Risk blindness, or COVID
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@Jolly said in Risk blindness, or COVID:
What's your problem?
SERIOUS close proximity to the doc. Eyeball-to-eyeball. In the truest, Charlie-in-the-jungle sense of the phrase. They shove a prism kind of thing on my eye, he looks at it on the other end for a few minutes. His face will be an inch or so away from mine.
I'm not saying I'm being at all rational.
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@Jolly said in Risk blindness, or COVID:
What's your problem?
SERIOUS close proximity to the doc. Eyeball-to-eyeball. In the truest, Charlie-in-the-jungle sense of the phrase. They shove a prism kind of thing on my eye, he looks at it on the other end for a few minutes. His face will be an inch or so away from mine.
I'm not saying I'm being at all rational.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Risk blindness, or COVID:
@Jolly said in Risk blindness, or COVID:
What's your problem?
SERIOUS close proximity to the doc. Eyeball-to-eyeball. In the truest, Charlie-in-the-jungle sense of the phrase.
I'm not saying I'm being at all rational.
Nah, your eye problem...
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Pigment Dispersion Syndrome. I apparently won the Scando genetic lottery there.
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Pigment Dispersion Syndrome. I apparently won the Scando genetic lottery there.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Risk blindness, or COVID:
Pigment Dispersion Syndrome. I apparently won the Scando genetic lottery there.
So, you're worried about an acute attack of painful glaucoma. And I'm not sure about winning the lottery...The wife said they only had about four cases in her office in thirty years.
You gotta go, dude.
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At my recent eye appointment with the optometrist who Trump doesn't like, I kept fogging up the machine I was looking through, because of my mask and how it directed my exhales, and the guy had to keep leaning in to wipe it off.
Education is extremely important.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Risk blindness, or COVID:
Pigment Dispersion Syndrome. I apparently won the Scando genetic lottery there.
So, you're worried about an acute attack of painful glaucoma. And I'm not sure about winning the lottery...The wife said they only had about four cases in her office in thirty years.
You gotta go, dude.
@Jolly said in Risk blindness, or COVID:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Risk blindness, or COVID:
Pigment Dispersion Syndrome. I apparently won the Scando genetic lottery there.
So, you're worried about an acute attack of painful glaucoma. And I'm not sure about winning the lottery...The wife said they only had about four cases in her office in thirty years.
You gotta go, dude.
Yeah, I know. It's a potentially very dangerous and insidious way to lose your eyesight. I've never had a problem with it before, but I also know that doesn't mean a damn thing.
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At my recent eye appointment with the optometrist who Trump doesn't like, I kept fogging up the machine I was looking through, because of my mask and how it directed my exhales, and the guy had to keep leaning in to wipe it off.
@Horace said in Risk blindness, or COVID:
At my recent eye appointment with the optometrist who Trump doesn't like, I kept fogging up the machine I was looking through, because of my mask and how it directed my exhales, and the guy had to keep leaning in to wipe it off.
Were they masked up?
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I would take comfort in the fact that we have not read stories of people getting Covid from going to the doctor’s office. The staff are generally more concerned about the patients than patients are of the staff. They tend to take extraordinary precautions.
I personally know several clinicians who have been seeing patients for months, including one surgical nurse who’s been to Elmhurst and has been in NYC doing their job for months. Has watched patients die.
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My experience is that doctors, dentists, optometrists all take this pretty seriously and take good precautions.
You definitely need to go.
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@Friday said in Risk blindness, or COVID:
Maybe you could ask the office what precautions are being taken. Knowing might make you feel better.
Nah I'm just likely being stupid and I know that. I just wish I didn't have to do this.
@Aqua-Letifer
Not to add to your anxiety, but I think Friday's suggestion is a good one. I broke down and finally made an appointment to get my knee checked out a few weeks ago. Temperature checks at the door, patients in masks, and my initial consultation was with a masked doctor. But post-MRI I had an appointment with the doctor who owns the practice, and I was shocked to see him walk into the room to greet me mask-less, with a handshake. Great doctor, decades of practice and very highly regarded, but he was the only one in the office without a mask.Knowing ahead of time that you won't run into a similar situation (or, knowing that you will and then being able to modify your plans) may help ease a bit of those anxieties.
Good luck, Aqua!
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Also, I was really surprised to see the office had bowls of candy everywhere (wrapped candy, but still. . . ) and magazines in the waiting room. I thought those were things that would disappear, just as an added layer (or at least a semblance) of precaution.
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Great.
Well, I know to ditch if things aren't safe enough then. I spoke with the doc but couldn't get a bead on how seriously they were taking all this. I know the practice has drastically reduced their daily number of patients, but that's it.
Better or worse, my appointment is tomorrow, so we'll see.
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@Aqua-Letifer
Not to add to your anxiety, but I think Friday's suggestion is a good one. I broke down and finally made an appointment to get my knee checked out a few weeks ago. Temperature checks at the door, patients in masks, and my initial consultation was with a masked doctor. But post-MRI I had an appointment with the doctor who owns the practice, and I was shocked to see him walk into the room to greet me mask-less, with a handshake. Great doctor, decades of practice and very highly regarded, but he was the only one in the office without a mask.Knowing ahead of time that you won't run into a similar situation (or, knowing that you will and then being able to modify your plans) may help ease a bit of those anxieties.
Good luck, Aqua!
@Optimistic said in Risk blindness, or COVID:
@Aqua-Letifer
I broke down and finally made an appointment to get my knee checked out a few weeks ago.So how'd it go?
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@Optimistic said in Risk blindness, or COVID:
@Aqua-Letifer
I broke down and finally made an appointment to get my knee checked out a few weeks ago.So how'd it go?
@Aqua-Letifer
A little tear in the meniscus, which Dr. Mask-less McHandshake thinks can be healed with some PT sessions and strengthening around the knee. I was told it’s better to keep running as much as feels ok. I’ll take that! -
At my recent eye appointment with the optometrist who Trump doesn't like, I kept fogging up the machine I was looking through, because of my mask and how it directed my exhales, and the guy had to keep leaning in to wipe it off.
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@Aqua-Letifer
A little tear in the meniscus, which Dr. Mask-less McHandshake thinks can be healed with some PT sessions and strengthening around the knee. I was told it’s better to keep running as much as feels ok. I’ll take that!@Optimistic said in Risk blindness, or COVID:
@Aqua-Letifer
A little tear in the meniscus, which Dr. Mask-less McHandshake thinks can be healed with some PT sessions and strengthening around the knee. I was told it’s better to keep running as much as feels ok. I’ll take that!Do, but don't overdo. Take care of yourself...
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@Optimistic said in Risk blindness, or COVID:
@Aqua-Letifer
A little tear in the meniscus, which Dr. Mask-less McHandshake thinks can be healed with some PT sessions and strengthening around the knee. I was told it’s better to keep running as much as feels ok. I’ll take that!Do, but don't overdo. Take care of yourself...
@Jolly
The heat and my aging dog not being able to run as much as she used to are helping to keep me in check.
