Professer 
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Have had similar problems Lesley had a email asking how i could eat at the shandwick and the waterfront in inverneshire when i live in Lincoln.
Sent a rather sarcastic message back saying i jumped in my blue police box called the tardis takes me wher ever i want. lol
Reply #5101. Sep 17 12, 8:41 AM
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| lesley153
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And the email was from TripAdvisor? Surely not!
A few years ago, I got a prescription, held onto it for a week, got another one, and took them both to be made up together. The woman on the pharmacy counter asked me why the ages on the two forms were different.
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Difficult visit today. My niece rang me yesterday afternoon, and we'd had a good chat. At lunchtime today, I rang the ward, and was assured that she could have visitors.
When I arrived, she was lying back with her eyes closed, the same colour as her sheets. Within seconds, someone was standing next to me, introducing herself as a medical registrar, asking if I was next of kin? family? and could she have a word with me over here. She said my niece was fine earlier but had become "unwell and unresponsive" an hour or two earlier, and they were going to conduct some tests. I as hugely relieved when her sister appeared!
She blinked and moved her head when I spoke to her, which the registrar said was more responsive than she had been earlier. She said she wanted her husband. I stayed while her sister dashed off to get her husband, and when they took her off for tests, by which time she had come to a bit and was talking normally. I said I'd stay till her husband came or I got chucked out.
I chatted to a couple of visitors who had turned up just as she was being wheeled off, with flowers they weren't allowed to take in, took a picture of them standing outside with the flowers, went and got myself something to eat, got back in time to see her wheeled back. Her husband didn't come and I stayed till I got chucked out.
I was out for eight hours. I shall sleep well tonight. |
Reply #5102. Sep 17 12, 4:42 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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Oh dear, I do hope the niece will come around after her tests! That is such a scary thing. Fine and recovering, and suddenly again, in the rough.
Best of luck.
Reply #5103. Sep 17 12, 9:44 PM
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Professer
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Sorry to hear that Lesley hope the test help and niece improves rapidly and can soon be at home.
Reply #5104. Sep 18 12, 1:45 AM
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| lesley153
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| Thanks, it was scary (it's not the first time it's happened), and it is all she wants to do - to go home. Still they are, at last, taking the best care of her that they can, and not taking any chances. Example: a test that involves breaking the skin, and is normally done on the ward, will be done in theatre, in a sterile environment. Good. It's the least she deserves. |
Reply #5105. Sep 18 12, 7:54 AM
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Professer
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That sounds the sensible approach just hope it works out well Leasley for your niece.
Reply #5106. Sep 18 12, 9:34 AM
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Jazmee27
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I’m getting behind… lol.
Belated Happy New Year, Lesley.
Wow, that’s a scathing message if ever I read one!
Hope your niece gets well soon, and that the tests reveal some options.
Reply #5108. Sep 18 12, 1:10 PM
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| lesley153
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Thanks, Jazmee, and it's not late - it's yesterday and today. The last day of the old year and the first day of the new.
I think they're doing all the tests because they've messed her up badly over the last couple of years and they're trying to do all the right things now.
Which is the scathing bit? |
Reply #5109. Sep 18 12, 1:27 PM
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| lesley153
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Forgot to mention - her husband didn't come because he was asleep, and big sister didn't like to wake him. By the time he woke up, he wouldn't have been able to make it for visiting hours - but he did go as soon as he could the next morning.
He's looking after their three children, between about seven and thirteen, who can probably dress themselves but I don't know what other self-maintenance skills they've learnt. Probably not very many. So I guess he's allowed to be tired. |
Reply #5110. Sep 20 12, 2:14 PM
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| lesley153
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Oh and I had an email from TripAdvisor. They've apologised and reinstated the original review of the Pheasant, although they still haven't said why they pulled it.
Better yet, they've left the narky one, and it's already had one "helpful" vote. |
Reply #5111. Sep 20 12, 2:21 PM
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Professer
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Like the trip advisor Lelsey well done there. Hope relative improves so she can be home with the children will be good for her.
Reply #5112. Sep 20 12, 3:19 PM
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| lesley153
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Thanks, Gary - is that the "get a grip" one?
She did say a few times, she just wants to go home. A nurse asked if there was anything she could do for her. "Yes please, pick this bed up and take it to my house."
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Reply #5113. Sep 20 12, 3:47 PM
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Jazmee27
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I think I've said similar in hospital (along with "if someone doesn't remove this [expletive] IV then I will."]
Reply #5114. Sep 20 12, 5:05 PM
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| lesley153
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| I think we all have. I've watched people pull their own out. Sad to watch. |
Reply #5115. Sep 20 12, 5:27 PM
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| lesley153
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Is there anyone here who's got, or knows anyone who has, three pairs of glasses? I have distance glasses, and reading glasses, and isn't that enough for anyone? Yes, I've resisted all attempts to have bifocals or varifocals. I've heard too many stories of people falling upstairs (or downstairs) and I don't want to join them.
Anyway, my lenses are too small for graduated power, and lenses that were big enough would be too heavy, so when opticians start telling me I can't live without varifocals - oh yes I can.
Today I went back to where I got the last two pairs of glasses to get the distance pair adjusted, for the umpteenth time. They were wonky when I got them, I've gone in with them wonky, and come out with them wonky. The only way I can get them straight is to have them touch my ear on one side, and float above the other ear. Not satisfactory!
On the way, I stopped to look at the goodies in a jewellery shop window, but couldn't read the prices. I did something I've never done before - put my reading glasses on!
So when I got there, I mentioned the price tags. When I first got these glasses, I was in an unfamiliar part of London, and couldn't read the street names.
Today's optician man said he changed the curve on one of the earpieces - apparently it was curving too soon. That's a new one on me.
He said we all get to a point where we can no longer accommodate, and there'll be one point at which any pair of glasses will work. Do I wear my reading glasses at the computer? No, I just do CTRL + scroll if I want to make anything bigger. Aaah, he said, a lot of people find their distance glasses are too strong and their reading glasses aren't strong enough - so they have a third pair of glasses for the computer. That's a new one on me too.
My old glasses were straight, and worked just fine. I need to find another optician who'll get the right prescription, without trying to make me buy varifocals, prescription sunglasses, and now computer glasses.
Unless anyone has got three and says it's a good idea? |
Reply #5116. Sep 21 12, 5:10 PM
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satguru
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I have no idea from this side I'm using varifocals, it took a short time to stop seeing the wobbles and now looks totally normal. As they have continuous variation it works whichever distance you look but cost me ten times (almost to the pound) more than the single vision so now don't like the more and more frequent times I'm told to change them (last time as only a quarter but is easier to read) although I go around every year as 'at risk' due to family history. This was the first clear run since going multifocal so got off quite lightly. My black glasses have no problem fitting them in and don't think they were any deeper than yours so you may manage it although may need squarer ones so the reading part is wider. I wanted to become an optician myself but couldn't handle the maths on the course so I know all the ins and outs, and worked for a dispenser for a week before he shut the shop as empty the whole time.
I just found an email you sent me in May (I have no idea how they hide, it wasn't the first one I found I thought wasn't there as I thought I always checked them properly) about blog comments, and agree 100%. My proper blog has hits, and begun on about 50 a day till they dropped the profile links, and never recovered since they came back but are finally now in double figures again and have a few comments a year although plenty of people read it. I think it's like phone ins, a few people call compared to the thousands who listen. Plus now we don't have the comment boxes it seems to put some people off as I think they were more attractive to open than this format. But while I'm here I'll invite many more comments to mine as well as I don't need anything profound, a hello will do very well as well.
Reply #5117. Sep 21 12, 8:44 PM
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Professer
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I need Glasses for reading and use them for computer work too, i used to have varivocals but there never seemed much difference.
My vision improved 100% 5 years ago whne i had my cataracts done had them in both eyes the end result once they settled down was a trip to specsavers who did my eye test and said you do not need glasses anymore other then for reading, Lesley do not know if they checked you for cataracts or not but as i had a massive improvement from having mine dealt with, i would suggest that is queried, you would not need varivocals or any other glasses other then for reading.
Reply #5118. Sep 22 12, 2:08 AM
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| lesley153
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David, it's good to know that the wobblies don't last for ever, but the price difference sounds scary. When I was with Dollond and Aitchison - I left them to get away from Boots - if my new prescription wasn't very different from the old one, the optician would say don't bother, unless you particularly want new frames - see you next time.
Now I'm back with Boots (more by inertia than by choice - Boots bought D&A, and it requires effort to find a new optician...), if the new prescription isn't very different, they ask me if I'd like to update the frames anyway, or get sunglasses... This time, the strength hadn't changed much or at all, but apparently there was a 15 degree change in my astigmatism, and I was practically frog-marched to the frame displays.
Because my lenses are so strong, the distance and reading glasses cost £330, and that was after deduction of the NHS discount of about £14. I am now scared to ask how much varifocals would cost, and nobody has yet volunteered the information. I don't think they would get away with applying a ten times differential to £300!
Thanks, Gary, but that's a standard examination too. You know that bit when they shine a bright light in your eyes?
My reaction to the suggestion of a third pair was "is there no end to the lengths they'll go to to get inside my wallet?" but I may be doing them a most unkind injustice, and there may be older and/or wiser people here who know better. |
Reply #5119. Sep 22 12, 7:07 AM
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satguru
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The varifocal lenses cost between £100-£150, yours may be a bit more if stronger but the discount place I get everything else for is cheaper but the lenses they produced were lousy for them so rather pay for ones I can see with in all directions. The markup is around 900% on frames in most outfits and you need to find the odd exception somewhere who sell at reasonable prices. It's a real ripoff as very few will break ranks. Single vision lenses shouldn't cost more than £20 which also provides a decent profit margin as well. I think Specsavers are cheaper though and most places have them.
Reply #5120. Sep 22 12, 8:33 AM
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