Subj : Re: Synchronet sysops
To   : Tiny
From : digimaus
Date : Thu Nov 07 2024 23:16:02

-=> Tiny wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 Ti> I started with readers at 47 I think it was, but a few months after
 Ti> that I needed the eye doc to write a script.  One eye is much worse
 Ti> then the otehr one is.

My diabetic retinopathy loves to mess with my vision if I'm not careful. 
About to undergo another six-month round of shots in my eyes but thank God
that a) I'm not having to pay the USD$5000 a shot and b) the shots work well
on my eyes.  The shots themselves are nowhere near painful (I don't feel or
see the actual physical needle) and the side effects, while irritating, are
minor.

The worst problem is that I was born with esophoria or my inner eye muscles
are too short.  I wear prisms in  my glasses to modify the focal point of
the light incoming to my eye so I do not get terrible headaches.  There is
no surgery to fix my issue that works well so I just wear glasses.  I do
see halos around lights at night and I have to have the glaaes tinted for
outside as the prisms tend to concentrate light and surrounding light
becomes incredibly bright.

The nearsightedness is age-related so I just deal with it. LOL

At least I didn't get astigmatism from my mom.  She has wet macular
degeneration and is on shots to control it.  Both my younger sister and I
could get it when we are older also.

I'm glad that, when I had the money, I bought two 27" monitors.  They help a
lot allowing me to see details such.

-- Sean

.... Money isn't everything; usually it isn't even enough.
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