[Magdalen] Prayer request

[Marion Thompson]

Not fun.  Hope it all works!

Marion, a pilgrim

On 10/26/2016 4:59 PM, flyingfish224--- via Magdalen wrote:
> Sic is saying maybe myopic degeneration.   Ugh in any case.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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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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