BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Dec 09 - 05:11 AM

FFS

(((( Tom & Linn ))))


John

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: mouldy
Date: 09 Dec 09 - 04:32 AM

Thinking of you. Life's not fair!

Andrea x

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 09 Dec 09 - 04:19 AM

I thought I had posted a reply, but it was 'only' hugs & good wishes so it's easy to re-create

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Dec 09 - 04:02 AM

(((hugs)))... about all I can do really...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Dec 09 - 12:51 AM

The second site below gives a good overview but the first goes into excelleent depth.......Neither are a "good read." From what I can tell, if it was in fact central artey occlusion it would seem that the damage is done within the first two hours (or thereabouts). None of it sounds good Linn and to me it would warrant more than a damn post-it with something else happening later! (I'm with Rap.....Kill the Doc).......I'm sure you can find lots of sites but they all say pretty much the same thing.....sorry to say.

Tom has the porcine valve so he's not on warfarin is he? I'd forgotten that at first and I kept wondering how he got a clot. I don't know what you do next but I'm pretty convinced that "nothing til next week" ain't a good option even if the damage is done.

http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/799119-overview

http://www.stlukeseye.com/Conditions/ArteryOcclusion.asp


Much Love and Good Luck.......and let me know what, if anything, I can do from here.


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: ClaireBear
Date: 08 Dec 09 - 11:11 PM

I'm so sorry. No one should have to deal with crap like that, ever, much less when so much else is going wrong. Hugs all round.

Claire

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: maeve
Date: 08 Dec 09 - 10:32 PM

Thank you, Linn. I always want more information than I can get. I'll be interested in what you learn tomorrow.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Dec 09 - 10:17 PM

I have been so angry at the docs I've been to in the past six months because of the way they cavalierly toss off this possibility and that, all scary as hell...it made so frustrated and scared, I now have PTSD and am being treated for major depression. I wish you, my friends, were not experiencing some of the same kind of crap. You have all the care and support I can muster. It will slow down and get better...just don't let the bastards get you down and make them give you some info! (I know you know this and will.:-)

with all my love,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: bobad
Date: 08 Dec 09 - 10:09 PM

Is this a blood clot? If it is, immediate intervention is called for otherwise permanent loss of vision may result.

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Dec 09 - 10:00 PM

Eye doctor oughta be shot. If that's what it is.

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Dec 09 - 09:32 PM

I'll be thinking about the both of you. We are fragile beings at the same time that we are incredibly strong. {{{{hug}}}}

Subject: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 08 Dec 09 - 09:28 PM

Well, Tom's been having a problem with a sporadic blurry patch in his left eye. He checked with his primary care doctor who referred him to an ophthalmologist whom he saw today. Despite leaving there with a Post-it with "Central retinal artery occlusion left eye" written on it, and appointments for blood work and a more specific echo cardiogram, and an appointment with another ophthalmologist next week (yes, at the same time he's supposed to be getting the rest of the vocal cord cancer removed, but not to change that date yet), I'm left wondering if they actually think that's what the problem is.

Everything I read about retinal artery occlusion indicates it's an emergency situation -- something needs to be done RIGHT NOW or the vision loss is permanent.

Maybe I can get some answers tomorrow (Wed), my day off, from one or several of his doctors, but right now I'm just confused.

Tom is, I think, both worried and frustrated because he has no real information either about a) what it is, b) what treatment there is, and (very importantly) c) how this will affect his ongoing cancer treatment (not to mention his general health -- one online source cites percentage increase in other potentially fatal problems because of retinal artery occlusion).

We would probably worry a lot less with a few actual facts.

Linn