[Magdalen] Prayer request

[flyingfish224 at aol.com]

Sic is saying maybe myopic degeneration.   Ugh in any case.

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> On Oct 26, 2016, at 4:20 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This rather sounds like wet macular degeneration and the injections of Visudyne that may be the treatment.
> 
> Marion
> 
> 
>> On 10/26/2016 4:11 PM, Ginga Wilder wrote:
>> 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
>>> 
>>> 
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