Buckle stabilizing retina called ‘excellent’

The “buckle” holding the retina in place on my left eye the past 30 days looks “excellent,” Dr. Ali Zaidi announced Wednesday. What’s more important, my vision has improved, and there’s hope for more improvement before I’m to get a new corrective lens prescription, following a detached retina operation Jan. 22, 2010.

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Eye “balling” new game for aging vision

     Got me a built-in “jelly” toy for my left eye. It’s about the size of the pupil, you know, that part of the eye that we say is the color shade of blue, green, or in my case, brown.

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Steroids Pushed as Far as the Eye can See

     I’m hooked on steroids. And no matter what I do, my doctor won’t let me get off of them.

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EFT raises a son’s job aspects, a dad’s hope

     Nick got the job.

     He’ll be working as a busboy at Houlihan’s Restaurant at the Plymouth Meeting Mall outside our hometown, Conshohocken, PA, here in the USA.

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Seeing is believing in ‘letting go’ process

     Where are those spectacles? I carried them with me for nearly two weeks. Kept them in my jacket pocket, the right pocket all this time. Now that I need them, they’re gone.

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Stop the presses, stop depression, stop!

     Stop! Don’t tell me anymore. Don’t want to hear it.

     Keep the news to yourself. It hurts me, it’s always bad.

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Laser pain – small price to pay for vision

Originally Cont’d  From Eye surgery burns the bravest resolve 1-17-10

     Anyone facing a detached retina medical procedure must learn to deal with discomfort. A patient will be in store for short bursts of pain that get progressively more difficult to deal with around the eye.

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Blindness Warning Wraps ‘Round Wrist

Originally Cont’d from Bubble battles detached retina’s blinding 1-16-10

WARNING: Handle this detached retina eye patient with more care than he handles himself. A Bubble in his eye could explode. Now wear this bracelet until we say otherwise. (And stay off airplanes, for Heaven’s sake!)

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Bubble battles detached retina’s blinding

     A green wrist band announces to a Good Samaritan that, should I fall ill or be rescued from some accident, that I have a “Bubble” in my eye.

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Driving too fast to slow thru a lens hazard

(Don’t Try This at Home, Kids)

A contact lens done me in. I tried to insert one in each eye while driving behind schedule to get to a meeting Saturday morning.

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