Just in time for me to go inactive come Monday.
But we’re doing ok. Trying to clear the floor of trip-hazards, and arrange things so I don’t have to bend over to get stuff.
Tomorrow morning I start the preparatory meds that I’ll continue afterward as well, and I plan to follow doc’s instructions and avoid problems.
yep, make sure you take those drops. One is usually prednisone, and you have to taper off with that, but I think you only take them for a week, IIRC. I had to wear a patch over my eye with a guard for the first night, then just the patch for the next night, and then pretty much nothing on the eye after that. Drops continued every day as prescribed.
I haven’t had any problems with either eye, it’s been 10-1/2 years since the right eye surgery and 4-1/2 years since the left eye.
I’m sure you’ll be fine, and things will go swimmingly – um, well, maybe not a good analogy with all of the rain you’ve been getting…..
Here’s hoping all will go fine and you’ll be seeing better than ever after it heals up.
Today, we’re having a steady, medium, soaking rain. Mildly chilly, and the rain is fine, needed.
During the night it was very blustery and stormy, though, and at one point, some neighbor’s metal something-or-other fell and startled the cats and I. I went outside, front and back, and didn’t see anything amiss. Haven’t been out this morning to double-check. I don’t think it was in my yard, but want to be sure.
When you’ve done with laying flooring, I recommend sitting with ample hot tea and a cat or two for foot warmers. 😀 I’m at my computer for a while, with the two in their usual spots in the office.
My prescription for a good outcome: Spend a relaxing evening stroking Seishi, have a pleasant night’s rest and go into surgery tomorrow thinking soothing thoughts about the successful outcome… Your attitude going in is probably the best predictor of success for surgery.
Thinking of you both. Best wishes for an easy surgery and frustration-free recovery. (())
I hope all goes well for the surgery. I am sending good thoughts your way.
Hoping you have the best surgical outcome, and a speedy and easy recovery. Also cooperative weather. Will be thinking healing thoughts your way.
We had a rather blustery storm last night, too, with T-storms and rain, and a cold front, with another behind it to hit midweek. Hope your weather is cooperative.
Sending good thoughts and positive vibes to you. I had both eyes done two years ago and I am so glad I did. It is a simple procedure these days, and you will be surprised at how well you see afterwards!
Lol—my evening, alas, is going to be assuring a trip-free path (not easy in a construction zone involving pulled carpet and lots of boards) between my room and the kitchen, the kitchen and the living room to my chair, to the front door, and, by the second doorway, back to my room. This is all I ask. No cords, boards, spare tools, scraps of carpet or flooring, buckets, or cat toys…. 😉
Snow is forecast for tonight and early tomorrow. But that’s no impediment to us.
best wishes….for me, the hardest part was the preparation. After that, everything was smooth sailing and a matter of just waiting for the sedation to wear off. My last surgery took 18 minutes from the time they wheeled me in, until they wheeled me out. The surgeon also acted as the orderly and pushed my gurney out of the OR…right into the opposite wall….yes, great surgeon, and a self-admittedly bad orderly…..we both had a laugh over that.
Is Jane going to try to continue working on the floor by herself, or will she be taking the opportunity to stand down a little? I tend to go full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes when I have my teeth into a project (which has sometimes led to some *ahem* interesting results).
I must see the quack tomorrow. The last several months have led to a full resurgence of my allergies, and the Allegra (now available OTC) isn’t helping the way it used to. I don’t really care what causes the cursed sneezing, as long as I can get it to stop. Nothing like having a violent sneeze attack when you are driving somewhere!
Don’t forget to explain to Sei and Shu that they need to stay out from underfoot, lest they be accidentally stepped on! Best wishes for a full and speedy recovery.
My sentiments as well, though the Aspie thinks it all froth because everything only depends on the Doc’s skill and no unpredictable “accidents”. What I expect is amazement! 😉 Good fortune anyway.
I suspect she’ll soldier on solo. I’ll be able to cook, clean the kitchen, and back the car out and put it in (so we can use the table saw) so I can be so some help. After a few days I can do more. My rule is, anything I have to bend to get, Jane has to come get, and no moving the 1600 lb fish tank until I get the all-clear for heavy lifting.
I’m amused at Jane’s reaction to an uncarpeted and pretty slippery floor—she’s sliding about on it, shoving furniture (we’ve invested in ton o’ felt glides and buttons) and doing everything but waltz with the cabinets. The cats are bewildered, but intrigued.
Give the cats a day and they’ll be using it as a skating rink batting their toys around. And then Jane will have to fish said toys out from under furniture. I don’t know why but we usually end up with a repository of toys under the stove & the fridge.
I wonder how long it’ll take Sei and Shu to learn that braking on a smooth floor goes better with claws retracted, using the pads of the feet? My first cat figured that out fairly quickly, but the new cat still hasn’t after 8 years of trying to use her claws and sliding…
Best wishes for the eye surgery. My dad had his done a few years ago and is very happy with the result; I hope yours go just as fine.
Mine used to like a very tightly packed ball of foil about pingpong ball size. Back when I lived in the duplex, I would hear the peculiar skittering noise it made on the tile floor. It was apparently quite satisfactory as a cat hockey puck. I learned the hard way never to give a cat a golf ball. They will keep you up at night bouncing it off the baseboards. I twisted some bailing wire into a kind of croupier stick — my getter-outerer. Perfect for fishing cat toys out from under furniture.
My parents’ photographs included one of the kitten/young cat (the one that was three months older than me) with a croquet ball. On a hardwood floor. (That didn’t last long. But the cat was clever: they belled it so it wouldn’t get birds, and the cat learned to move so the bell was silent; then it would sit motionless under the window at night, ringing the bell.)
@BCS, off topic, my nephew is doing his English homework and needs to find 44 different sounds in English. Have you still got that sound recording of the Charivarius poem The Chaos up somewhere? Could you post the link again, please?
@Hanneke – Hi! Yes, here’s the link:
http://www.shinyfiction.com/audio/the_chaos.mp3
He (and you) can find that under Odds and Ends, at the bottom right of my Audio index page:
http://www.shinyfiction.com/audio/
Note: When I recorded it, I misidentified and therefore mispronounced the name of the poem’s author. I should’ve pronounced it European style. — Your nephew could use this as an example of how speakers of other languages don’t always pronounce foreign words correctly. 🙂
There are around 46 phonemes in standard English. If he gets 44 or 46, he’ll be doing very well. That counts a few English diphthongs like OW and OY, by the way. You might discuss with him how English used to have, and lost, the CH/KH/GH sounds that Dutch still has. If he gets to learn about the Great Vowel Shift in English, or how the Norman Conquest changed English, that would be very good training. Hmm, there’s also the differences between American and British pronunciation. He could try listening to commercials or movie and TV clips, but that could be distracting.
I’d be curious to see what results he comes up with.
In my city, there’s a major road named Kuykendahl, and another named Stuebner Airline near it. Stuebner gets pronounced close to how it should be. But Kuykendahl gets pronounced several different ways. Locals (like me) grow up saying Kirk-en-doll. New arrivals from other cities will try Koo-ken-doll or Kigh-ken-doll. But no one tries a French pronunciation, and I’ll admit, I’m not sure how it’s properly said in Dutch. Is it like French U and German Ãœ? Or like French UY, ü+i: / EW-ee? Stuyvesant, here, would usually get pronounced Steve-uh-sant. And American speakers would probably have no idea what to do with Dutch IJ, which I understand is almost like English long I, igh?
Oh, and my own last name is regularly misspelled and mispronounced, even though it’s supposed to be English, from the northern English dialect near the Scots border. However, there’s also evidence that the name could be from an old German dialect or from Dutch. So my family name is unusual, even though it’s only one letter off from a few more common English names.
I should re-record that poem to pronounce the author’s name correctly, but it’ll be up as-is until at least the end of the year. Your nephew might as well hear it that way. 🙂 Have fun!
Thanks, BCS!
Kuykendahl is old and a bit Germanized spelling for modern kuikendal, meaning chicken valley. Kuiken = young chicken, chick (the stress goes on the first syllable, just like in chicken).
The ui (or old uy) diphtong is pronounced rather like in guy, the a-sound in dal sounds like calm, not like doll. Dutch dal (valley) may be related to the English dell, which I think means a low-lying place?
Dal (in Dutch) is probably related to either or both of the words, dell and dale in English. A dale is a valley, more broad. A dell is, hmm, my dictionary says it’s a small valley, usually wooded. English expression: over hill and dale; (A library branch near where I grew up was named Hillendahl Branch Library.) And “The Farmer in the Dell” is an old children’s song. My memories are clashing. “Hi, ho, the derry-oh, the farmer in the dell,” I believe is the chorus.
Kuykendahl is “chicken valley” ? Heh, those chickens had better be fast to cross Kuykendahl these days, it’s a major city highway. 😀
Thank you!
My impression has always been: if you can throw a rock or shoot an arrow across it, it’s a dell. If you’ve a mind to get on your horse, it’s a dale. The Yorkshire dales, as shown on “All Creatures”, were quite large.
Ah, I see there’s a Wiki entry for Dr. Gerald Nolst Trenité, but it gives links to something including an IPA transcription. Still, it’s really useful to know he was Dutch. 🙂
You’ll love the way the world looks after surgery! (I had both eyes done a couple years ago, and am so glad I did!)
Good luck with the surgery.