K9STH

[KA4DPO]

Glen, How are you doing?

We're keeping an eye out for you..

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[K9STH]

I am definitely here, posting several times a day.

Had eye surgery Tuesday morning (major cataract removed) and am in the recovery stages.

Glen, K9STH

[N6KX]

Glen... don't know you personally, but have appreciated your QRZ postings. #Best wishes for a rapid recovery, OM.

Regards,
Howie N6KX #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[w5klb]

Glen,

If you can read this, thank your doctor. It's good to hear that your recovery is going well.

I'm finding out that growing old ain't for sissies.

I have had to start wearing glasses. It seems my arms aren't long enough to read the paper anymore. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[WA2ZDY]

I wear bifocals, have another pair of glasses for the computer (too close for the top of the bifocals, too far for the bottom) and have worn glasses since I was ten.

Nothing to it; you get used to it. Good luck with your continued recovery Glen and thanks for being here for us!

[WA9SVD]

Good luck, and best wishes for a rapid recovery. (It's simple surgery now, not requiring several days hospitalization like it did back in the 60's.)

de WA9SVD

[wa9cwx]

Glen,

Best of healing to you, and THANK you for your great work here on QRZ.

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Frank

[K9STH]

I am definitely seeing better. However, the doctor won't let me lift much of anything until a week from this coming Wednesday! My wife is seeing that I don't lift anything even to the point of taking out the trash!

She also makes sure that I put in the eye drops on schedule (one has to go in every 2 hours). In fact, she has been getting me out of bed a little bit early so that the drops schedule falls on an even hour!

It was the preparation for surgery that took the longest, about 1.5 hours. Was "on the table" for about 15 minutes and in the recovery room for about 20 minutes. Then was allowed to go home.

My wife didn't want to drive down to the surgery center (it is down one freeway and across another and she won't get near a freeway anymore) so Charlie, K5USS, drove us down and waited until the surgery was done and brought us back home. He lives about 5 blocks from me and Carolyn and I definitely thank Charlie for helping.

Glen, K9STH

[ai4ep]

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I plan on living forever...so far so good !! I turn 48 Monday. No I dont act or look my age.

But then, you already knew half of that, didnt ya ? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[KG4YUV]

Wow, I've never been sedated but I get my wisdom teeth out on the 11th. (They're straight and erupted through the gums with good firm roots, it's just that one of the bottom ones is yawed in such a manner that it has caused a previous infection and could cause another one)

I feel for you having to go through something like that, hope all continues to go well Glen!

[WA9UAA]

Glen,
Glad to hear you are on the mend. Do follow the DR.'s orders. Oh, and your MD's as well.
73,
Rob WA9UAA

[K9STH]

My wife definitely will NOT let me forget any of my medicines! She definitely does not like to drive any more (except to go get her hair cut and that is only about a mile from the house) and I think that she is making sure that I can take her wherever she wants to go!

Once in a while when we were driving to visit either her eldest sister in Panama City Beach, Florida, or our youngest daughter in the Atlanta, Georgia, area she would drive on the Interstate if the traffic was not heavy (and let me try to sleep). But, if traffic started to build up she pulled over and had me take over again. However, my youngest daughter's husband has so many airline "miles" that he can't use all of them before they expire. So, he gets my wife and I round trip tickets to Atlanta so we don't have to drive any more.

The only thing with my new plastic lens is that the color that I see with my left eye is slightly different from my right eye. The sight through the plastic lens is somewhat brighter and has a slight "blue" tint whereas the "natural" lens in my right eye has a more "yellow" tint. Not enough to bother me, but if I close one eye and then the other I can definitely tell the difference.

Also, I have to always wear sunglasses when I am outside during the day because even with the ultra violet filter in the plastic lens the UV from the sun can cause problems. The doctor gave me a pair of sun "goggles" that fit over my regular glasses. However, I do have prescription sunglasses and can see fine through them.

My wife's eldest sister had the lens replacement in one eye about a month ago and is going in next week to have the other eye done. Now her vision has been so bad for years that the improvement was remarkable. She is still bragging about the fact that she can now see! This helped my wife with accepting the fact that I had to have the surgery because I had basically become blind in my left eye over just a few months.

Glen, K9STH

[K3UD]

Glen,

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

73
George
K3UD

[W3MIV]

Following this with some interest since I have cataracts growing in both eyes. Oph won't do anything about them yet, and they are not serious enough yet to cause real discomfort. Something to look forward to: another reward of the aging process (which still beats H out of the alternative).

Hope all continues well for you, Glen.

[kl7aj]

Quote[/b] (K9STH @ June 24 2006,15:58)]I am definitely seeing better. #However, the doctor won't let me lift much of anything until a week from this coming Wednesday! #My wife is seeing that I don't lift anything even to the point of taking out the trash!

She also makes sure that I put in the eye drops on schedule (one has to go in every 2 hours). #In fact, she has been getting me out of bed a little bit early so that the drops schedule falls on an even hour!

It was the preparation for surgery that took the longest, about 1.5 hours. #Was "on the table" for about 15 minutes and in the recovery room for about 20 minutes. #Then was allowed to go home.

My wife didn't want to drive down to the surgery center (it is down one freeway and across another and she won't get near a freeway anymore) so Charlie, K5USS, drove us down and waited until the surgery was done and brought us back home. #He lives about 5 blocks from me and Carolyn and I definitely thank Charlie for helping.

Glen, K9STH
You lift heavy objects with your EYES? Gee, Glenn, you're my hero! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[K9STH]

And my X-Ray vision still works!

Of course lead stops it and Kryptonite makes me feel ill.

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Glen, K9STH

[N0KLT]

Quote[/b] (K9STH @ June 26 2006,13:22)]And my X-Ray vision still works!

Of course lead stops it and Kryptonite makes me feel ill.

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Glen, K9STH
I see they have you on the good stuff today if that's your idea of reality today, Glen. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Glad to hear you are getting along so good. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[K9STH]

The only thing that the eye surgeon has me on are 3 different sets of eye drops that I have to take 3 times a day and 2 of them a 4th time.

I didn't need to fill the prescription that he gave me for pain killers although they might have been "fun"!

A friend of mine (amateur radio operator) had some out-patient neck surgery a few weeks ago and was given some hydrocodone plus muscle relaxer. He definitely was in "La La Land" when he ran a weekly net the evening after having surgery in the morning.

Almost 40 years ago a doctor prescribed some muscle relaxers for me. I took one dosage and for almost 3 days had an "out of body experience". That is it was like I was watching myself do things like a 3rd party. No more of those pills for me!

Glen, K9STH

[VK2TIL]

The ban on lifting is, if I remember correctly, to avoid strain which can, in a very very few cases, cause retinal detachment.

Any operation is intrusive; it's not just a cut & a stitch. #The eye is feeling a bit sore & sorry for itself and the ban on lifting is just a precaution.

I had trouble with itchy and sore eyes for several weeks after the operation; drove me crazy.

The eye surgeon worked-out that it was an allegic reaction to the eyedrops which contained a steroid compound (building-up the eye muscles? #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif ).

Stopped the eyedrops; problem vanished.

Odd, as, to my knowledge, I've never had an allergic reaction to anything in my life other than on this occasion.

You are clearly on-the-mend now, Glen.

[WA2ZDY]

I had corneal surgery in 1995 after an injury. #I liked the pain-killer for the eye. #Wow. #Drops so powerful they couldn't be used except by the doctor in his office. #My eye doc told me "this stuff is too strong for me to let you have it. #You could stick a knitting needle in your eye and not know it."

He was right, that's the stuff they used in my eye so I could sit up in a chair with my chin in the chin-rest while they stuck needles in my eye. #I have the microscope video here somewhere . . .

Muscle relaxers come in a variety. # I used to use flexoril. #Good stuff, it did the job well. #It also put me into a VERY sound sleep from which my wife could not wake me and made my blood sugar drop dangerously. #It thusly added to the county paramedics accounts receiveable when my wife would call 911 after testing my sugar, finding it around 35 (normal is 80-120) and not being able to wake me to get sugar into me.

After a couple of those episodes I asked my doctor what else we could do and he prescribed Norflex. # Same benefit, absolutely NO side effects.

And for reasons some of you might pick up on, I am NEVER prescribed narcotics unless hospitalised where I am supervised. Just as well, bad stuff that.

I'm starting to sound like those geezers on 75 who talk about Bertha and her mighty powerful hurt. #Noooooooooooooooooo!!!! Save me!!!!

[KA4DPO]

Quote[/b] (WA2ZDY @ June 26 2006,17:11)]And for reasons some of you might pick up on, I am NEVER prescribed narcotics unless hospitalised where I am supervised. # Just as well, bad stuff that. #

I'm starting to sound like those geezers on 75 who talk about Bertha and her mighty powerful hurt. #Noooooooooooooooooo!!!! Save me!!!!
Sorry, I'm kind of slow so perhaps you could enlighten us as to why your medication must be supervised.

I know some people have psychotic episodes and imagine all kinds of stuff when given sedatives.

Gee I hope that doesn't happen to you.

[KE5JAZ]

Hi Glen, just thought I would wish you well, long time reader, first time poster. I had the same operation back in April, both eyes, but 10 days apart. Don't remember much of it though (Versed is nice) Had a dense cataract in right eye and rapidly progressing one in left. I am only 34, would have loved to make it to about 50-60 before this hit.

My XYL also was (is) very protective and particular about my eyedrops.

Colors are probably getting pretty vivid by now arent they? Small details getting better too?

Went glasses-free for a month while things settled, final 'script were bifocals. I am getting by really good. Hope you are too

Did they warn you about the "after" cataract...where the membrane turns (or could turn) cloudy after a few months? doesnt happen to everyone, but if it does, its a quick laser fix, supposedly.

Best of luck!
Glenn

[K9STH]

JAZ:

There is some mention of the possible "new" cataract in the literature that the doctor gave me.

What is happening with me is that with the new lens my sight has gone back to what it always has been. My eyeglass prescription had not changed from the first time I got glasses about 50 years ago. I can see quite well with my glasses but things are "fuzzy" without them.

What I think happened is that the defects are actually in my eye and not in the lens. I am going to ask when I am at the eye doctor's office in the morning. It isn't a problem since I have to have glasses for my right eye anyway. It is just the fact that my prescription that I have had since I was 11 years old works pretty well with the new lens. Not perfect (I will need some new glasses) but quite well considering.

Glen, K9STH

[WA9SVD]

Glen:

Glad your recovery is going so well.

You (and others) are lucky! I had a heriditary cataract removed when I was 14, back in the 60's. In those days, it was considered major surgery, (which it was) and you had to lie on your back, motionless (or as much as possible) for the first three days, and if lucky, discharged from the hospital in 6-7 days! Recovery was a three month process. (Just in time for school to start!) But activities (sports, PE, lifting more than a few pounds) were still restricted for a year.
Now, it's prep, a few "ZAPS" of ultrasound, vacuum out the debris remaining, and they kick you out of the office! WHAT a difference.

Ain't Technology grand???

P.S. A friend out here makes most of the titanium tips used in the ultrasound zappers used for cataract surgery. Boy, talk about PRECISION machine shop work!