[Magdalen] Prayer request

[Ginga Wilder]

Praying for you, Renee, that you can have relief from your retina
problems.  Praying for The Man, for continued good recovery from
pneumonia.  May all the work you have to do be a blessing, rather than
multiple stressors.

(((((((Renee)))))))
Ginga

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Louise Laughton <llaug at twcny.rr.com> wrote:

> Have had two — count 'em two — shots into my left eyeball, the most recent
> last Thursday, 10/20. It isn’t a lovely experience, but it’s not nearly so
> bad as it sounds. They numb the eye. The shot itself is really quick, and
> the discomfort afterward is low-key, or has been for me. This isn’t
> something you’ll recommend to all your friends, but it truly isn’t so
> horrible as it sounds. Like yours, my diagnosis is ‘iffy,” but these
> injections are my doctor’s choice of treatment. For a while, it was “wait
> and watch,” but then things took a downward turn, and he decided to treat
> it. Whatever “it” might be. There will be more of the injections at
> widening intervals, the next in early December. The first two shots were a
> month apart.
>
> On Oct 26, 2016, at 3:21 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
> wrote:
>
> On 26/10/2016 16:59, flyingfish224--- via Magdalen wrote:
> > If it is not one thing, it is another...
> >
> > I see the retina specialist tomorrow for my right eye...too complicated
> to explain, since there is no firm diagnosis...but conversations about
> injections into my eyeball.  EEEK and GROSS!  I am terrified...(of vision
> loss, not the shots)
>
> I empathise with your shouts of anguish. The prospect would terrify me -
> it was bad enough having laser surgery to cauterise a burst blood-vessel in
> my eye. I would need to be out cold before anybody approached my eye with a
> sharp instrument or needle. You assuredly have my prayers.
>
> Roger
>
>