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CarolM

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Off to The Emerald Isle tomorrow morning for an extended weekend kayaking adventure.

At the end of May, another big trip to another island, in the middle of pretty much no where, where people ride golf carts as cars and have their own island dialect. Own church, cemetary, island school too. Ogh, it’s also slowly sinking away...


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Did I read right and the Emerald Island is sinking?
 

CarolM

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Hello, CDR friends!

The eye surgery went great! It's just amazing that the dr could remove the old lens and replace it...and I have NO pain. My only struggle right now is cramming my glasses on over the patch and shield. Hard to get everything lined up to see with one eye.

They also have a new type of lens to put in that corrects astigmatism. It's good that only my right eye has it, because insurance doesn't pay for the new lens yet. So I had to pay for it [emoji45]. But the vision should be excellent once healed.

I'm sorry I made such a confusion with where my message was posted. For some reason my brain was addled and I posted in the wrong place, then couldn't move it.
@Yvonne G, thank you for putting it here...you did right!

Thank you everyone for the good wishes! I'll post tomorrow on how the eye sees when the patch and shield come off.

And in 3 weeks, the left eye gets done! [emoji2][emoji872]
So very glad to see that all went well. Yayy for advances in medicine.
 

CarolM

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Well!! All caught up now.
And it seems that summer is looming on your side whereas winter is looming on my side. At least I can enjoy summer advantages without the pain of the heat.
So glad it is Thursday today. We are supposed to be getting rain again today. My garden will be very happy.
Clark is doing much better, so I have stopped soaking him in the morning as well now. As I hate disturbing him when he is sleeping, which is normally the case when I leave in the morning. My acupuncturist has gone a retreat to meditate in silence for 10 days. Now that would never work for me, I cannot stay silent or have no noise for that long. I would go crazy.:D
So i tried making an appointment with my Osteopath who I have not seen since January. And he now only comes my way on Wednesdays. Yesterday and next Wednesday were and are public holidays. Sigh - Oh well I will have a break and see how well things go while they are all gone.
 

Maro2Bear

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Did I read right and the Emerald Island is sinking?

Not quite....second para is a new topic/trip at the end of May....to a vanishing island in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay....by highway, then ferry to this vanishing island.

But today, final packing up the truck for Emerald Island, North Carolina. I’ll let the morning traffic jams pass and leave in about 2.5 hours or so.

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JoesMum

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Hello, CDR friends!

The eye surgery went great! It's just amazing that the dr could remove the old lens and replace it...and I have NO pain. My only struggle right now is cramming my glasses on over the patch and shield. Hard to get everything lined up to see with one eye.

They also have a new type of lens to put in that corrects astigmatism. It's good that only my right eye has it, because insurance doesn't pay for the new lens yet. So I had to pay for it [emoji45]. But the vision should be excellent once healed.

I'm sorry I made such a confusion with where my message was posted. For some reason my brain was addled and I posted in the wrong place, then couldn't move it.
@Yvonne G, thank you for putting it here...you did right!

Thank you everyone for the good wishes! I'll post tomorrow on how the eye sees when the patch and shield come off.

And in 3 weeks, the left eye gets done! [emoji2][emoji872]

Fantastic news. I am glad it has gone so well for you :)
 

Momof4

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Hello, CDR friends!

The eye surgery went great! It's just amazing that the dr could remove the old lens and replace it...and I have NO pain. My only struggle right now is cramming my glasses on over the patch and shield. Hard to get everything lined up to see with one eye.

They also have a new type of lens to put in that corrects astigmatism. It's good that only my right eye has it, because insurance doesn't pay for the new lens yet. So I had to pay for it [emoji45]. But the vision should be excellent once healed.

I'm sorry I made such a confusion with where my message was posted. For some reason my brain was addled and I posted in the wrong place, then couldn't move it.
@Yvonne G, thank you for putting it here...you did right!

Thank you everyone for the good wishes! I'll post tomorrow on how the eye sees when the patch and shield come off.

And in 3 weeks, the left eye gets done! [emoji2][emoji872]

Sounds like it was successful!!
That’s great news about the astigmatism lens!
 

JoesMum

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I just had a lovely email from someone who I started helping through TFO last year.

She lives about 20 miles from me and had adopted 2 mature male Greeks that had been sharing an elderly neighbour’s garden peaceably for decades.

The move to her garden started open warfare and she had to separate them.

Out of hibernation this spring they went back in the garden and both were attacking each other, or rather ramming the solid fence dividing their homes in the exact spot the other was [emoji849]

The story has a happy ending. Her son has agreed to take on one of them, so they now have a garden each 100 miles away from each other. That should be far enough [emoji1]

It is nice to hear when things work out [emoji4]
 

Cathie G

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Good afternooning all.

I have been a little busy, but have managed to catch up.

Despite my wildlife friendly credentials, I need to go and annihilate wasp that’s got in the house.

* Heads off with rolled up newspaper *
I added a caption to my version of catching unwanted bugs. It works just don't lift the cover until you're outside. I added the caption to get my brothers goat...0502191231a.jpg
 

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