Eye Eye Eye!!!
Jan. 9th, 2011 04:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erastesmy eyesight is "almost" better. I've been operating without the occlusion full-time for about a week now, and although if I let my eyes relax I have double vision, if I focus I can push them back together again. I think it must be the glasses (which are vari-focals and I've never got on with them) to a greater degree, because if I use my eyes without the glasses there is no double vision at all (obviously blurry, because I have short sight) but when I look through the top of the glasses the double vision is there and I have to force my eyes to work together. I will point this out next week—although I doubt they'll care.
I got a letter yesterday saying that as I was too fat for the MRI scanner at the James Paget Hospital Trust, they had made enquiries as to whether there were any "open" type scanners that I could use. Apparently not. There are no open scanners ANYWHERE in the NHS according to the letter; a few in private clinics in London, but not ones that can be used by the Trust. GOBSMACKED.
So, what they are saying is NO FAT PEOPLE can have MRIs anywhere in England. That's nice. And not at all sizist. I suppose they consider that if they do get brain tumours it just helps lower the population. I mean – I'm big, I know that – but I'm not the fattest person in Britain!
God knows what happened to the idea of sending me to Newmarket to use the horse MRI. Perhaps that was a JOKE. Or perhaps I'm too big for that, too. I will be writing to the NHS directly now, because the eye clinic entirely ignored my last letter of complaint.
In other non-writing news:
Fable, my husband in the game (same sex marriage) asked me to go to bed with him, and amusingly the screen went black and my husband exclaimed that whatever I was doing to him was "rather nice." LOL! He's embarrassingly in love with my character, which is sad because i'm going to have to murder him soon.
Teeth: Gum infection still making me look like Hammy the Hamster (bonus points for anyone who names the show he was on, and double points if you can name other characters without Googling) but is less today – I'll make an appointment with the dentist next week. Stupid to be finally eligible for free dental care and not to get it all done. The only thing that concerns me is the Warfarin, but I've only had one bleed that lasted more than a few minutes, so perhaps it will be all right.
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Date: 2011-01-09 04:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-09 04:05 pm (UTC)::snort::
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Date: 2011-01-09 04:15 pm (UTC)I'm sorry about the gum infection. I think you've had more than your fair share of strife lately. But good news about your vision.
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Date: 2011-01-09 04:18 pm (UTC)So, what they are saying is NO FAT PEOPLE can have MRIs anywhere in England. That's nice. And not at all sizist.
Wow. That's repulsive. How can they deny MRIs to part of the population? I'm so sorry you're being treated this appallingly and I hope someone listens to your complaints.
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Date: 2011-01-09 04:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-09 04:23 pm (UTC)I couldn't find one for the UK. I'll have to ask what kind of MRI scanner we have at work cuz I've never heard of them not scanning someone because they were too big. (Dave's around 17 stone and he's had 2 MRIs without problem).
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Date: 2011-01-09 04:23 pm (UTC)It's my fault, I know I have teeth problems, just been putting them off, but that's my problem all round, ostrichitis.
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Date: 2011-01-09 04:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-09 04:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-09 04:26 pm (UTC)Good luck.
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Date: 2011-01-09 04:26 pm (UTC)Teeth>>> Tales from the River Bank? Tales of the River Bank? Didn't google too. I can see them...there was one with a captain's hat on but I can't remember names. Ratty and Mole? o.O
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Date: 2011-01-09 04:29 pm (UTC)(Lucius is watching Dancing on Ice - must get photo)
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Date: 2011-01-09 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-09 04:45 pm (UTC)Aw, bless Lucius. He's obviously hinting for a pair of ice boots? Well, 2 pair! lol. Imagine that. Puss in Ice Boots!
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Date: 2011-01-09 04:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-09 04:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-09 04:48 pm (UTC)Eyes sound better. Have you been offered prisms in your lenses? I have prisms which drag my eyes together and *make* them play nicely with each other. Means I can't have contact lenses ever again but does wtork well.
Gums - salt water rinsing!! but don't swallow it;)
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Date: 2011-01-09 05:00 pm (UTC)You might add that point to your arsenal of arguments if you start complaining in public fora.
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Date: 2011-01-09 05:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-09 06:52 pm (UTC)full colourblack and white.no subject
Date: 2011-01-09 07:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-09 07:50 pm (UTC)I've tried prisms, but they don't help me - and they told me that they wouldn't help the recovery, and as I have to be independent and drive and stuff, I needed to work with what I had!
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Date: 2011-01-09 07:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-09 07:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-09 08:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-09 08:53 pm (UTC)*((((hugs you)))) because he's very certain that his arms fit around you just fine*
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Date: 2011-01-09 08:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-09 09:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-09 09:14 pm (UTC)http://www.croydonmri.com/?gclid=CN2ZncCErqYCFQ1O4Qod00_DZw
They take referrals from the NHS.
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Date: 2011-01-09 09:17 pm (UTC)*writes furiously*
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Date: 2011-01-09 10:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-09 11:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-09 11:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-09 11:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-10 09:45 am (UTC)Good news in re eyes. *hugs*
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Date: 2011-01-10 09:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-10 09:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-15 12:34 am (UTC)This is your health they are fucking with and also your Dad's health - if you aren't caring for him, how is he coping and if the state has to supply healthcare, how much will it cost?
Get your MP on it.