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20 Jan 09 - 03:42 AM (#2543720) Subject: BS: Floaters, whew! From: Fossil Some several years ago I had a great big floater in my left eye which lead, via the kind ministrations of a friend who dragged me into her car and took me to the (then) local Brussels teaching hospital, where I was first assessed, then lasered and then (very unpleasantly) cryosugeried, until the flotaer went away and my partially detached retina was firmly reattached, Before Christmas, I had a moderate floater in my right eye, so I took it to our local opthalmologist, who sent me immediately down to the Wellington Eye Unit, where a partial retinal separation was reattached, and subesquently pronouned good. Tonight, yet another floater, as I read through the endless interesting threads on the Mudcat. Bugger, I thought, visualising the endless forms of abuse and discomfort attending yet another retinal separation. And then the ant walked off the bottom of the screen..... Whew! |
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20 Jan 09 - 03:49 AM (#2543723) Subject: RE: BS: Floaters, whew! From: Morticia I was desperately cleaning and recleaning my windscreen this morning and eventually thought, damn, it must be scratched. It isn't....my specs are. |
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20 Jan 09 - 04:10 AM (#2543733) Subject: RE: BS: Floaters, whew! From: Lizzie Cornish 1 I'm really pleased the 'ant' has left the building, Fossil. I hope you continue to improve and this is the last retinal problem you have to endure. I remember my younger cousin having to have retinal detachments repaired, in both eyes, when she was still only a teenager. She's been fine ever since, and that was over 25 years back. Get well. :0) |
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20 Jan 09 - 05:31 AM (#2543763) Subject: RE: BS: Floaters, whew! From: Nigel Parsons The thread title conjured up a completely different subject matter. On this occasion I was pleasantly surprised! |
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20 Jan 09 - 05:47 AM (#2543777) Subject: RE: BS: Floaters, whew! From: Michael Nigel - my reaction too! Used to know a bloke who worked in a "processing station" who called them 'Shredded Wheat 'uns'. His job(pun not intended) was to break them up with a long stick!!! Mike |
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20 Jan 09 - 05:47 AM (#2543778) Subject: RE: BS: Floaters, whew! From: catspaw49 Thought this was about having problems flushing the head perhaps............I mean it wouldn't be the first time we've discussed it and also whether or not "floaters" were a good indicator of fiber in your diet. Spaw |
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20 Jan 09 - 06:46 AM (#2543819) Subject: RE: BS: Floaters, whew! From: Sandra in Sydney I have floaters in both eyes - wot fun! little clouds drifting across things, sometimes very obvious, other times I even forget I have 'em. Mine never injured my retinas, tho I had an interesting time in the Eye Hospital after the second happened. I had seen an amazing optical illusion of wiggly shapes rushing off from my eye into the distance! Obviously I was seeing the veins & little floaty bits on the retina, but it caused the triage nurse to ask if I had taken drugs!, tho the Opthalmologist had known similar cases. sandra |
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20 Jan 09 - 10:00 AM (#2543972) Subject: RE: BS: Floaters, whew! From: kendall In NYC a floater is a dead body that has risen to the surface and is bloated with gases. |
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20 Jan 09 - 11:01 AM (#2544031) Subject: RE: BS: Floaters, whew! From: SINSULL Bet me to it, Kendall. Floaters are regular "finds" on Jamaica Bay. |
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20 Jan 09 - 11:29 AM (#2544059) Subject: RE: BS: Floaters, whew! From: Trevor My partner came out of the supermarket, went to drive away and stopped absolutely rigid - she told me her vision was going and she was sure she was having a stroke. One of the lenses had fallen out of her specs........! |
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20 Jan 09 - 12:27 PM (#2544098) Subject: RE: BS: Floaters, whew! From: Rapparee I thought this was about bodies found in a harbor. |
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20 Jan 09 - 01:06 PM (#2544139) Subject: RE: BS: Floaters, whew! From: Charmion I am another survivor of retinal separation, but in my case it wasn't floaters but a grey shadow that I first took for a pillow feather caught in my eyelashes. My other eye is crossed and consequently already functionally blind, so it was a major emergency. The laser surgery was really quite nasty. Four years later, I still have lots of clutter in my vision, and occasionally get scared by phenomena like the ant on Fossil's computer screen. Most recently it was a fruit fly on my spectacles ... Now, that was embarrassing. |
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21 Jan 09 - 02:37 AM (#2544733) Subject: RE: BS: Floaters, whew! From: Gurney Charmion, have you ever listened to Derek Brimstone? .."The whipped him into hospital and operated on him for a hole in his heart. It was a polo mint in his shirt pocket!".. Polo mint. Sweet shaped like a lifesaver. Sorry. Just reminded me. |
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21 Jan 09 - 12:22 PM (#2545204) Subject: RE: BS: Floaters, whew! From: Backwoodsman "The thread title conjured up a completely different subject matter." To some, it may conjure up images of corpses and turds. To a son of Lincolnshire, it conjures up slices of 'Old' (i.e. large) potato, coated in batter and deep-fried. Yum-Yum (especially with HP sauce). |
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21 Jan 09 - 12:53 PM (#2545233) Subject: RE: BS: Floaters, whew! From: McGrath of Harlow Thanks for that information, Backwoodsman, in case I'm ever in a Lincolnshire chippy. That could have avoid a nasty misunderstanding... |
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21 Jan 09 - 01:02 PM (#2545243) Subject: RE: BS: Floaters, whew! From: SINSULL "in a Lincolnshire chippie" conjures up a few misunderstandings too. |
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22 Jan 09 - 12:38 AM (#2545744) Subject: RE: BS: Floaters, whew! From: Gurney 'He stands on the corner with a fag in his mouth...' Lots of them about, eh, SINSULL? |
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22 Jan 09 - 06:49 PM (#2546519) Subject: RE: BS: Floaters, whew! From: GUEST,Allan S. Hi there mudcat.. One of the reasons that an M.D. would want to know if your stools [BM's] float is that you may not be properly digesting the fat in your diet. Fat rises in water. |