The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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caseydog said:
I have one thing that really throws a monkey wrench (a spanner for you brits) into the works. My left eye and right eye have different vision
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I´m slightly shortsighted in my left eye - and heavily longsighted (with added astigmatism) in my right eye.
Always wondered why my glasses were never on straight, but at an angle. Hefty right lens, thin left lens.
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caseydog said:
What kind of head injury did you have? Were you hit with a cricket bat?
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I hit my head hard on an external brick wall with a layer of plasterboard over it, so no cushioning (Grannie flat built onto the exterior wall of the house). It may as well have been the actual brick itself. Put myself into a coma for 13hrs, got a dent 10cm long and about 1cm wide, depressed by a few mm, in my skull that exists to this day and damaged my eyesight (including colour vision) hoping from a -2 to a -6 or -6½ overnight. Fortunately I'd had a routine eye test only 2 weeks beforehand so had a point of reference. It's eased over the years but the colour vision is still an issue. One eye sees more red than the other which sees for blue. I'm hopeless with purples! Love greens and browns which should explain a lot. It could have been much worse. Curiously though no stitches! Never broke the skin because of that plasterboard.
 
Windigo said:
Finally saw the pain specialist today. They didn't give me the regular pain doctor, but an actual anesthesiologist. And to my complete suprise, he prescribed buprenorfine stickers for as long as I need them because they are sure I have some for of reuma and they want me to be able to function.
I am blown away that this time I was listened to and actually prescribed something without even having to ask for anything. It was a very nice experience to finally have an understanding doctor.
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Wonderful!
 
caseydog said:
I have one thing that really throws a monkey wrench (a spanner for you brits) into the works. My left eye and right eye have different vision. My regular prescription glasses (that I rarely wear) are stronger on the left lens than the right -- by a considerable amount. My drugstore reading glass are the same in both lenses. That really is starting to mess with me at my computer.
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I've the same thing but I sort of survive with 'off the shelf ' specs. I've one pair of specs for reading and another for longer distance. The latter includes watching TV and more recently, driving. I don't like wearing them to drive but I realised it was simply unsafe for me to drive without them.
 
Morning Glory said:
I've the same thing but I sort of survive with 'off the shelf ' specs. I've one pair of specs for reading and another for longer distance. The latter includes watching TV and more recently, driving. I don't like wearing them to drive but I realised it was simply unsafe for me to drive without them.
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I'm the same. Reading glasses and "long distance" glasses. I generally wear the reading glasses when not driving or playing snooker. In fact, I leave the "long distance" glasses in the glove box of the truck.
 
Morning Glory said:
I've the same thing but I sort of survive with 'off the shelf ' specs. I've one pair of specs for reading and another for longer distance. The latter includes watching TV and more recently, driving. I don't like wearing them to drive but I realised it was simply unsafe for me to drive without them.
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I didn't have a choice. I failed the eye test when I renewed my driver's license. I had to come back with glasses and a report from an optometrist. Four hundred bucks for glasses that never leave the console of my car.

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SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
I hit my head hard on an external brick wall with a layer of plasterboard over it, so no cushioning (Grannie flat built onto the exterior wall of the house). It may as well have been the actual brick itself. Put myself into a coma for 13hrs, got a dent 10cm long and about 1cm wide, depressed by a few mm, in my skull that exists to this day and damaged my eyesight (including colour vision) hoping from a -2 to a -6 or -6½ overnight. Fortunately I'd had a routine eye test only 2 weeks beforehand so had a point of reference. It's eased over the years but the colour vision is still an issue. One eye sees more red than the other which sees for blue. I'm hopeless with purples! Love greens and browns which should explain a lot. It could have been much worse. Curiously though no stitches! Never broke the skin because of that plasterboard.
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Man, I don't want to be near you in a lightning storm. I got hit by a f-ing boat and floated in the water unconscious until some nice people pulled me out of the water and called 911. The next day, I took my wife to dinner (and freaked out some diners in the tables facing me). I looked like Frankenstein's monster, but I felt okay.

CD
 
I saw today that the pulmonologist has removed the test I was going to get in september, which was for an illness called CTEPH. That's the diagnosis I didn't want to speak about until it was confirmed, because it is so serious. But the test has been removed, because the results from the cardiologist prove I don't have it.. So yay! No terminal illness! :dance:
 
caseydog said:
I use the voice to type feature on my iPhone. Granted, it has its own problems, but it is way better than me trying to type with my thumbs.

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My problem would be waking up my husband who is lying in bed next to me sleeping late at night.
 
caseydog said:
I didn't have a choice. I failed the eye test when I renewed my driver's license. I had to come back with glasses and a report from an optometrist. Four hundred bucks for glasses that never leave the console of my car.

CD
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I’ve just spent $780 on glasses. Ok. I got fancy frames but my eyes had degenerated 5 points in one eye and 7 in the other since my last visit to the optometrist 6 years ago.

When DLS finished and I had to do a lot of night driving it was scary and when it was raining and dark I was in hell.

So much safer now.
 
caseydog said:
Man, I don't want to be near you in a lightning storm. I got hit by a f-ing boat and floated in the water unconscious until some nice people pulled me out of the water and called 911. The next day, I took my wife to dinner (and freaked out some diners in the tables facing me). I looked like Frankenstein's monster, but I felt okay.

CD
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Ouch. Always been lucky with lightening though have had a lucky escape whilst out on my mountain bike. I knew a storm was coming so tried to cycle home from work via the road, but a fatal road accident had the road closed and there was no way around for a cyclist. Being fatal, even cyclists were not being allowed through. Normally they would but not this time... so I headed home via the only alternative, the common, which is heath land and a nature reserve. Open wide spaces with 2 sets of high voltage power cables running through them. As I existed the woodland, turned into soft sand my speed obviously dropped and I had to go under these power cables. The storm arrived roughly the same time I did at the same place. I felt every saturated hair on my body stand up and turned to my left to see a tree less than 50m from me hit by lightning. I just kept hoping that there was enough rubber between me and the ground on my mountain bike (I seriously doubt that that's actually the case)... I arrived home a tad faster and more breathless than normal. Apparently I was white.

Hubby and I have also been rescued off a train by the fire brigade wearing life jackets in lifeboats before now...

We were the second train to fail to get through a certain section of rail line. The train in front coming towards us lost all power however we still had power, so were sent to rescue the passengers and staff off the stranded train as it was going dark. The waves were breaking over the sea wall and hitting the carriage, with water going down both sides of the carriage... sadly having electricity only actually made things worse because passengers stretching their legs got to walk passed us and realise that a) the doors were not watertight and b) that the train was already deep in sea water which they hadn't appreciated previously. The single step down on the inside of the door was full of sea water... we just quietened them saying the rest of the passengers didn't need to know and that it had been like that for several hours. It had, but what we didn't say was that it was still rising slowly. They didn't need to worry themselves about that.

(It was high tide, full moon and a autumn storm surge that caused the issue. For those in the UK, I'll just say the Dawlish Sea Wall.)
 
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