General Chat

Ann its not good being in pain & sometimes pain killers can upset the stomach .I can only take Paracetamol .The news isn't good up here as in England there are going to be cutbacks ..local paper only two Radiologist for thousands of patients .GP shortage .we cant be ill anymore .or get older .What the heck is going to happen in the future .Barbra x

Well all fingers and toes crossed! He has been offered an early date by the hospital on an extra list being put on a week on Saturday !!! Only a delay of 8 days.

Do hope this time it can go ahead. :-) :-)

That's good News Fingers Crossed x

Fingers crossed for him xx

Great news for you. Sure it will go well.

Thanks.

Good news Ann .what a difference it will make to him if it's as good as the ones I know who have had the procedure. <3

My sister's hysterectomy was cancelled twice....

First.... She was prepared for surgery then told the Surgeon was on holiday!

Second... In the anesthetic area of the theatre and asked when she last had a drink answered 30 minutes ago when given a drink by a nurse.......Operation cancelled!
( My sister had never been in hospital, not even to be born, so had no idea a drink would cause a problem, especially when told to do so by a nurse!)

Third time lucky.....Sucsess :-D

AnninGlos
Fingers well and truly crossed
<3

Chris

On Monday, I took o.h. to a check-up at the Eye Clinic (called Nelson unit lol-we are in Norfolk) as one eye's cataract is bad so needs fixing. Yesterday he got a call to arrange the final assessment, and the procedure date, which should be 21st April. They then tried to arrange a date for the second eye to be done as apparently cataracts don't have to be 'ripe' these days and can be done sooner. I hope there won't be cancellations as o.h. hates changes in plans and gets panicky, also he will have to arrange time off work. The doctor told him he couldn't go back to work for at least a week, due to it being in a dusty factory. Considering he is 7 years younger than I am, he's falling apart so much quicker lol I have a cataract forming too but hope it will be a while yet before it needs doing.

In 1981 I was all ready for an important op but got a call the day I was supposed to go in, to say the op had to be postponed which was disconcerting and a nuisance for my office but I did get the op about a week or ten days later so not too bad.

I hope your daughter's new partner gets his op very soon, Ann

Lizx

According to the NHS England website, fore the quarter ended 31st December 2016, there were a total of 21,249 elective operations cancelled, up from 18,393 for the same period in 2015, and not good news at all for those affected.

However, and this is the bit the media is keen to overlook, those cancellations represented just 1.1% of all elective activity.

So despite the worsening situation, almost two million patients, the other 98.9% that is, were not affected.

Fingers crossed Ann that everything goes to plan.

Purple, you may be lucky. I've had the beginnings of a cataract since I was working and it has not progressed, thank goodness. ..... and my retirement years are well into double figures now.

Keep your fingers crossed. :-)

Thanks Joy Louise, I hope it doesn't happen too soon. One thing that she said was that they will insert lenses that will give normal sight so only reading glasses will be required but I have worn specs since I was 11, so 58 yrs and have a groove in my nose, I don't suit being without specs. I had contact lenses in the 80s but didn't feel right in them then so definitely won't feel happy without my specs to hide behind lol

Lizx

Liz .................


get reading glasses that graduate to plain glass, then you can wear them all the time if you want :-D

I have a friend who did that when she had her cataracts done, and found she hated being without glasses.

I had worn glasses from the age of about 5 when I had my cataracts done back in 2001, so for about the same length of time as you. I loved being without glasses .......... I started wearing eye makeup again because I could see to put it on.

I bought several pairs of sunglasses, because I could wear fun frames ........ although I did make sure the lenses were UVB protected.. I have given most of those away ............. grey, light brown, and other coloured lenses just didn't feel right, although they were supposed to be UVB protected.

The only problem I had was getting used to rain and wind in my eyes :-)

16 years later .............. I still only wear reading glasses although they are graduated so that I can see the computer monitor. I don't wear glasses when I go out


.............. and I still buy sunglasses with fun frames

Liz.,
Very interesting reading about you not wanting your cataract op.

Mine is only just starting and I had not thought about having it done,as I said,didn't know they could be done at this stage,and it was the consultant who said,when I hadn't gone about that eye,....do you drive?..when I said yes he advised it and said you will be amazed.

Will let you know when I've had it,and see if he's right!

To delay and deny what are now routine procedures which are v cost effective is both ultra poor govt policy and wrong use of resources by the NHS.

A big factor in the trials and tribulations of the NHS is that patients have v ilttle control while a massive monolithic org behaves more like the Hapsburg empire. the only fix for this is to move to an insurance based system. the French have shown how it can work well for rich and poor. It won't save money though. The Oz system works v badly.

My mother had both of her cateracts done and the results were marvellous.
I have worn contact lenses since the 70s, currently daily disposable. I'd hate to go back to frames tho uv sunglasses have their uses. Wearing them in nightclubs has always puzzled me.

Good luck

Published figures show the waiting list for orthopaedic referrals – the majority of which are hip & knee operations – has rocketed from 376,000 in 2008 to 505,957 last year.

Not good news for AnninGlos's family.

Dermot is that people living longer or improvement at diagnosing it?

Thanks Brenda and Sylvia. I have every intention of having the op done when necessary and will obviously still need specs for reading as will o.h. who is long sighted. I am shortsighted. I will also have to have new lens in my sunglasses. I am sure I will find a way to manage the change. I did have contact lens for a while before my son was born, the kind that had to be cleaned daily but so many people said I looked better wearing specs that it didn't bother me to stop using contact lenses.

O.h. has to have safety specs for work as well as his 'home' specs , so it's going to be a hassle getting all his specs altered and then altered a second time six weeks later when the other eye is done. He will need reading glasses and safety specs for working close up to computerised machinery which he fixes and maintains, in confined spaces.

Will look foward to hearing your updated info, Brenda. Good luck.

Lizx

Liz

I was extremely short sighted ......... until I had the cataracts done.

I am now long sighted

They can put in new lens that alter your previous eyesight problem .......... they don't guarantee that you will have 20/20 vision afterwards, and in fact the newbie Resident who told me the day after the second operation that I would be 20/19 or 19/20 was firmly corrected by the specialist! The specialist then made a point of making sure that I also understood.

I ended up with 18/19 sight in one eye and 19/18 in the other ............... which is very good.

If you are very lucky, you might get away with being able to use el cheapo reading glasses .... ie, not needing prescription ones.


Of course, things then change as one ages .............. it's nearly 16 years since I had the operations, and I'm beginning to notice a slight deterioration in my long distance sight in one eye in particular. The eye which had been a problem from a very young age is the one that is deteriorating faster.