The totally off-topic thread

[AA KAZ]

Australians don’t care about the horrors we are perpetuating on Manus Island then?

That's because any so called "horrors" on Manus Island are perceived by the majority of Australians to be self inflicted. (The main "horror" being in the realization that they won't be settled in Australia even though there was good money paid for it to happen.)

 

[Denali]

Millennials have nothing on the whiney entitled 40+ that missed out on a Aldi sale.

 

[juddles]

It is easy to be insular living in paradise.......
Juddles does us all a service by reminding us of a world most Australians will never see.......

Hey tgh, and everyone,

I just want to clear something up. I share my experiences in a large part just to download to a group of people who I care about. I need to download sometimes….

It is not a sob story. Please let no one think that. I write for ME

TGH, I agree that it is good sometimes to be readjusted, to get a wake up call. But I have lived enough to understand that we cannot all be constantly worried about the lot of everyone.

I could not fundamentally change the life of that girl. Without also seeing I neglected the other 10,000 around her in the same situation.

Charity starts at home, or something similar. We cannot each save every child. But we can certainly take small steps to not bulldoze the weak. Small positive steps. And we must understand the need for compassion.

I love and rejoice in your compassion. Thank you! :’)

 

[juddles]

Getting back to less painful things, what is people's opinions on eye laser surgery?

I suffer from poor distance eyesight - "astygmatism" or something? Have the opportunity to get that fixed by laser surgery, but have some weird moral reluctance to have my aging interfered with
Any opinions?

 

[TheRealTMA]

Getting back to less painful things, what is people's opinions on eye laser surgery?

I suffer from poor distance eyesight - "astygmatism" or something? Have the opportunity to get that fixed by laser surgery, but have some weird moral reluctance to have my aging interfered with
Any opinions?

Have friends who have had successful results. Current technology is now very good and well established (much changed since the days the Russians invented the concepts using knives!). Maybe depends on how close you are to cateract surgery and lens replacements? That I can highly recommend.

Just consider it the start of the bionic juddles.

 

[juddles]

....Just consider it the start of the bionic juddles.

That is a description I am loving!

Am in a country with great skills in the medical field - a whole international industry. I actually understand the Colombians pioneered much of eye laser stuff.

But again, the new bionic me? That gives me goosebumps. Maybe get teeth done too. Lose a few wrinkles on the face? I don't need an "cough implant" - age does that for me. But maybe correct the nose I had smashed in the police? There may be no stopping me..... Have to repair my lifestyle damage

Bionic Juddles. You have given me a theme for my upcoming New Year's resolutions.

 

[GarrettM]

Enjoyed Smith's ton earlier. England will be on top though if they can get another wicket soon.

 

[cgichard]

Poor distance eyesight and astigmatism are different problems but may co-exist. It used to be the case that catarct surgery with an intra-ocular lens implant could cure only the former, but now the lens can be configured to correct some degree of astigmatism at the same time. I agree with The RealTMA in recommending it strongly over laser surgery, but you do need a surgeon with extensive experience in the procedure. It is both quick and painless. Here's the website of the one I used who was excellent.

 

[juddles]

Poor distance eyesight and astigmatism are different problems but may co-exist. It used to be the case that catarct surgery with an intra-ocular lens implant could cure only the former, but now the lens can be configured to correct some degree of astigmatism at the same time. I agree with The RealTMA in recommending it strongly over laser surgery, but you do need a surgeon with extensive experience in the procedure. It is both quick and painless. Here's the website of the one I used who was excellent.

Thanks cgichard, it is probably my layperson's misnomers. I suffer astigamatism, which I call poor distance vision. That is what I am considering correcting. Apparently in general my eyeballs are healthy - and I have not had a change (deterioration) in the three years since I last saw him. (a pun in there?)

The doctor I see is a specialist in laser surgery - he says that if I correct this it will be good, but will slightly exacerbate my also failing short term sight - reading books and so forth. But I have no dramas using reading glasses. Does this make sense?

 

[RooFlyer]

@Tassieoptom may chip in (or not)

I have 'poor distance vision' ('short sighted') which I have corrected by soft contact lenses (stay in for a month to 5 weeks at a time). I also have an astigmatism in one eye, which is corrected by having the contact lens in that eye have a little 'weight' at one edge which rotates the lens to correct for the astigmatism. Different things (in my case), different solutions.

 

[drron]

Why don’t we focus on things in our neighbourhood and control such as why Australians don’t care about the horrors we are perpetuating on Manus Island then?

Just maybe real compassion isn't letting these 600 men into Australia.By letting them here 600 less refugees from Refugee camps suich as those that I have described from Bhutan will not get here.
The refugees from Bhutan started arriving in 2014-after the boats were stopped.Many had been in camps for up to 25 years.The 2 I met in Townsville were twins that had been born in a camp in Nepal.There are over a 1000 in Launceston,another 1000+ in Hobart.None would be here if we let the boats start again.

 

[JessicaTam]

Aunty Jack was one of my favourite shows growing up.

Vale: Rory O’Donoghue

 

[OZDUCK]

Aunty Jack was one of my favourite shows growing up.

Vale: Rory O’Donoghue

Thanks for posting this - I also loved it in my, much, younger days.

 

[rogerkambah]

Just had a ripper mini storm come through. Only lasted about 5 mins but hail mostly 10-12 mm, some around 15mm, followed by dirty brown rain. Hydrangeas and tomatoes part shredded. Grrrrrrr. BOM shows it to have moved off south of Q'beyan.

 

[love_the_life]

Just had a ripper mini storm come through. Only lasted about 5 mins but hail mostly 10-12 mm, some around 15mm, followed by dirty brown rain. Hydrangeas and tomatoes part shredded. Grrrrrrr. BOM shows it to have moved off south of Q'beyan.

We got nothing in Barton - just three or so drips of rain and a bit of thunder rumble. You must have been pretty unlucky.

 

[JohnK]

Getting back to less painful things, what is people's opinions on eye laser surgery?

A friend had it done a few years back and now doesn't need to wear glasses for golf. Both my parents have had eye surgery in the past 12-24 months but that was for cataracts.

I need to wear glasses for both reading/computer use and long distance. For the time being the deterioration has has been ok so hoping I can avoid surgery.

 

[rogerkambah]

The first Celica models were fabulous. My brothers first car. Yellow.

The last model are pretty good too. My wife loves hers. It has just ticked over 100k and looks like new.

She has just decided however that she prefers our 40k WRX having just driven it back from Adelaide.

 

[love_the_life]

Aunty Jack was one of my favourite shows growing up.

Vale: Rory O’Donoghue

Very sad and not so old....
Used to love the Auntie Jack Show.

 

[Denali]

Getting back to less painful things, what is people's opinions on eye laser surgery?

I suffer from poor distance eyesight - "astygmatism" or something? Have the opportunity to get that fixed by laser surgery, but have some weird moral reluctance to have my aging interfered with
Any opinions?

My husband had very difficult prescriptions, 6+ diopter or something like that. Three or four different glasses just to get through the day. He had ocular (sp?) surgery back in 2012 and changed his life almost overnight. No more glasses, near perfect vision.

Dr Paul Humes or Hughes at Vision Eye Institute.

 

[cgichard]

juddles, poor distance vision or "short sight" is called myopia.

Astigmatism is when you see things slightly skew-wiff; Van Gogh's picture of the rush-seated chair is a good example. It frequently shifts over time. That is what an optometrist is testing when they swivel a lens around inside the heavy frame they plonk on your nose, and ask is this better or that. Astignatism makes it difficult to read long sequences of numbers or letters correctly. They "squidge" together. At longer range it means you see objects etc. slightly 'out of true' alignment, e.g VG's chair.

Personally I would be wary of a specialist who said that correcting astigmatism by laser treatment might exacerbate close-range vision, i.e. reading books etc.The type of lenses that are in "reading spectacles" to improve close-range vision that has deteriorated with age (presbyopia) can easily be preplaced by prescription lenses that will correct astigmatism as well. If you are happy with wearing reading glasses, then I would say you just need new lenses, not laser surgery. But please note, I am not a qualified specialist, and I defer to any here who are.

N.B. Laser eye surgery is expensive, and lucrative to the practitioner. Tri-focal lenses can correct myopia, presbyopia and astigmatism within a single lens but do nothing for cataracts. For those, surgery to implant an intra-ocular lens is preferable to laser surgery.

Mods: this conversation should be in the Medical Issues thread, but juddles may not look there.