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R. Linda:
SO here we go, the DRAGON had in past visits done some things that drove me up a pole. Besides the usual crap she shovels in me direction, there have been times she says something I think she purposely throws me way, that give me a great deal of pause. Here are a few examples. We were driving home from somewhere when she reads a sign that said: PANCAKE BREAKFAST HERE then underneath the date and time. Well, she read it out loud as PANCAKE BREAKFAST FAIR. "What is wrong with you people you hold fairs in the honour of pancakes?" I was like what? Then there was the time we were watching some telly programme and she says, "Gosh whoever filmed this liked brown, everything is tinted in that colour." I looked and I didn't see any brown tint. Then there was the time we pulled up at a light and she read the ticker tape advert thingee that this particular town has on it's green, directly across from the light. It said: Buy Infused Water at Homestead Grocery. She read this as buy "confused" water and wanted to know what exactly "confused" water was. Then another time at the same light, the ticker read, 20% off at Alan's Tool and Die, and as we pulled off she said, "Who's Alan and why do we care if he was a tool and died?" And one more, there was the time it read: 24-Hour Banking and she said, "24-hour baking? Who'd bake for 24 hours?" UGH the woman!
Come to find the colour mistakes, the misreading of signs, were because . . . oh let me use her words "When I close my right eye I can't see a thing, it all looks like I am standing in a cloud of thick smoke." She had a fully ripe cataract in that eye so it was no wonder. Geez. So she went for her pre-op appointments and then had the operation. I learned there are three different lenses that one can choose from. The $800 old fashioned one, the newer $1000 one or the top of the line $2300 crystal lens. Well, we be talking Dragon, so top of the line she went, because "One can't ignore the best when it is one's eyesight at stake."
The operation came and went, easy it was said she, they numbed her entire right side of her head (I do wonder if they numbed her brain too) and she said she had no clue what her right eye was doing because she couldn't feel it. That has to be a weird sensation I should think. Anyway, bandage off the next day in which she complained they ripped half her face off with the tape, and oh my gravy, as she says, she could SEE and the odd thing was that the new lens made everything so bright and sharp she wanted to get the other one done. Oi!
So now that it's been a few days she's bored because she can't do some things. Here is what she wrote Tonya: "I went to the eye surgeon yesterday and he's happy. I'm not, I want the stitches out because they irritate my eyelid. But he said no, maybe in a month. And maybe just one stitch. I was like WHAT? I take four sets of drops and the dilator burns my eye but he wants me to keep using it for two weeks to make sure the lens stays in place. The downside to this is I can't lean down, I can't jump around so basically I can't do much of anything. I had a case of the klutzies yesterday and was dropping things and I had to wait for people to pick them up. I got tired of that so I've learned what armless people do and have trained my toes to pick things up. Life sucks. The new marble we ordered for the seasonal room arrived. It's a lot bluer than I remember. I kept looking at it wondering if they sent the wrong tile, but they said no, the numbers all match. I bought new tile for the laundry room and I thought I bought marble tile but turns out it is porcelain. I could have sworn it was marble, but no and it's already down. Too late to do anything, but my eye wasn't good and who knew I mistook one for the other. Not happy. And here's another thing, if I close my left eye and look out of the new crystal one, everything has a slight bluish tint. When I close that one and look out the left one, everything is darker with a green tint. I scared myself looking with my new eye at my just brushed teeth and almost blinded myself from the dazzling reflection in the mirror. I was so stunned I closed that eye and looked with the other and my teeth looked yellowish. I don't know what to think, I have no clue what color my teeth are. I also noticed that people of color have a purple hue to them on the TV, but if I look out of my old eye, they look well, black. I dunno what to do about this."
Well, me either and ask me if I care? Geez the woman!
Gabe
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R. Linda:
SO here we go, the DRAGON had in past visits done some things that drove me up a pole. Besides the usual crap she shovels in me direction, there have been times she says something I think she purposely throws me way, that give me a great deal of pause. Here are a few examples. We were driving home from somewhere when she reads a sign that said: PANCAKE BREAKFAST HERE then underneath the date and time. Well, she read it out loud as PANCAKE BREAKFAST FAIR. "What is wrong with you people you hold fairs in the honour of pancakes?" I was like what? Then there was the time we were watching some telly programme and she says, "Gosh whoever filmed this liked brown, everything is tinted in that colour." I looked and I didn't see any brown tint. Then there was the time we pulled up at a light and she read the ticker tape advert thingee that this particular town has on it's green, directly across from the light. It said: Buy Infused Water at Homestead Grocery. She read this as buy "confused" water and wanted to know what exactly "confused" water was. Then another time at the same light, the ticker read, 20% off at Alan's Tool and Die, and as we pulled off she said, "Who's Alan and why do we care if he was a tool and died?" And one more, there was the time it read: 24-Hour Banking and she said, "24-hour baking? Who'd bake for 24 hours?" UGH the woman!
Come to find the colour mistakes, the misreading of signs, were because . . . oh let me use her words "When I close my right eye I can't see a thing, it all looks like I am standing in a cloud of thick smoke." She had a fully ripe cataract in that eye so it was no wonder. Geez. So she went for her pre-op appointments and then had the operation. I learned there are three different lenses that one can choose from. The $800 old fashioned one, the newer $1000 one or the top of the line $2300 crystal lens. Well, we be talking Dragon, so top of the line she went, because "One can't ignore the best when it is one's eyesight at stake."
The operation came and went, easy it was said she, they numbed her entire right side of her head (I do wonder if they numbed her brain too) and she said she had no clue what her right eye was doing because she couldn't feel it. That has to be a weird sensation I should think. Anyway, bandage off the next day in which she complained they ripped half her face off with the tape, and oh my gravy, as she says, she could SEE and the odd thing was that the new lens made everything so bright and sharp she wanted to get the other one done. Oi!
So now that it's been a few days she's bored because she can't do some things. Here is what she wrote Tonya: "I went to the eye surgeon yesterday and he's happy. I'm not, I want the stitches out because they irritate my eyelid. But he said no, maybe in a month. And maybe just one stitch. I was like WHAT? I take four sets of drops and the dilator burns my eye but he wants me to keep using it for two weeks to make sure the lens stays in place. The downside to this is I can't lean down, I can't jump around so basically I can't do much of anything. I had a case of the klutzies yesterday and was dropping things and I had to wait for people to pick them up. I got tired of that so I've learned what armless people do and have trained my toes to pick things up. Life sucks. The new marble we ordered for the seasonal room arrived. It's a lot bluer than I remember. I kept looking at it wondering if they sent the wrong tile, but they said no, the numbers all match. I bought new tile for the laundry room and I thought I bought marble tile but turns out it is porcelain. I could have sworn it was marble, but no and it's already down. Too late to do anything, but my eye wasn't good and who knew I mistook one for the other. Not happy. And here's another thing, if I close my left eye and look out of the new crystal one, everything has a slight bluish tint. When I close that one and look out the left one, everything is darker with a green tint. I scared myself looking with my new eye at my just brushed teeth and almost blinded myself from the dazzling reflection in the mirror. I was so stunned I closed that eye and looked with the other and my teeth looked yellowish. I don't know what to think, I have no clue what color my teeth are. I also noticed that people of color have a purple hue to them on the TV, but if I look out of my old eye, they look well, black. I dunno what to do about this."
Well, me either and ask me if I care? Geez the woman!
Gabe
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