Stormy Weather II

[cloughie]

Looks like a scorcher today!

Misty start but beginning to show blue and looking very promising.

[oddoneout]

A lovely summer day, wall to wall sun, and warm - broke through the up 20 barrier. Good news for the various events on this weekend, and fingers crossed that the Bank Holiday is fine as well - visitor figures at work could do with a boost for an event day - we haven't been too lucky so far this year!

[BBMmk2]

24C today!

[cloughie]

Bluing up after a misty start.

[Lat-Literal]

A wonderful day for doing a spot of gardening, smashing your head into a tree and having a sharp needle puncturing your temple.

I am advised by the medical centre who I had to visit that the swelling should go down after a week and if there is anything really serious I will know within the next 48 hours. All very weird - never seen so much blood occur and disappear within seconds. It's also on the same side as a long term eye problem which I now suspect is the start of retinal detachment.

Happy days.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

If my own experience of retinal detachment is typical, you won't have "long-term" symptoms, Lats. You'll notice flashing lights in the corner of your vision (as if somebody's taking flash photography just over your shoulder) when you move from a dark to a light environment (or vice versa) - and probably a lot more "floaters" and/or black dots in the affected eye. Very important, if you see a "shadow" (rather like the "blind spot" that happens if you look at a light bulb for too long) or a fuzzy black ball of wool taking up a noticeable part of your vision, get to a hospital A&E immediately. Not an Opticians, or a hospital that doesn't have ENT/Eye specialists. Take an overnight change of clothes. The procedure is straightforward - I experienced astonishingly little pain afterwards (I've had worse headaches) - and you can self-medicate at home (essentially a faff involving a lot of eye-drops, at least for the first week after the op). And it doesn't stop you from making far too many posts on the Forum (That's not an emoticon - it's a portrait of what you'll look like for a few weeks! Stock up on soups, ready meals, milk etc (online supermarket shopping really comes into its own here - but start an account before you go into hospital - sorting out the small print with one eye isn't conducive to good humour!

Ignore all online descriptions of the op and post-op care - it's frightening and misleading - and get any treatment done as soon as possible: the conseuences otherwise are far more scary and lifelong (as opposed to the six weeks in total of discumbuggerance that follows the Op.

Best wishes.

[Lat-Literal]

If my own experience of retinal detachment is typical, you won't have "long-term" symptoms, Lats. You'll notice flashing lights in the corner of your vision (as if somebody's taking flash photography just over your shoulder) when you move from a dark to a light environment (or vice versa) - and probably a lot more "floaters" and/or black dots in the affected eye. Very important, if you see a "shadow" (rather like the "blind spot" that happens if you look at a light bulb for too long) or a fuzzy black ball of wool taking up a noticeable part of your vision, get to a hospital A&E immediately. Not an Opticians, or a hospital that doesn't have ENT/Eye specialists. Take an overnight change of clothes. The procedure is straightforward - I experienced astonishingly little pain afterwards (I've had worse headaches) - and you can self-medicate at home (essentially a faff involving a lot of eye-drops, at least for the first week after the op). And it doesn't stop you from making far too many posts on the Forum (That's not an emoticon - it's a portrait of what you'll look like for a few weeks! Stock up on soups, ready meals, milk etc (online supermarket shopping really comes into its own here - but start an account before you go into hospital - sorting out the small print with one eye isn't conducive to good humour!

Ignore all online descriptions of the op and post-op care - it's frightening and misleading - and get any treatment done as soon as possible: the conseuences otherwise are far more scary and lifelong (as opposed to the six weeks in total of discumbuggerance that follows the Op.

Best wishes.

Thank you.

Yes - flashing and more floaters.

I've known two people in my past to have these symptoms at this age.

Contrary to appearances, I'm spending a lot less time on the computer.

I'm seeing my GP this week about umpteen things.

[BBMmk2]

OMG Lat! Hope it will all be resolved soon! That's you're three in a row done!

25C today!

[Serial_Apologist]

Thank you.

Yes - flashing and more floaters.

I've known two people in my past to have these symptoms at this age.

Contrary to appearances, I'm spending a lot less time on the computer.

I'm seeing my GP this week about umpteen things.

Hope all goes well Lat; best of luck to you!

[BBMmk2]

Had my second cataract op this morning. back home now. Hoping it will reap dividends for me!

Another sunny here. A little cooler than yesterday 23C.

[LMcD]

Thank you.

Yes - flashing and more floaters.

I've known two people in my past to have these symptoms at this age.

Contrary to appearances, I'm spending a lot less time on the computer.

I'm seeing my GP this week about umpteen things.

Hope all goes well - and congratulations on getting an appointment with a doctor. We usually get seen by a practice nurse - not that that most of them aren't good at what they do....as for seeing the doctor with whom we're actually registered, we've seen him once in the last 18 months or so.

[Serial_Apologist]

Still remarkably hot here in London, though a few clouds now spreading in from the SW, indicating a change of wind direction that heralds cooler more changeable conditions for the rest of the week. What wonderful weather over the bank holiday weekend, though! - three whole days without a single cloud to be seen is a rarity difficult to achieve anywhere in our Atlantic-born humid climate, and something I don't think I've experienced, in all 60 years of my observations! It also appears that temperature maxima broke all the records, albeit only going back to 1978 when the Mayday BH was first instituted.

[DracoM]

Well, up here, dank, COLD, wet and fells invisible.
Talk about A Winter's Tale...............

[cloughie]

Good now but Flora Day in Helston suffered a couple of hours mizzle this morning, but brightened up just in time for the Midday Dance.

[BBMmk2]

Seems to be another sunny day today. A little cooler, thank goodness, around 20C