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.
wrote on 14 Jul 2020, 01:19 last edited by@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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wrote on 14 Jul 2020, 01:20 last edited by Aqua Letifer
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.
wrote on 14 Jul 2020, 01:27 last edited by@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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wrote on 14 Jul 2020, 01:27 last edited by Horace
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 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.
wrote on 14 Jul 2020, 01:30 last edited by@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.
wrote on 14 Jul 2020, 01:31 last edited by@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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wrote on 14 Jul 2020, 01:32 last edited by
Yes, the whole office was pretty serious minded about it. Cloth masks.
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wrote on 14 Jul 2020, 01:54 last edited by
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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wrote on 14 Jul 2020, 01:56 last edited by
Couldn't find anything on TV?
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wrote on 14 Jul 2020, 02:03 last edited by
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.
wrote on 14 Jul 2020, 02:33 last edited by@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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wrote on 14 Jul 2020, 02:36 last edited by
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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wrote on 14 Jul 2020, 02:44 last edited by
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!
wrote on 14 Jul 2020, 02:51 last edited by@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?
wrote on 14 Jul 2020, 03:01 last edited by@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.
wrote on 14 Jul 2020, 03:39 last edited by@Horace said in Risk blindness, or COVID:
....and the guy had to keep leaning in to “wipe it off”.
I bet he says that to all the guys.
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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!wrote on 14 Jul 2020, 04:30 last edited by@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...
wrote on 14 Jul 2020, 11:52 last edited by@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. -
wrote on 14 Jul 2020, 18:14 last edited by
Well that was interesting.
Eye stuff: I have migraines. Only not the "icepick to your brain" kind; at least not usually. A weird kind that make you see strange crap from time to time. Related a bit to my eye thing, but so far not at all threatening. Just a side effect of particular physiology. I gotta go back in December, though. Which, drag.
COVID stuff: The staff were taking this 100% seriously. I can't think of a way they could have been more careful. And almost all of the patients were, too. One or two jackasses, but I didn't have to deal with them because of how they set up the office. This really surprised me because it's the first instance I've seen in this area of people being careful.
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wrote on 14 Jul 2020, 18:18 last edited by
So just to nail it down, no bad news on the pigment dispersion thing?
