Trying to like "House of the Dragon"

BillWoodruff

I am trying ... just waded through episode #4. Maybe it's like realizing your best friend's kid ... who you really want to like ... is just a messy little, dull, brat ? The young Rhaenyra, played woodenly by 22 year-old Milly Alcock, appears to have her face either maxed out on botox, or plumped with prostheses ? Alternative hypothesis: she has Down's Syndrome (I worked with disabled populations, including Down's Syndrome adults for several years). While I find the character of Daemon interesting, for me, none of the other characters measure up to GOT original. Well, I tried. Maybe with new eyes (surgery next week), it will look better ?

«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch

jmaida

Cataract implants? I went from legally blind to 20/20 in a week.

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BillWoodruff

Thanks, that's inspirational. Yes, cataract surgery on both eyes, cheers, Bill

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jmaida

They did the left eye first, then the right eye, a week later. I did not realize I was not seeing the world in 3D until it was done.

"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger

OriginalGriff

BillWoodruff wrote:

Maybe with new eyes (surgery next week), it will look better ?

Oh great - you've needed them for years now. :thumbsup: Herself had her cataract op three weeks ago, and we had to take one of the lenses out of her "walk about" glasses so she could see clearly two weeks ago as the correction it applied meant she could see with her left eye with the glasses on, but not her right, or with her right eye with them off, but not her left. The op is pretty trivial in surgical terms - about 15 minutes total:

Drops to open the iris fully
Ultrasound to break up the old lens (emulsification)
A tiny hole in the eye big enough to get a syringe needle through
Suck out the old lens
Insert the new lens through the tube and open it up
Remove needle.

She had a headache for a few hours, a red eye for a few days and that was that. Sleeping with a cup taped over her eye for a week (so that she didn't rub the eye on the pillow), eyedrops for four weeks, then back to the opticians for new glasses prescription 6 weeks after the op. She got improvement from day two, and her sight just got better as the inflammation of her eye faded away over a week. Just don't try to drive home afterwards ... The money is really well spent - don't know what it costs in Thailand, it was a total of £2700 / US$3100 in the UK (or a four year wait for a free op on the NHS thanks to the Covid induced delays!) but I don't regret it at all. It makes a real difference pretty much immediately.

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

OriginalGriff wrote:

£2700 / US$3100 in the UK

And I was thinking that health care here is bad... For my mom it was 0 NIS and 2 month of waiting (+2 weeks between eyes)... Two years after she still has 20/20 vision...

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BillWoodruff

Thanks, Griff, because of possible macular degeneration in the right eye, the surgeon tells me that she can't predict outcome until she removes the cataract; prognosis for the left eye is good. For other complex health reasons, i'll have both eyes done at the same time under general anesthesia. Happy to tell you my surgeon is the top eye specialist in northern Thailand. Probably a better class of surgeon than I i would get on MediCare in the US. Expensive ... as you may know, the US MediCare system will cover no medical costs for a citizen living outside the US. cheers, bill

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OriginalGriff

Normally, it would be free and fairly quick to arrange, but Covid put a stop to all non-life-threatening operations for two years, and a backlog built up. The wait to see the NHS specialist is 18 months to 2 years, then about the same again before the actual op. Since she's also got a very small cataract growing in her left eye, she would probably have been completely blind long before that so we elected to go private, and it was done within two weeks. The other one can wait as it isn't interfering with her sight yet.

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Rage

I know I have been hanging on this site for too long a time when there start to be threads about cataract op in the Lounge. :-D

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OriginalGriff

I know the feeling ... Herself is currently curled up on the sofa under a blanket suffering from her Covid Booster yesterday. She must be feeling pretty ill, she's awake and not screaming abuse at the TV ...

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BillWoodruff

May such threads always seem irrelevant to you, Brother Rage ! :omg:

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DRHuff

You had cataract implants? Weird. My wife had her cataracts removed. 🤪

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jmaida

Cataracts were replaced with lenses inside eye. They are shaped to accommodate eye just as external lenses are shaped. In my case, no special shaping was required.

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jmaida

ditto

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OriginalGriff

Ever thought how hard it might be to code with cataracts? I don't think I'd be able to, at all. That's scary ...

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jmaida

that my experience

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