-1 and now need just a point from Ukraine in Krackow on Tuesday to replace England at the top tier. Poland has taken in over 1M Ukrainians so it should be a proper away game.
With the high jumpers covered up till next year I now have the hots for Galadriel in The Rings of Power (don't we all?) However, I'm also finding Bronwyn the Healer interesting and it turns out she is that Persian actress that got littered up with Tom Cruise and his Scientology loons BITD. Doesn't seem to have done her any harm. She is 42 but doesn't look it. Have followed TRoP religiously each Friday but fallen behind with House of Tit & Bum. Watched episode 2 yesterday (in the absence of football) and it was rather better than the opener. Good to have when all the internationals are on bloody Premier Sport.
Lovely day here so I'll be out with Der Hunds sooner rather than later.
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Post by threehundred on Sept 25, 2022 10:24:36 GMT
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Post by OneBeat on Sept 25, 2022 11:36:36 GMT
Good to have you back channonite. Sadly the Saints Women's game isn't on the FA Player, so I'll be listening too. Int will be a tough game today, Bristol City are now Top of the league, but hopefully last week's performance will have given the team some confidence. I went to a gig in Portsmouth last night, it was so good. I loved two of the four bands, but my bandmate was down from Scotland, so it was great to see him, and also my bestest buddy came down from Norfolk, and we were all there together. It's a strange venue, downstairs it's a typical pub, showing sky sports, with a few Portsmouth fans singing their songs round the pool table, and up stairs it was full of us freaks watching two anarchist bands put the world to rights and having a right good time. Lots of friends, lots of smiles and lots of noisy nonsense. It seemed like the singing football dans downstairs were trying to look hard and threatening with their faces screwed up into scowls, but the punks upstairs were just having a fine old time with big smiles on our faces. Right, I need tea. |
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Post by THE BEAST on Sept 25, 2022 12:18:45 GMT
Glad you are back channonite, we have missed you Hopefully that eyeball will keep getting better… Fingers crossed (but not eyes obviously) |
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Post by channonite on Sept 25, 2022 14:02:55 GMT
Plymouth v Ipswich on TV at lunchtime Channers. Aren't the Pilgrims your 2nd team? Or 3rd if you include Women's teams? Good call, thanks! Just watched Argyle beat Ipswich 2-1 to go top of the league. With Saints Women now, they are now my 3rd team.... |
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Post by melrose on Sept 26, 2022 10:48:14 GMT
Good to hear that you are up and about again and you got the right treatment and are on the mend.
A good friend came round yesterday with news of his wife's fought last few days.....
On Tuesday she noticed something in her eye/vision on Wednesday it was worse so she went to Specsavers - They took one look and said there are tears and you need to get to hospital now. So she went to Hinchingbrooke - our local - outpatients - where they said just floaters, nothing wrong we can see, but we'll go through the results and get back to you if we need to.
Luckily another friend of ours is an eye surgeon - so they gave him a call. His words were that you may as well go to the vets as Hinchingbrooke and to get over to Addenbrookes in Cambridge asap. So went Friday morning went to Cambridge where again they took one look and it was surgery for Friday afternoon.
Turns out that the vitreous lining to her eye had detached and disintegrated (which is why HB could not see anything apart from floaters!) - and had to be drained and replaced. They have put a gas bubble in her eye to keep everything in place but she has now to spend 45mins out of every hour wearing a special mask with her head between her knees for a week or more until it all stabilizes.
Still no word from Hinchingbrooke, and according to the eye surgeon she would have lost her sight by now if untreated.
This is not the first time my family or friends have been saved serious injury or death by happening to know the right people and have gone to the right hospital.
Frightening. When my sister was still high up in the NHS she often told us that HB was a death trap and if anything went seriously wrong, Get to Cambridge asap. Seems nothing has changed.
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Post by channonite on Sept 26, 2022 11:29:30 GMT
Good to hear that you are up and about again and you got the right treatment and are on the mend. A good friend came round yesterday with news of his wife's fought last few days..... On Tuesday she noticed something in her eye/vision on Wednesday it was worse so she went to Specsavers - They took one look and said there are tears and you need to get to hospital now. So she went to Hinchingbrooke - our local - outpatients - where they said just floaters, nothing wrong we can see, but we'll go through the results and get back to you if we need to. Luckily another friend of ours is an eye surgeon - so they gave him a call. His words were that you may as well go to the vets as Hinchingbrooke and to get over to Addenbrookes in Cambridge asap. So went Friday morning went to Cambridge where again they took one look and it was surgery for Friday afternoon. Turns out that the vitreous lining to her eye had detached and disintegrated (which is why HB could not see anything apart from floaters!) - and had to be drained and replaced. They have put a gas bubble in her eye to keep everything in place but she has now to spend 45mins out of every hour wearing a special mask with her head between her knees for a week or more until it all stabilizes. Still no word from Hinchingbrooke, and according to the eye surgeon she would have lost her sight by now if untreated. This is not the first time my family or friends have been saved serious injury or death by happening to know the right people and have gone to the right hospital. Frightening. When my sister was still high up in the NHS she often told us that HB was a death trap and if anything went seriously wrong, Get to Cambridge asap. Seems nothing has changed. God, that sounds horribly close to my experience, except I seemed luckier that the doctors in the eye department at the Royal United Hospital in Bath seemed a bit more switched on. Bristol Eye Hospital was just hyper-organised. I had to spend four hours after the op face down, with my head on a pillow, then a week of not looking down - ever and lying on my right side to allow the gas bubble in my eye to hold everything in place. I still have the wrist band to say that I can't fly and can't be given Nitrous Oxide. Eventually the gas bubble will be absorbed apparently. Have to go back for a follow up appointment a week today and have been advised not to drive - No shit Sherlock! You are right though about it being horribly down to chance these days. I was lucky. The thing that gets me is the advice to go to Specsavers. I will definitely go back to them when I need to change my glasses, which presumably will be when me eye eventually heals. |
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Post by melrose on Sept 26, 2022 11:59:38 GMT
Yep - Spec-savers got some nice chocolates and wine for that.
But it is sobering that they immediately knew what was wrong when the hospital didn't have a clue. Apparently the difference between good and bad hospitals here can be almost first world vs third world. I don't know how that can be but it seemingly is.
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Post by spot51 on Sept 26, 2022 16:09:28 GMT
Yep - Spec-savers got some nice chocolates and wine for that. But it is sobering that they immediately knew what was wrong when the hospital didn't have a clue. Apparently the difference between good and bad hospitals here can be almost first world vs third world. I don't know how that can be but it seemingly is. Whilst not as serious, earlier this year I got "something in my eye" and, in the past, a quick swill with eyewash would move it. But it didn't. I used eyewash 2/3 times a day but it still felt like I had gravel in my eye. Eventually I phoned the GP. When I finally got through to a living being I heard the receptionists talking: "Do we do eyes?" " Eyes. Don't think so." <Pause> " No. That is up the hospital He'll have to call 111." That was that. So no 2 minute drive to the surgery I can see from my house but a day long expedition to Newport with the dogs in the car and no shade to park in. Bollocks. So I kept using the eyewash and it got easier and after 3 weeks had completely recovered. I have, however, continued to use eyewash every morning since and have had no further problems. But when did GPs stop being GPs? When I was a kid, you could see your GP any time you needed to and they would sort out the vast majority of things there and then. I don't remember being asked if I wanted healthcare rationed and if they had done I'd have replied "feck right off!" The NHS is a safe under the Tories as the junior dormitory with Rolf Harris delivering Ovaltine. |
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