On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 14:15:13 -0400, Reef Fish
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 00:23:40 +1000, Poe Lim <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Reef Fish" <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Re: [SCUBA-SE] OT, OT, and more OT
>>
>
>>> My eye is only ONE week old.  Before the operation, the cataract did
seem
>>> to make it much more difficult to see during the day looking at the
>>> bright sun OR looking at oncoming lights at night.  Don't know if
that's
>>> what you called the "glare".  That "glare" appears to have gone -- or
>>
>>Your surgery is a bit different, in that the puncture site (I assume
that's
>>what he did, if he removed the lens, and filled it with the gel) is
usually
>>in the sclera, whereas with LASIK, the cornea is cut.
>
>My use of the term "jell" is nonscientific, and it may not be a jell
>at all.  I was thinking of an implant like a tiny boob on wimmin, in
>my eye.
>
>
>>> Mine was definitely BETTER.  Of course I wasn't wearing any glasses
>>> or contacts.  Also Poe seemed to be skeptical, but it seemed that the
>>> piece of "jelly" implanted where the yellow cataract was removed, my
>>> vision of that eye was virtually 20/20.   I suppose the replacement
>>> COULD cause distortion to make my normal vision abnormal.  Perhaps
>>> that's why the doc had said after my OTHER eye is operated on, he'll
>>> then give me a thorough vision test to see whether I need glasses
>>
>>That soulds interesting; the gel sounds like something new.
>
>Now that you have my own curiosity piqued.
>
>When I see the doc next (in 3 weeks), I'll find out more about exactly
>what was stuck in there for my seeing eyes.

Today was the surgery on my right eye.  I actually saw the doc
before now, and learned that I was COMPLETELY MISTAKEN about my
jell-theory as in boop-implant!  :-)

The surgery was the REPLACEMENT of an entire surface of the eye
(not just the yellow part) by a clear surface of some substance
unknown to me.

So, it was more like the replacement of a filter in a car.  Out
comes the old one; back inserts a new one.


Other OT news about our Quack adventures:

Sue's tumor, which tooks weeks for the Quacks to diagnose to be
beneign, had shrunk from the size of a baseball (the ENT Quack's
estimate) to the size of a golf ball (his term, when a surgery
was scheduled for next week to remove it), to NOTHING (today)!
Now Sue has to do yet ANOTHER CAT scan (about the 3rd or 4th)
to see if there's anything left to remove.  ;-)  I think all
evidence seem to point to my Quack-theory.


I learned (from a biopsy report) that the little piece of meat
that was cut out from under my armpit (which had been there for
years, and was prompted to ask about the possibility of cancer
only in the light of Sue's cansorous adventures) had CANCER
cells in it (some little live ones).  :-)


Now I have to go back to the Dermatologist Quack in two weeks to
find out whether there's anything left to be butchered.


I saw a Cardiologist Quack, prompted by the suggestion of my
regular Quack (on the routine EKG prescribed by the Eye surgery
Quack; to find it perfectly normal) that I should perhaps have
a Cardio Quack in town, and not to rely on only the docs (those
are NOT Quacks) in Emory, ATL.  :-)   So, the new Cardio Quack
was more or less a local consultant, in case needed.

To make a long story of a short interview short, he is not only
a Quack, but a Quack with no attention span or hard of hearing.
He did look at the form I filled before the session;  kept asking
the same questions;  and forgot them 30 secs after I answered,
and asked again.  So, it was just a 5-10 minute "interview" or
"consultation" for possible FUTURE use.  No medical exam.  No
medical anything.  $256.


In Choo Choo town, it's Quack, Quack, Quack, and more Quacks.

I think I should start calling it Quack-Quack instead of Choo-Choo.

This is based on first hand info of about a dozen Quacks Sue and
I had seen within the past month or so.  :-))  The only good new is
that for the rest of the year, ALL or our Quack fees are "free"
because be had both reached our maximum out-of-pocket payment of
$1,500 on our BC/BS insurance.  So, we'll be doing lots more of
duck-feeding, between our trips the rest of the year.

Anybody interested in a Los Angeles, San Diego, Catalina Islands,
El Hacieda,MX, back to LA (4-night) cruise for $349 ppdo, ocean
view room on the Royal Caribbean (Monarch of the Sea)?  That's the
same 2,600 passenger ship on which I wrote about "Cruise and Scooba
Don't Mix".  :-)

ElPezNeuvo.