Went well. They use only a topical anaesthetic, no needles on the face, but they do give you an IV, and we had some procedural delays. The first patient’s surgery of the morning took just a few minutes longer than expected, then with mine, they decided they didn’t like the lens they were about to use and went after another, and then that confounded weak blood vessel in my eye that has periodically given me a very red (as in glow in the dark) eye during periods of stress, decided to pop, so they gave me some stuff to stop the bleeding, (unrelated to the lens itself)—which means I only have a third of the eye bright red, and not the whole eye dark red, as usually happens. It seemed the doc’s morning was off to a flying start of two unscheduled problems… but they pronounced the actual lens replacement as really good, no problems.
By the time I’d gotten out I was not quite as steady on my feet as on the first one, and I spent the whole day in bed, zoned out on whatever they’d given me. By evening I waked up. Took all my meds on schedule.
Went in this morning for a post-op check, and all is very well. I can see blues well with both eyes for the first time in years, and I have clear vision with both eyes—once the post-op swelling goes down, it will probably be really excellent with both eyes, and I’ll be able to use over-the-counter glasses for reading and computer work. Still a little red-eyed this morning, but no discomfort. Had a little raw feeling yesterday, but that was the drug they administered to slow down the bleed. THis morning that sensitivity’s gone, and I’m feeling good, if still tired…couldn’t have ANYTHING to do with the last-moment push to get that floor done, oh, not at all…
Floor is of course on hold until I get the clearance for heavy work.
But all is well.
Glad it went well. If you’re like me you won’t need glasses except for reading. I don ‘t need glasses for the first time in 60 years!
Congratulations on successful surgery, and best wishes for a speedy recovery! One hopes that the floor is at a point where you aren’t concerned about tripping over incomplete sections or pieces left scattered about. The latter, one would allocate more to the cats.
I’m glad it went well, and wish you a speedy recovery. Please take care of yourself and give it the time it needs, don’t overdo things too soon.
Well done and thanks for letting us know how you are getting on. Take care and all the time you need before returning to the floor!
Glad it went well. Now make sure you take it easy….
“then that confounded weak blood vessel in my eye that has periodically given me a very red (as in glow in the dark) eye”
Pro’ly reverting to the Typhon up in your family tree. 🙂 🙂
Seriously, good to know you’re out of it fine.
Say, maybe you should consider a Halloween costume with like a half-helmet with some embedded tiny blinking LEDs, and a piece that comes over one eye with a bright green LED, now that you’re half cyborg?
Guess my avatar can’t stay too serious for long. 😉
Lol—it does scare small children.
Apollodorus says: “In size and strength he surpassed all the offspring of Earth. As far as the thighs he was of human shape and of such prodigious bulk that he out-topped all the mountains, and his head often brushed the stars. One of his hands reached out to the west and the other to the east, and from them projected a hundred dragons’ heads. From the thighs downward he had huge coils of vipers, which when drawn out, reached to his very head and emitted a loud hissing. His body was all winged: unkempt hair streamed on the wind from his head and cheeks; and fire flashed from his eyes.” (Wikipedia)
While doing other things, it seems to me this wouldn’t be that hard to do! Start with an old bicycle helmet, perhaps one too small with the padding inside, which would be ripped out. Hacksaw most of one side off, just leaving the central piece across the crown. Superglue pieces removed from the rim over the front of the eye to hold the front green LED. Paint it black. Get a CR2032 battery holder–a propane torch to the back side of a defunct motherboard would provide that. A local industrial salvage place around here has a supply of LEDS. Look through the salvage, find a little tube to mount the front LED, maybe with a small focusing lens to make a beam? (Not wanting a laser here!) A little pretty easy electrical design work would power a variety of LEDs. Yeah, this is doable!
Might be able to just tape the battery with its contacts in place. It isn’t like that’s a big heavy one. (see, for example, the throwies at Evil Mad Scientist, or some of their other Halloween quick projects: http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2013/roundup-led/ )
“We are the Borg. You will be assimilated.”
Very good to hear all went well and you’re doing better. This is great news.
Get some rest and feel better. Favor the newly fiddled-with eye.
But if you feel like writing…or gaming…heheh, have some fun. 😀
Glad to hear it went well.
It’s always sumthin’! Very happy that the complications were easily taken care of and that the actual operation went smoothly!
Here’s to a peaceful and joyous 2016!
Whew! I know you’re glad it’s all behind you, and all you have left to do now is heal. Piece of cake.
If binocular vision kicks in, be prepared for dizziness and headaches. There might also be some clumsiness and disorientation.
My aunt stopped washing her white curtains after she was retrofitted with lenses. My mother doesn’t do white curtains, but says the whole world looks cleaner, and actually is, now that she can see what’s dirt and what’s not.
Speaking of dizziness, those of us of a certain age can be subject to BPPV, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, and should be acquainted with the “Epley Maneuver”.
I awoke one morning looking at the window beyond the foot of the bed, and everything appeared to be constantly sliding down and to the right! 😮 I thought it was a stroke! 😮 Fortunately I had none of the “other” symptoms, and it went away as soon as I got up. But I’m still somewhat susceptible, and do the maneuver myself, if less effectively, when I feel dizzy. It usually helps.
The trick the doctor here taught my dizzy friend is similar but less complicated. Sit on the side of your bed, then let yourself fall over onto your side, on the mattress. Lie still for a bit, sit up again, let the dizzyness settle again an repeat the manouvre, three times on each side.
According to him, this dislodges the ‘sand’ stuck in the holes of the sieves between the three loops of the balance-organ behind one’s ear, that impede the flow of liquid from loop to loop, and thereby causes the discfepancy between what that organ senses and what you see and feel from other motor-senses, which is what causes the feeling of dizzyness.
No problems. Both eyes are working together and the brain is very glad to find each side’s input is matching up nicely with the other and both sides are happy.
“My side! Your side!” — Stark, Farscape. :grins:
One is exceeding tired. One has been drawing font glyphs since about 7 am with three or four short breaks, including brunch. Whew. Too punchy to do more on these for a while today.
I put in work on another couple of font ideas, one new on Jan. the 4th. Going well, pleased with it. — But I’ve realized the terminals (where the serifs go on serif fonts) have three or four different methods I’ve been following, while getting glyphs drawn. Hmm, that’s a stylistic problem. So I have to settle on a single design method that works best for the look I’m going for and redo all the therminals. Heh. This is what happens when a sudden insight or inspiration about the overall look strikes in the middle of getting the basic glyphs in, and getting various shapes in so they look good. I don’t mind revising, I just need to decide what the look I want is and how to get it drawn practically.
Meanwhile, in the middle of deciding if it would have both serif ans sans-serif series, I think I may have come up with an intermediate that is a differnt approach than what I’ve seen. The end result is going to look quite a bit different than the initial idea. This is, I hope, a more original approach and therefore more attractive to designers and general font users. We’ll see. It’ll percolate while I go back to the main projects I’ve been working on.
I’m very happy from a creative standpoint, but my budget / income needs are really hampering that. I feel like I’m finally back to what I should have been doing with my life, professionally, but dang it, I have to be able to outlast the lack of enough income until I get things out there, past the submissions review process and out there for sale to the public. It feels very strange to feel so happy about the work I’m doing, yet to be so anxious about the income and budget situation.
Sticking with it.
Oh, and the previous idea appears to have settled out on one approach for the Roman and another for the Italics. This is good, once I can get to it.
Hah, in with that mahen translator and symbols kit would need to be a software package for both sides to translate font formats between the two species, or to create fonts from scratch if none were available from a computing device. That sort of thing would also give the human and atevi translators a few puzzles.
@BCS – Fonts are one of those things that have unexpected consequences!
I found a book in my college library that made this point by presenting a paragraph of different texts, i.e. news, fiction, scholastic, casual, in different fonts, e.g. TNR, Century Schoolbook, Helvetica, Garamond, and listing the different impressions subject readers had of various qualities of what they were reading, e.g. authority, veracity, comfortableness, classiness(sp?), etc. I found it just short of amazing and very interesting.
I used to use Arial and then found it wastes ink/toner…now I use Calibri….
Fonts: one of those subliminal things that make a huge difference to conveying information, but most people are largely unaware. [Like muzak and aromatherapy?]
CJ: Best wishes for a speedy and completely uneventful recovery!
Glad the second surgery ended well. Now it is time to rest.
Welcome back to blue! <3