Better get your own eye bleach out before scrolling down, just sayin’….
I told him that it was mighty nice of them to let him keep his Mu Mu and to watch out for that guy wanting to give him a sponge bath.
Maybe now he will finally be able to see the pictures on this blog, starting with a good look at himself.
LOL!
Best wishes for a speedy recovery Mate.
My thoughts and prayers are with you Johnno. Praying that the surgery is successful.
Thanks Miss Sandy, I had a Yank girly nurse help me in the shower last night, making sure that I wasn’t washing my hair and potentially getting water in my wounded eye. Her name was Sandy too, she was quite friendly also. I was a bit too groggy to notice if she had a Ka-Bar among her gear.
Was that you, have you emigrated? If it was just the hospital dope, I’ll better get some to take home with me.
Good luck, Aussie. Now I can why the bond with your mum was so strong.
You truly have a face only a mother could love. Nah, I’m just bustin on you.
Hurry back on your road to recovery.
Heal up soon, Johnno! We need you to keep Cedarq in line.
Cederq Judy, Cederq
grammer nazi. Get will John
See what happens when you turn me loose with a keyboard.
Since the eyes are ‘hardwired’ together, both are moving. This means scar tissue after surgery won’t heal properly. This delays recovery and causes a lot of pain to boot.
That was my experience following surgery to remove melanoma on my left eye. Maybe it doesn’t apply here.
You’re dead right, Rick. In August ‘21, I was intubated and under a general anaesthetic during eye surgery, but the doctors say that I began coughing and sat up. Unfortunately I had two instruments inside my eye and had a head-on with the overhead microscope, and my eye was cut up really bad, also two arteries torn off the eye wall and severed.
I was on the table for hours while they tried repairing things, and when I awoke in recovery, everything was dark and I didn’t know where I was, who I bloody was or why I hurt so bad. When two Nursing Sisters appeared finally, they screamed to stop and lay back until they got a doctor to inspect my wound, as in my drugged stupor I’d ripped my dressing off and made my eye bleed, but luckily no extra harm done. The doc explained the circumstances while redressing my eye.
I returned home the next day, without pain meds for the eye. I thought that I knew a bit about pain, but holy shit, the scene from “Aliens” when a juvenile monster bursts from the bloke’s gut, was akin to what it felt like inside my ocular orbit.
At the time, I wasn’t fully aware of the extent of the damage done to my eye, and that all the sutures and scarring was inflaming my eye’s surrounding tissues, causing much pain
during every eye movement.
I seriously considered topping myself. The system did not work, as I couldn’t drive to the ED in my condition and could not afford a taxi. I empathise with other vision-impaired and blind individuals. I was once an avid shooting sports competitor, it was almost a vocation, and I dreamt of returning to the sport despite my problems with the Stasi. I doubt that will occur now.
Well I don’t see anything wrong with the man’s attire and I DONT appreciate your bullying!
What colour of crocs would you put with that ensemble, sir?
heliotrope of course
My! What a hairy chest you have Aussie, why my pretty , it is to overwhelm you with testosterone… One wonders if that is your emotional age or IQ you are displaying? Ya know, a hair cap ain’t doing you any good unless ya cover all your curly locks. Are those tights, or compression stockings on your your legs? Me? I think tights. Finally, who dresses you? Homeless street urchins? Glad you had the surgery! Get better, so Death and me can harangue you unmercifully and you can actually see what it is we are haranguing you with.
emotional age or IQ…….nether
That’s his rectal thermometer
The compression hose are applied before surgery now, although diabetics were always told not to wear such, I suppose a few hours are okay. The day-glow flexible booties are so they can easily spot any runners, I suppose.
I’ve seen the term Mu-mu in old private-eye/crime novels, at least now I know what one is. Seeing as the surgery was done under a local anaesthetic, I kept my shirt and shorts on under my hospital gown.
Including the original botched surgery, this was my 14th trip from Cairns to Brisbane since August ‘21, so the poor taxpayers kept the airlines happy. The air hosties will be sad that I only have another trip, but I’ve been trying to find the lucky seat that Ralph Feinnes used with that QANTAS hostie a few years back.
Because of spinal stenosis, I cannot sit in one spot for longer than a few minutes without acute pain. Seeing as airlines now won’t accept you as a passenger if you have gas sealed in your eye after surgery, I’ve got to get a train or bus home , about 30 hours. I’ll have to OD on pain pills to get there. I know, gone soft in my old age, can’t help it.
I hope that I achieve binocular vision again, especially as Deathray wants to have a man-on-man shootout, even supplying the guns and ammo, and hopefully some targets too. If he has setup good matches for rifle, shotgun, pistol and machine-gun, then I will enjoy putting him in his place. Seeing as his girl Miss Stacey lost in Georgia, she may be available to be the target detail.
Thanks everyone for the get-well wishes.
You had outpatient eye surgery! No medical reason to apply compression stockings for a short term procedure. You are right about contraindicated for diabetics unless acute or chronic swelling of lymphadema or vascular effusion
I was admitted to hospital yesterday early AM, leaving tomorrow PM, though I’m a transfer patient from my home hospital up north. It’s Qld Health reasoning that instead of funding specialists in regional areas, they fly, train or bus the patients to and fro to Brisbane, or Briz-Vegas as people outside of southeast Queensland.
We all know that if you don’t live in the huge vote resource of Brisbane, you don’t count to the politicians.
I don’t need to worry about you showing up with or without your bionic eyes, Aussie. There won’t be any tax payers funding a trip for you to only be shamed. But, the invitation stands regardless. Maybe one of those websites that help fund different things will help you out. Oh, one other thing, no class 3 here. It’s all strictly legal. No way do I want to end up with a criminal record and defenseless like you.
I don’t have a criminal record. I leave that sort of thing to the experts in committing crime: the cops!
The Ted hose and non-skid booties are hospital required so Johno gets a pass for them. Let’s just be glad we don’t get a backside view of the gown that only ties at the neck. And what I tell every hospital patient is to whine, moan, and complain. You deserve everything you can get away with!
Greg, I have never worked or a patient in a hospital where Ted hoses were a required wearing. Had I been a patient, I would have told them to stuff them up their collective rectal vault. Ted hoses and other compression devices are not all their cracked up to be. They temporary alleviate one symptom and can cause multiple other problems.
Yes, a speedy and healthy recovery!
But – why the face mask? Is that back to mandatory in hospitals? ffs!
Dave, he is in the land of Aussie! Who knows what evil lurks in the hospital there, or they wanted to cover up as much of that face only a drunk mother could love, should have patched the other eye too…
Showing us the number of surgeries you have left, John-O?
Get better soon or we’ll send Nurse Wretched your way. Promise, mate!
Igor, when I have some vision with the right eye, I need to get the left one done. Due to acute diabetic blindness, and the medical accident and cataracts in each eye, I’ve had grossly degraded vision for a few years now.
No woman would share my life, so it’s difficult to deal with blindness, even when it’s just for a few days after Eylea intraocular injections and extension laser zaps to reattach the macular and retina. I thought my diabetes blood glucose level control was good, evidently not, but my ophthalmologist said I may have done the damage years ago.
Gives that most of Phil’s readers are old farts too, maybe a guest post by a cluey medic among the readership is warranted?