On 1/13/2012 02:30, Bulent Celasun wrote:
Ann,
These are just like wrinkles we get inevitably as we experience life...
Try regarding them as nuisances rather than health problems.
They can not effect your photography, if yo do not let them ;)
Hope you feel better soon.
Bulent
Bulent - I "feel" fine - and what is amiss is "controllable" that is,
like high blood pressure, glaucoma is something doesn't tell you its
there unless it is acute - which, thank heaven, it isn't. I'm afraid I
was a long time in getting my eyes checked (5 years) for various reasons.
Alas, attitude has nothing to do with whether they affect my photography
- both glaucoma the little cataracts have already
affected it...
It is my regarding certain signals as nuisances is probably partly what
got me to this state - not getting checked often enough.
Condition isn't dire, not a life threatening thing, but nothing
to brush off either.
I'm grateful it is chronic glaucoma and not acute glaucoma.
I have to disagree with you - treating certain signs of malfunction
of body as a nuisance and therefore not checking into on sufficiently
early symptoms has robbed me of a lover and a number of friends.
The cataract surgery will be needed eventually, maybe not yet, and
that will be a "nuisance" in a sense but a necessary one. Taking
meds to keep the glaucoma from getting worse is a "nuisance" that
is necessary...
I'm lucky what is wrong isn't worse - but it does affect my vision
including my critiques of others works as well as needing auto focus.
It certainly affects my (or anyone's) photography and my viewing the
works of others as well as how often I drop things because I have
already lost periferal vision enough so that i would be a danger behind
the wheel.. I knew that, I just didnt' know it was glaucoma.
It isn't going to curtail my photography, it just as good
as it might be if I had healthy eyes.
I breathed a sigh of relief that don't have the acute form
of glaucoma that causes blindness pretty fast, I assure you.
Now my main concern is that the meds dont' cost too much
ann
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2012/1/13 Ann Sanfedele<[email protected]>:
On 1/12/2012 20:41, steve harley wrote:
on 2012-01-12 15:21 Ann Sanfedele wrote
Ok "details at 11" figuratively.
Not such good news..
glaucoma - but at least it is controllable.
cataracts as well - though small.
sounds like you did a good thing to get checked; i'm on watch for
glaucoma, since my ophthamologist noticed certain possible precursors
(so far so good); my opth. is old school so he had me do the manual
"light dots inside the hemisphere" test, which i actually enjoyed
is that the green and red stuff? they didn't do that this time to me.
Thanks everyone for your support. Could be a lot worse and I've been
so lucky health wise in general.
One thing about the exam - when they did the initial quick check to see what
i could see they had me look through a lens at a beautiful scene..
one familiar to me.. a two lane in the southwest stretch toward the
montains... looked like one of the roads from the GC to The mountains
where Flagstaff is, or from a prairie road to any of several mountain
ranges.
The doc is assocated with Columbia Presbeterian - glad I got her.
ann
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