My main question is what happened to @Cheasty eye? Iâve seen it referenced numerous times here recently but I think I was out the day we covered that in class.
Detached retina. Heâs recovering well if todayâs performance is anything to go by.
Or not so well, depending on how you view it.
Well heâs thoroughly enjoying himself anyway.
Nice.
Ish. My gas bubble disappeared today. I have what you would term full sight from the eye in that I can see out of all of it but I have some metamorphopsia (where lines go wonky) and micropsia (where things look further away than they are) with knock on double vision and judging by my own research the likelihood is that this will be pretty much irreversible. Visual acuity is reduced though there may be some hope this could improve yet as it can do so up to six months or even in rare cases a year or two years.
Banging out stuff on a keyboard isnât too hard but reading and concentrating are more challenging.
My feeling is that when a doctor says the recovery is going perfectly, as was told to me, theyâre most likely talking about anatomical retina reattachment, ie. just putting the retina back on and getting sight of all of the eye. But there is a lot more small print, as it were, including microscopic wrinkles in the retina, which I think I have, and photoreceptor cell death, which cannot be regenerated, which starts to occur pretty soon after detachment. I had about 36 hours between proper symptoms and surgery. Thatâs not bad but it doesnât rule out complications, especially if you have had a dreaded macula off (as opposed to the slightly less serious macula on) retinal detachment, which Iâm pretty sure I had given that I was about 70% blind in the eye which pretty much means I was fully blind in it. The surgeon sort of of tried to fob me off when I asked him which it was and said it didnât matter but Iâm pretty sure thatâs not true.
I was reading today that the US has around 28k retinal detachment cases in a year. Given that the US has 66 times the population of Ireland, that would translate to 424 retinal detachments in Ireland per year. Iâm one of the chosen few.
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Imagine reaching a World Cup and then having it ruined by cancel culture. Itâs gone beyond a joke.
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Aye they should never have given it to Qatar, you need somewhere for the gays.
The Irish Ozzie and Kiwi contigent will be tearing the roof off with chants next year and itâll be glorious.
The long and the short of this is that Sky will withdraw their sponsorship. Whether thats before or after the world cup is up to them. But I suspect that there will be serious pressure put on them to withdraw beforehand
You knew more than a literal expert so?, righteo then.
I donât think that, but maybe you could clarify for me given youâre already well used to claiming you know more than the entirety of the worldâs serious science and medical communities.
Personally what I think he was doing was trying to reassure the patient by framing things in as positive a light as possible but the reality often doesnât match that and retinal detachments are notoriously prone to complex recoveries with the outcome being unpredictableâŚ
Indeed, if only you werenât so eager to pump yourself with shotgun vaccines then maybe you could have avoided this whole episode.
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This Celtic Symphony stuff has me fierce annoyed
- Itâs a song about a Scottish team and Glasgow
- The Up The Ra reference refers to whatâs written on the wall at paradise i.e. Celtic Park Iâm assuming
- The actual lyrics are âIt says Oh Ah Up The Ra, says Oh Ah Up The Raâ. Itâs describing graffiti, not glorifying the IRA.
- The Sky lad is a sexist pig
Anyway, explaining = losing etc.
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A poor manâs Jim White or Jeff Stelling. A nobody who theyâd have on doing a Sky Sports bulletin on a Monday morning. I wouldnât be a Sinn Fein supporter at all at all, but Iâd still find that comment about needing to educate themselves extremely ironic. The Buff Egan is bulling over it.
Werenât you the lad that came on here seconds after after Christian Eriksen collapsed to say it was due to the vaccine or was that somebody else?
Whether it was you or not, youâre as bad. Youâre not a well fella in the head, that is for sure.
Is this West Brit chap still going with the shit wumming?
Oh they gave us James mcgrory and Paul mcstayâŚ