Re: Anyone familiar with this group?

">^;^< Great-Granny Grayfur" <love.my.kitties@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: I'm constantly there. My ophthalmologist is just around two corners from me, and a personal
: friend. I've had bilateral cataract surgery with monovision implants. Sjogren's disease (one
: of my autoimmune 'friends') causes the membranes to be excessively dry, and that includes
: extremely dry eyes. She said my corneas, especially the left, look like desert sand. I use
: Restasis, Smooth drops, along with other things including flaxseed oil (recommended by her); we
: can get the right one clear, but still battling the left. My last visual field showed a quarter
: of blocked vision in my left eye. Now that my kidney stones are about gone, she will do the
: test where dye is injected. Though there is no sign of retinopathy, she is still considering
: sending me to a specialist for that. I really need to make an appointment for the dye test now
: that my kidney stones are almost gone. She was concerned about the stress on my kidneys with
: adding the dye. My problem is that I fail to make the appointments and go in, what with all the
: doctors' appointments I have it gets really hard to get to all of them as most are in Memphis
: and often require overnight stays because of the difficulty of the trips on me nowadays. I've
: just had so many things going on these past few months since the bad fall shook up my body so it
: seems. Still have three stones yet to go, I think; missed my urologist's call the other
: morning, and am having to return his call.

: Thanks for asking......... hang in there!
: Billie
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Billie,

By the dye test are you referring to the florescene test when they inject
you (in the arm) with this substance that lights up your eyes and thenthe
phoograph them? It also lights up your pee for a time or two:-) Nt a
big deal. I now have this test every time I go to th esuperspecialists
for retina, macula and vitreous. It seems to be required to see how my
wet macular degeneraion is resonding t the weird treatments. So far, so
good. I may be actually stabile for the first time in quie a while and
may be aolt to do without treatments , but constant watching, for some
time. (hope-hope-hope) I am able to read somewhat better and have
invested in some nes lams that shine down brightly on the stuff I am
reading. I can actually read some for a little while in a dimmer light,
but it is a big effort. Crossing wide streets is still an advenure, but a
bit less scary.

Try a big calender and write all the appointments on it and keep it on the
refrigertor dor so you don't miss anything. It does get confusing
sometimes.

Wendy
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