Friday, January 6, 2012

Confessions are good for the soul?

Yesterday, I was a bad girl.
I already broke one of my New Year’s resolutions.
Which one; you so boldly ask?
The one where I promise not to research ills that have not been diagnosed by a medical professional, of course!
In reality though it was not all my fault!
While sitting here at this techno marvel that we all idolize, well not idolize but seem to have an umbilical cord attached to, minding my own business, yesterday morning, the news was reporting about how Macular Degeneration. Oh wait, this is what I heard on the TV directly behind me, verbatim, “New Study Links Daily Aspirin Use to Increased Risk of Age-Related Macular Degeneration” And that the results are: here’s the concise info.: “Research Results Published in January's Ophthalmology, the Journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology” and the site where I acquired a more in-depth informative narrative is: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/study-links-daily-aspirin-increased-163000759.html
And so, with the TV bombarding me and my well intentioned Googling bringing the exact story up, what is one gal to do, really?
Fascinating was my instant reaction, and then concern, with me taking aspirin for the last five, plus years and now having all these eye problems, it makes one wonder, ya know?
Gosh, I know I am weak, but doesn’t everyone know that already?
Nothing new here, hmm?
In a situation like this, what would you do?
I had been to my eye doc just the day before and so…I called the office!
Asked to speak to my surgeon retina specialist who bestowed my vitreous hemorrhage diagnosis on my righty eye. And I asked the phone tender my question and she assured me someone would get back to me, this was eight A.M. when the office opened.
By ten I was getting antsy and I didn’t want to miss the call but I wanted to take a shower, and so I called back. And a tech (eye) was put on the phone and told me that the doctor said if I wanted to I could get a second opinion on my diagnosis…OH NO this is not the way I wanted it to go… and after I did try to do that but the new doc wanted four hundred bucks just for a look see, since I am uninsured… But I realized they misunderstood why I called. All I really wanted to know was if the aspirin caused my hemorrhage, not that the doctor did anything wrong and I thought this diagnosis was correct, but to be honest what do I know? It sounded good to me that he said to wear just a patch and wait three weeks to be checked and that it should heal itself. I really like that way of handling it…no problem here. It must have been what Hubby said I had said… In my concern for my aspirin ingestion and also additional amounts of the afore mentioned drug due to the headaches my eye was causing I thought my eyes could be on an additional road to Macular Degeneration and that I felt that my doctor was so busy doing his job that perhaps he missed this month’s article in the American Academy of Ophthalmology! After all, he is a graduate of Johns Hopkins; one of the most respected medical schools in our country! OOPS, well, we all know me, but I didn’t mean it like it sounds, oh all right I guess I did.
Today I called and apologized, and apparently, no harm, no foul. The receptionist said I am still scheduled for my next visit and in the notes on my chart nothing mean was written or nasty or angry, she didn’t say that, but she did state what it said!
That I asked about the aspirin and that the doctor felt it did not cause my problem, whew!
Now you all remember that I have told all of you over and over again that I suffer from what I euphemistically call, Foot in Mouth Disease, here’s a perfect example of that!
To be honest though with all my readers I still feel if you know anyone with eye problems it is a very interesting article and that if you have more questions you should definitely ask a respected medico.
Now that I have confessed once again, as you know I will probably be up to no good eventually. I never seem to learn my lesson, especially when it comes to my curiosity about things better left, well alone.
Allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and to share all those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

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