Monday, August 9, 2010

Righty isn't so right anymore and the eyes don't have a thing...

What the heck; I hear you all saying!
To be clear I am having eye troubles with my so-called good eye, the right one.
It appears not to have a cataract or as my Dad used to jest, a Cadillac. I think he was channeling Norm Crosby while he was still alive; both of them that is, he and my Dad.
Any-who, Hubby also had an eye issue today that besides going to my neuro’s office we went back to his eyeglass distributor with his complaint of foul, he was not happy with his new eyeglasses that he just purchased last week.

Apparently, the bifocal part was not located in the right place he thought, but when checked by the eyeglass person it turns out the bifocal prescription part was actually the wrong prescription, way too strong for what he needs. And so now we will have to return to his eye doc to have that fixed.

Me, on the other hand found out that my eye problem is fixable with medication, but not the pill type, the IV type, yep folks back on those wonderful STEROIDS that we all love so much in 1000MG Solu-Medrol form, like I had in the hospital a year and half ago!
The correct treatment for optic neuritis, which I appear to have after three docs determined it was not a cataract, now I almost wish. The best part of this treatment is nothing; it is costly money-wise and causes me to temporarily have diabetes, and plumps me up to even larger, and let us not forget it knocks out your immune system not unlike a chemo therapy, but only until it is over with fortunately, but then for a small additional time you must take two weeks of the pill form of the medication to step you down!
I am just too thrilled for words.
If this hadn’t been going on now for nearly six weeks I guess I would be more hesitant to be concerned.
But foolish me I thought it would go away or maybe the new injectable Copaxone would fix the problem, but alas no it’s not for that! But it is to protect me from more relapses which is a good thing really!

Right this minute we have a heck of a rain storm coming in, actually it’s already here!
And so I am saving this over and over again, I learned my lesson when I lost too many of my little verbiages from not doing just that!

Tonight’s Blog should be a wee bit shorter due to my fear, honestly there is no other way to explain it; I am concerned that lightening will strike me while on this thing!
And living in the lightening capital of the world doesn’t make me feel that I am the least bit irrationally wrong!

Meanwhile back at the hospital… I have been searching for the right price for this procedure to take place since it is coming out of our pockets with me being ‘pre-existing’ and non insurable once again! First quote was fifteen hundred not counting the insulin shots or my additional pills after. Might as well be a million, since I already paid most of this month's bills and a few more should be arriving soon, and our balance is not even close to that number! UH oh, well I did do Hubby’s suggestion and called the clinic that I went to a few weeks ago and so far they appear to be on board just fax the prescription, but my doctor’s office closed an hour and half before I was able to reach my IV Angel MS. "L", we will call her, and so I now must wait until eight thirty tomorrow morning, no problemo, I do believe! And so that is where we stand now, wait and see.
Although, once again I will have to fill out another financial report this with the hospital where it will be done, but gosh I am getting real good at this!
On that possible solution to another day in my life, hey I am back on topic; how about that folks?

On that hopeful note of resolve I will wish you all a good night and to all count those blessings and we will too! Let’s face it sometimes its all we got!

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