B&B Happy Goats....journal

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

Miss Barbara,

Just read about your eye condition. Holy cow! I really hope you can get the medical help you need! Please know we are all rooting for you and Leon.

 

[Bruce]

Barb Lots of and for the surgeon finding it repairable. I can't even image laying face down for weeks. A half hour on the massage table is OK but days and weeks?? Then there are the normal needs of the body, how do you do all that laying face down? I'm at JFK but the next plane goes west to So. Cal, not south to FL.

You can power through this 'cause you always manage to do so. I lived effectively blind in one eye for 55 years but that was all I knew so there was no adjustment.

More for you and Leon.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

We are home, the new specialist was VERY thorough....and found more problems with both eyes, Monday they will operate on right eye, plan is if no complications , I come home...plant myself face down till I have to return there at 6am, bending forward in the truck face down...same on ride back home..then one week of face down but can get up to do the needed, food potty etc for five minutes only, then back face down.....he is 80 percent sure that this will be repaired, can't promise it won't happen again and will take up to 6 months for vision to return to "normal" ...other eye I am keeping on hold until I know how this one is healing....
So trying to keep a sense of humor I will be in my bed next week face planted in whatever BYH stuff that you wanna throw this way, "one eyed deaf cyclops "seems fitting at the moment, sure beats being deaf in both ears and blind sitting in the corner in a pile of poo growing into a mushroom ! Bay did warm ya of the dark humor
Thank you for the support and well wishs.....
I got to be able to see to take leon for his hand surgery on Dec. 3....
Going to go read all that I missed today, have a fantastic evening everyone

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Sounds like you've got a good doc - that's pretty darn important! You hang in there!

 

[Bruce]

That's HALF deaf cyclops Barb!

 

[Bruce]

I have a great idea, in case your vision goes. Train Sophie as a seeing eye dog. She's perfect, so calm

 

[farmerjan]

Barb, is everything good with the new Medicare plan you just switched to, for this? I am so sorry that you are "FACING THIS DOWN" (sorry I couldn't resist) . But you are superwoman, so except for the boredom.... you will do fine. Thoughts with you during the surgery and hoping that this will really help.

 

[Bruce]

Fred needs some fencing fast! Walking one dog on a leash several times a day is plenty!

 

[Devonviolet]

Spent most of the day with my dear neighbor at the hospital getting her tests.....NO cancer for her ...her other D r. Had her take the "colon guard "at home test...yep, a false positive, poor woman was worried for weeks about having cancer and that she was going to die....she was so happy that everything was fine, so I took her to Baskin Robbins for a ice cream .....boy did that put a smile on her pretty little face...
Have a great night

The problem with that home colon test, is that a lot of people have bleeding hemorrhoids. Even a small amount of blood from the hemorrhoids, will show up as a false positive on a colon smear test for colon cancer. it’s not an exact science and causes a lot of people to stress over colon cancer unecessarily. I’m not saying that one shouldn’t do the test. Just ask your doctor to check for bleeding hemorrhoids before going for a colonoscopy.

 

[Mike CHS]

The problem with that home colon test, is that a lot of people have bleeding hemorrhoids. Even a small amount of blood from the hemorrhoids, will show up as a false positive on a colon smear test for colon cancer. it’s not an exac t science and causes a lot of people to stress over colon cancer unecessarily. I’m not saying that one shouldn’t do the test. Just ask your doctor to check for bleeding hemorrhoids before going for a colonoscopy.

That is what happened to me earlier this year so I had the colonoscopy.