On Wednesday I was scheduled to get the final verdict from my ophthalmologist after four weeks of no water in the eye, sleeping with an eye shield and a multitude of eyedrops and my eye certainly still wasn't ready to manage without spectacles.
The Lions Eye Institute has a myriad of fancy equipment to peer into and measure eyes and the verdict was that the fact that I still didn't have perfect vision was that I had quite severe astigmatism which could not be corrected by an interocular lens. The ophthalmologist's advice was to go back to my optometrist and get myself some spectacles to correct the astigmatism.
So on Thursday I had my eyes checked again and apart from the astigmatism I now have almost perfect vision in the right eye and the left eye needed new lenses as well so I am now waiting for my new glasses.
Meanwhile I am trying to read the Mueller Report which, if anyone has taken a look at it, has pages of tiny print which I can't focus on and lots and lots of black to cover the redactions. I have therefore downloaded it onto my Kobo at great expense (I think that I paid 10 cents) which is much easier to read but I suspect that it misses out a lot and I periodically refer to the print book for confirmation. When I can read properly again I will tackle the original again.
I have also been trying to knit with a horrible yarn which splits and I have to keep on dropping stitches down and picking up the strands which I missed. I am not happy with the result of the wrist warmer which I eventually finished so I will use the rest of the yarn for beanies but will knit the second wrist warmer when I can see properly again. It would be a shame to waste all the effort I put into the first one by not finishing the pair.
For the limerick I am going to repeat one which I used some time ago because it is the first of a series about the Sioux. That word sound probably has more rhymes than any other word in the English language so it is easy to make up poems using that sound. My apologies to any Native Americans I might offend but the limericks are published and out there.
The Limerick:-
A wandering tribe, called the Siouxs
Wear Moccasins, having no Shiouxs.
They are made of buckskin,
With the fleshy side in,
Embroidered with beads of bright Hyioux.
Saturday, July 20, 2019
Sunday, July 14, 2019
A Birthday
My birthday started with a visit from two second cousins for an exchange of family information. One of them I had met before and her brother wanted to meet me so he came along as well and culminated with D2 taking me out to dinner at one of Cottesloe's best restaurants.
Friday D1 arrived from Sydney , very late, because the plane which she had booked on was cancelled due to high winds and she arrived at about midnight - eight hours after she was supposed to arrive. Saturday night was a family dinner at one of Shenton Park's best restaurant with all seven of us. My dessert came with one small candle and the waitstaff all lined up and sang "Happy Birthday" and the whole clientele gave three cheers. A lot of fun and quite unexpected.
D1 has now flown back to Sydney on an also delayed flight and also due to high winds. And I think that we had a small earth tremor this morning. My chair was shaking so I checked in a jug of water and it was not just me trembling. No doubt it will be reported in the news tonight if it was not caused by the golden arches which the Council seems to be installing in The Lane. I am not sure what that is all about but it would be nice if they were roofed as we get just as wet, if not wetter, walking through the umbrellas which are there now and which drip at the edges.
I am still struggling with my eyes. The right eye is better but by no means best and it is hard to focus. I will be seeing the ophthalmologist in three days so he can judge the progress, whether or not there will be more improvement over time, if he wants to iron out the retina and when he intends to remove the cataract in the left eye.
and the Limerick:-
There was a young priest named Delaney
Who said to the girls, "Nota bene,
'Twould temp the archbishop
The way that you swish up
Your skirts when the weather is rainy."
* * *
Addendum:
Friday D1 arrived from Sydney , very late, because the plane which she had booked on was cancelled due to high winds and she arrived at about midnight - eight hours after she was supposed to arrive. Saturday night was a family dinner at one of Shenton Park's best restaurant with all seven of us. My dessert came with one small candle and the waitstaff all lined up and sang "Happy Birthday" and the whole clientele gave three cheers. A lot of fun and quite unexpected.
D1 has now flown back to Sydney on an also delayed flight and also due to high winds. And I think that we had a small earth tremor this morning. My chair was shaking so I checked in a jug of water and it was not just me trembling. No doubt it will be reported in the news tonight if it was not caused by the golden arches which the Council seems to be installing in The Lane. I am not sure what that is all about but it would be nice if they were roofed as we get just as wet, if not wetter, walking through the umbrellas which are there now and which drip at the edges.
I am still struggling with my eyes. The right eye is better but by no means best and it is hard to focus. I will be seeing the ophthalmologist in three days so he can judge the progress, whether or not there will be more improvement over time, if he wants to iron out the retina and when he intends to remove the cataract in the left eye.
and the Limerick:-
There was a young priest named Delaney
Who said to the girls, "Nota bene,
'Twould temp the archbishop
The way that you swish up
Your skirts when the weather is rainy."
* * *
Addendum:
A magnitude-6.6 earthquake in the Indian Ocean has been felt across large parts of Western Australia.
The quake struck about 200 kilometres off the coast, between Broome and Port Hedland at 1:39pm on Sunday.
Saturday, July 6, 2019
Still struggling with my eyes
Just over two weeks after having my cataract removed I am struggling. I never know when I wake up in the morning which eye will be the best to see out of. The right eye which was the one I had the cataract removed from is immeasurably better than it was but not perfect - except sometimes.
The left eye is good with corrective lenses but hopeless without my glasses and I juggle lenses and eyepatches depending on what and when I need to see something. I will be seeing the surgeon again in about eleven days so there is still time for improvement or maybe he will have to go in again and do something about the retina. The left eye should be a lot less complicated.
I am back to researching my family tree and have found that, except for my grandmother's siblings the Sexton line is dead but my grandmother had eight siblings so that should keep me busy for a while and the family of my grandfather's real father and his family are almost uncharted waters.
I have spent a lot of time listening to MSNBC and knitting - something which I do not need good focus to do but I have run out of yarn and the weather is not an encouragement to brave the rain to go and buy more.
And the weather has really been awful with freezing gale-force winds and a great deal of rain. It is mid-winter and what we should be expecting but the last few winters have been milder than this.
The cats are well but not rapt in their diet so they sleep most of the time and then nag me to feed them, which I won't. They have their times and I am trying to stick to them.
I am having problems with this computer and think that it is probably caused by the virus scanner which the people who cleaned out my computer installed. The problem is mainly with Facebook so that I have to use my I-Pad for some things. I agreed to leave the program installed for a year but am about to remove it and either go back to doing what I was doing before or install a different virus scanner.
The Limerick:-
Written by Arnold Bennett (1867 -1942)
There was a young man of Montrose
Who had pockets in none of his clothes.
When asked by his lass
Where he carried his brass,
He said, "Darling, I pay through the nose."
Sorry - I am repeating myself. I'll try not to do it again
The left eye is good with corrective lenses but hopeless without my glasses and I juggle lenses and eyepatches depending on what and when I need to see something. I will be seeing the surgeon again in about eleven days so there is still time for improvement or maybe he will have to go in again and do something about the retina. The left eye should be a lot less complicated.
I am back to researching my family tree and have found that, except for my grandmother's siblings the Sexton line is dead but my grandmother had eight siblings so that should keep me busy for a while and the family of my grandfather's real father and his family are almost uncharted waters.
I have spent a lot of time listening to MSNBC and knitting - something which I do not need good focus to do but I have run out of yarn and the weather is not an encouragement to brave the rain to go and buy more.
And the weather has really been awful with freezing gale-force winds and a great deal of rain. It is mid-winter and what we should be expecting but the last few winters have been milder than this.
The cats are well but not rapt in their diet so they sleep most of the time and then nag me to feed them, which I won't. They have their times and I am trying to stick to them.
I am having problems with this computer and think that it is probably caused by the virus scanner which the people who cleaned out my computer installed. The problem is mainly with Facebook so that I have to use my I-Pad for some things. I agreed to leave the program installed for a year but am about to remove it and either go back to doing what I was doing before or install a different virus scanner.
The Limerick:-
Written by Arnold Bennett (1867 -1942)
There was a young man of Montrose
Who had pockets in none of his clothes.
When asked by his lass
Where he carried his brass,
He said, "Darling, I pay through the nose."
Sorry - I am repeating myself. I'll try not to do it again
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