Just wondering.......

[zelda_pinwheel]

aaah, the ongoing saga of Harv and Vera. that's certainly not a connotation i ever expected to have with the ophtalmo.

[Taylor514ce]

You really have to admire their enduring passion.

[zelda_pinwheel]

oh, absolutely. it's refreshing to see such ongoing devotion, especially in this day and age.

[Taylor514ce]

Vera knew Harv'd be home soon. She could nearly feel the rumble of his semi through the floor of the trailer. It'd been a long haul. At first of course she liked having him out of her hair. She could air out the trailer, go out with her girlfriends, get a little readin' done. (Harv's idear of literature was the Victoria's Secret catalog. Vera knew the secret, she thought to herself as she squeezed and wriggled into a teddy. Them models ain't got no bosoms.)

But a woman needs her man, no matter what cousin Peg said, always going on about her various DEE-vices and such. Ain't no "thingie" could guzzle a six-pack, slap and tickle, and throw her around the bedroom like her man. It takes a MAN to move a gal her size, she thought.

One more glance around the kitchenette to make sure all was ready... pork chops and taters with ketchup, his favorite. Cherry pie just starting to bubble in the oven, the filling oozing out here and there, just like me in my teddy, she thought, with a giggle that turned into a snort-snort-snort.

Oh Lordy, he's home... and already hitching hisself out of his overalls before he'd even reached the door. Vera had just enough time to think, "guess I'll be reheating dinner later" as she braced herself for a flying tackle. The trick's to roll with it, she thought.

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

aaah, the ongoing saga of Harv and Vera. that's certainly not a connotation i ever expected to have with the ophtalmo.

Ah, yes, the three rules of online forums like this:

1) There is a form of topic gravity that tends to drag all threads into the gutter.

2) If a comment can be interpreted in more than one way, it will be interpreted in the way you didn't intend, especially if the possible interpretation is salacious.

3) If the topic isn't drifting into the gutter, topic proctors will be happy to shove it in, head first.

______
Dennis

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by AJ Starr

Like I said, a lot of milage......

For those of you who said you have them bad.... I'm placing the link to that site I mentioned....

http://www.eyefloaters.com/

Disclaimer...I have no relation with this company, I have no knowledge of whether it is a scam or not. I just noticed it in a news artlce one time and looked it up.

If anyone does proceed with this, I'd love to hear from you.

Alsyon

If I do ... with my luck it will be easy to spot me. I'll be the one with the red-tipped cane and the seeing eye dog.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

Ah, yes, the three rules of online forums like this:

1) There is a form of topic gravity that tends to drag all threads into the gutter.

2) If a comment can be interpreted in more than one way, it will be interpreted in the way you didn't intend, especially if the possible interpretation is salacious.

3) If the topic isn't drifting into the gutter, topic proctors will be happy to shove it in, head first.

______
Dennis

you've noticed that too then... be careful what you say around here, you have no idea where a perfectly innocent remark can lead.


trust me on this.

(you should do a forum search for harv and vera though if you haven't met them yet ; they're recurring characters around here and the saga of their Everlasting Love is worth following from the beginning.)

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

(you should do a forum search for harv and vera though if you haven't met them yet ; they're recurring characters around here and the saga of their Everlasting Love is worth following from the beginning.)

Ahhhh, okay. I was wondering who and what they were. I'll have to go search for them....... (someday)

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by AJ Starr

Boy, this group can really get their money's worth out of any topic!!

...and now you too are lost down this rabbit hole. [insert evil laugh]. One of us! One of us!

FYI, if any of you do have severe floaters, there is one doctor who is experimenting with a laser treatment to "burn up" the floaters. I've been tempted.

I've only looked at the Wikipedia article, and not the sources, but, although it now mentions the laser treatment, a previous version of this part of the page said:

"This procedure can be time-consuming and there is no consensus as to how completely effective it is. One study found laser vitreolysis "to be a safe but only moderately effective primary treatment conferring clinical benefit in one third of patients"."

However, this bit is gone from Wikipedia now. My point is, if it was me and I'd seen this, I'm be researching the crap out of it first (I know, that's probably a given).

What say you crazy guys and gals.................

What say me? I say what I say whenever someone calls me a crazy guys and gals - cherryPOPboingwokkawokkawokka.

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

I've always thought of one particular floater I've had for decades, which has a curious shape, as the most secret of secrets that one could have. Something like a password that I would never have to worry about losing or forgetting or having someone else find out about. Okay, it's a bit weird, I'll admit.

That's definitely weird, and not just a bit. It's why we love you, VR. How's that Ballard quote go? Something like, "In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom".

Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

I want mine gone. I'd do that laser surgery.

See above. If they are the odds, they still, of course, may be worth it to you.

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

...
I later saw a picture of it in a science mag ... and thought the article was going to be one floaters ... then read the caption that said it was a very common aura of "classic migraine."...

It wasn't New Scientist, was it? They once did a great special on the subject.

The cool thing was, after my major cancer surgery ... and after they removed just a whole host of organs ... the migraines pretty much stopped. I know there's probably no logical connection .... but they still did. I now get maybe one a year ... if that. Still with the same aura.

Did your blood pressure change after the operation (due to lifestyle changes perhaps)? Did you stop eating certain foods (eg. coffee)? I think there is probably a logical connection, perhaps associated with "triggers"...as you know as a migraine-sufferer though, it's just bloody hard to find it!

Mum stopped getting migraines as often when she went on blood pressure medication. I get them much less if I stop drinking coffee (you would think I would stop drinking coffee then, wouldn't you? ).

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

Ah, yes, the three rules of online forums like this:

1) There is a form of topic gravity that tends to drag all threads into the gutter.

I never got out to have ever needed dragging back in.

2) If a comment can be interpreted in more than one way, it will be interpreted in the way you didn't intend, especially if the possible interpretation is salacious.

He he...boobies.

3) If the topic isn't drifting into the gutter, topic proctors will be happy to shove it in, head first.

You rang?

Cheers,
Marc (If I study "proctoring", does that make me a "Proctologist"?)

[RWood]

This thread has now entered the Limbo Zone -- how low can you go?

[This is not a call to competition.]

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Did your blood pressure change after the operation (due to lifestyle changes perhaps)? Did you stop eating certain foods (eg. coffee)? I think there is probably a logical connection, perhaps associated with "triggers"...as you know as a migraine-sufferer though, it's just bloody hard to find it!

Mum stopped getting migraines as often when she went on blood pressure medication. I get them much less if I stop drinking coffee (you would think I would stop drinking coffee then, wouldn't you? ).

My SO suffers from migraines. Hers are due to a list of food allergies as long as your arm. No seafood. No meats preserved with nitrites. No red wine. No chocolate. Don't even look at a fresh pepper (though oddly, dried peppers are not a problem.)

She grew up on seafood, living in an area near the sea. The migraines didn't come on till she hit puberty. she's been known to grab my arm and whimper when we pass a place serving soft shell crab, because she loves it. Unfortunately, it doesn't love her.

I never got out to have ever needed dragging back in.

Tell me something I didn't know.

He he...boobies.

Silly birds.

You rang?

Cheers,
Marc (If I study "proctoring", does that make me a "Proctologist"?)

Depends on what head you are shoving where, no?
______
Dennis

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

My SO suffers from migraines. Hers are due to a list of food allergies as long as your arm. No seafood. No meats preserved with nitrites. No red wine. No chocolate. Don't even look at a fresh pepper (though oddly, dried peppers are not a problem.)

Although not a trigger for me, anything containing capsaicin (chillis, capsicum, etc) can often be a partial or total relief (a good Thai curry works well at this juncture). I've been known to swig a large tablespoon of sweet chilli sauce for relief, after all the usual drugs have failed. I remember reading in the New Scientist article that blood pressure can strongly be associated with migraine, so the effect of capsaicin (positive or negative) doesn't surprise me.

There are people here who will be shocked and distraught by the "chocolate" reference. Oddly, in the last couple of years, chocolate has become a trigger for me where it wasn't before (white chocolate is less so, though too much sugar can also be a trigger).

She grew up on seafood, living in an area near the sea. The migraines didn't come on till she hit puberty. she's been known to grab my arm and whimper when we pass a place serving soft shell crab, because she loves it. Unfortunately, it doesn't love her.

I've never noted any seafood connection, though my awareness of triggers is not thorough. I'll have to start making a migraine diary though, as they've been coming back where they'd previously left me in peace for at least a month at a time.

Tell me something I didn't know.

I once got my head stuck for 15 minutes between the railings of a railway overpass.

Silly birds.

Tee hee. Very good.

Depends on what head you are shoving where, no?

Dennis, meet gutter; gutter, Dennis.

Cheers,
Marc

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Although not a trigger for me, anything containing capsaicin (chillis, capsicum, etc) can often be a partial or total relief (a good Thai curry works well at this juncture). I've been known to swig a large tablespoon of sweet chilli sauce for relief, after all the usual drugs have failed. I remember reading in the New Scientist article that blood pressure can strongly be associated with migraine, so the effect of capsicum (positive or negative) doesn't surprise me.

As mentioned, dried peppers aren't a problem. It's only fresh ones. So it isn't clear that capsicum per se is a cause.

There are people here who will be shocked and distraught by the "chocolate" reference. Oddly, in the last couple of years, chocolate has become a trigger for me where it wasn't before (white chocolate is less so, though too much sugar can also be a trigger).

She can eat it, but not very much of it. She doesn't especially like it, so that's not a huge loss. I have no problem with it, but it isn't one of my favorite foods, and it doesn't normally occur to me to buy it.

I've never noted any seafood connection, though my awareness of triggers is not thorough. I'll have to start making a migraine diary though, as they've been coming back where they'd previously left me in peace for at least a month at a time.

The SO can't go near it. She's made noises about saying "Screw it!" and going for a lobster dinner, knowing she'll be prostrate in 72 hours with a blinding migraine. I tell her to go right ahead, abut not to expect me to be sympathetic or provide nursing services when it occurs. I'll go somewhere else for the duration. "I guess that means I shouldn't do it, then." "Right!"

We suspect that freshwater fish won't; be a problem, but haven't gotten around to confirming that by experiment.

I once got my head stuck for 15 minutes between the railings of a railway overpass.

Dennis carefully avoids asking "Which head?"...

Dennis, meet gutter; gutter, Dennis.

Thanks, but we're old friends.

Cheers,
Marc

______
Dennis

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

...
Dennis carefully avoids asking "Which head?"...
...

The top one, though you've just added another definition to the term "trainspotting".

Cheers,
Marc

[vivaldirules]

Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

Vera knew Harv'd be home soon. She could nearly feel the rumble of his semi through the floor of the trailer. It'd been a long haul. At first of course she liked having him out of her hair. She could air out the trailer, go out with her girlfriends, get a little readin' done. (Harv's idear of literature was the Victoria's Secret catalog. Vera knew the secret, she thought to herself as she squeezed and wriggled into a teddy. Them models ain't got no bosoms.)

But a woman needs her man, no matter what cousin Peg said, always going on about her various DEE-vices and such. Ain't no "thingie" could guzzle a six-pack, slap and tickle, and throw her around the bedroom like her man. It takes a MAN to move a gal her size, she thought.

One more glance around the kitchenette to make sure all was ready... pork chops and taters with ketchup, his favorite. Cherry pie just starting to bubble in the oven, the filling oozing out here and there, just like me in my teddy, she thought, with a giggle that turned into a snort-snort-snort.

Oh Lordy, he's home... and already hitching hisself out of his overalls before he'd even reached the door. Vera had just enough time to think, "guess I'll be reheating dinner later" as she braced herself for a flying tackle. The trick's to roll with it, she thought.

Thank you, PH. It's nice to see that Harv and Vera (and pie, of course) are still alive. But I see they're ailing a touch in this thread about the frailties of the mere physical body. Must return now to the concerns of the mind and the unearthly deviations that lie within (MWAHAHAHA!). The inner nature of being is the only nature of being worth nurturing. And it can only be known through the temple in youse temple. Harv and Vera lie there (but also on the floor of their kitchenette - frequently) twixt the notions of enduring passion and everlasting insight. You've heard of penguins in the pantry and koalas in the cupboard but have you ever heard of gibbons in the ganglia? Course you 'ave! They be the distortions in yon noggin - that nuclear device within the cavernous container at the top. Just take a breath, let go, and let it breathe life into all. Release the gibbon of the spurious and conspicuous adventure! Stand and prepare to be enthralled!! It's ALIVE!!!