Ever just want to tear your hair out, or someone else's? If you cannot restore a sense of balance, you will run away from home? Just want to say some things without the constraints of staying on topic? Well, this thread is for you! If you just need a short break to let it all hang out, be a brat, then come on, you can do it. No holding back! Go for it, you can do it.
You're right, don't take your vision for granted. I woke up one day 10 years ago with a very sudden disturbance in my vision. Optometrist didn't find anything and it went away but it was scary to wake up and not be able to see correctly.
My grandmother had macular degeneration, and was practically blind by the time she passed at 103. I've read some things that suggest diet is linked to mac deg. It's incurable - you can't repair with surgery.
And Cubs just got a base hit. They might *actually* win...?! It would be something Chicago, and Cubs fans worldwide, will celebrate for months.
Holding my breath... :-)
I am starting to get cataracts, it scares me silly to even think about surgery... brrrrrr.
My cat Charley has glaucoma and it is almost impossible to get an eye drop into him. He's suppose to get the drop twice a day... he's 16 going on 2... so you can imagine he's not easy to catch.... he can hear me open the top of the bottle.
Wait, what's this? They are tarping over the field. They are going to delay the game for unknown period of time due to rain... we shall see... NUTS!!
Tied 6-6.....
I have to be up in 5 hours for a very long day BUT I can't go to bed now!!!
Cubbies....plzzzzz....
sto·i·cism
ˈstōəˌsizəm/
noun
1.
the endurance of pain or hardship without a display of feelings and without complaint.
synonyms: patience, forbearance, resignation, fortitude, endurance, acceptance, tolerance, phlegm
"she accepted her sufferings with remarkable stoicism"
2.
an ancient Greek school of philosophy founded at Athens by Zeno of Citium. The school taught that virtue, the highest good, is based on knowledge, and that the wise live in harmony with the divine Reason (also identified with Fate and Providence) that governs nature, and are indifferent to the vicissitudes of fortune and to pleasure and pain.
Ali, so what is it, already?
I should check my bp....
WHAT.A.SERIES.
Well done, 2016 World Series champs, the Chicago Cubs!!!
So much fun to root for your home team
Darn if I didn't have to work late and miss it and could only check the score on ESPN on my iPhone
Hey hey Chicago what'd y'all say ?
I want all caregivers to be especially careful of their eyesight and health. My eye problem was caused by a spontaneous retinal detachment...fluid leaked out the back of my eye and caused retina to detach spontaneously. Didn't feel pain, just went blind in that eye very quickly. Very puzzling and frightening as I didn't fall or hit my head or anything to cause that to happen. The cataract and clouded vision formed from the retinal surgery a year ago. They say about 85% get the cataracts after the surgery. The second surgery for removal of cataract and placing of a new lens right inside the eye comes about a year later. I can see out of that eye now for the first time in a year, but retinal scarring has caused me not to be able to read print out of the left eye but all else clear. It has improved a little so I am hoping to someday be able to read normal print out of that eye. Now when I read most of the "work" is done with my good eye.
I honestly believe that stress caused this to happen. My Mom went through so much and it took her over a year and a half to die in and out of hospitals, rehab, many times and then my home. She was coompletely bedridden with many health problems,and I was her sole caregiver until hospice came on and I had an aide come three times a week for bathing. It was the roughest thing I have ever experienced. She was not in pain, but mentally I sure was. Stress can cause so much so please take the time if you are caring for someone to take care of yourself. Even small breaks help, ten minutes here and there for breathing exercises, to go out in nature, etc. Whatever makes you happy no matter how little, it adds up.
Luckylu, I don't have any reading glasses with rhinestones but those might be fun too. I do have colorful ones and a pair of leopard print! Have to make this fun somehow!
This comment's not really in response to anything lol. Spent some free time at work today looking at the Cleveland Indians fans' responses to their team not winning the title. I think everyone has a right to be proud of how well these teams played. A Game 7 that went extra innings has only happened like 4 times in baseball history.
Yes, yes, quite a season.
:-)
Five more days until the strangest US presidential election of my lifetime is complete. That will be nice. :-)