Every time we go through a tough challenge we grow and since turning 60, almost 8 years ago I have been growing a lot.
While I was going through my rotator cuff ordeal - I have a friend who was diagnosed with breast cancer. They found a very small lump that was removed and now she is having radiation. No chemo was needed. Her sister had the very same surgery and cancer back in 2020.
Still, I'd rather be laid up in a sling than to have any form of cancer. She's doing fine; it was caught early and they have given her a positive prognosis. But still, she has cancer in her family - all types. Scary and makes you think. She will be 69 this year.
I don't have cancer or diabetes in my family. Just heart disease in the men and high blood pressure but I have low blood pressure for now. My family has bad backs - and orthopedic issues. My mom had fibromyalgia and glaucoma.
I just need to get through all these physical therapies and get this shoulder/arm healed.
NEW CHALLENGE
I wasn't even going to mention this, but thought I pretty much tell it all so why not? Friday afternoon, my right eye seemed blurred. I kept putting drops in it and by Saturday I realized I now have "floaters." in my eye. This disappoints me greatly since I had cataracts removed so I can see, and dang it, these spider-like floaters are right in my line of good vision.
I did some checking and low and behold, this is normal; after cataract surgery. I did not know this. Since my eyes have been thoroughly checked out and I do not have any underlying disease, there is nothing they can do about it and I read where I might have had them all along only now I can see them. If they get really bad they do have a procedure to remove them, but even that is not foolproof. I read where people just get used to them. Right now, all I can see is this little black floater in my right eye. Looks like a big eyelash - I keep trying to bat away.
I mentioned to the husband and low and behold he tells me he's had them for years and doesn't even think about them. Basically, I will get used to them, where I won't even see them.
I guess I have to get busy with something that will take my mind of obsessing about it.
Wednesday I have jury duty. I forgot all about rescheduling it. So on Wednesday, I have to go down along with my printout of the next 2 months of physical therapy appointments.
I tried phoning them but their message box was full. I went online and I was too late to reschedule so the link didn't work for me.
So starting Tuesday, since tomorrow is a Holiday:
1. Take care of Jury Duty
2. Make an eye appointment at the clinic just to get it checked out
Cancer is scary, I had cervical cancer that was caught very early (however if I had managed to get my surgery earlier, the pre cancerous cells would never have mutated into cancer....Covid hit). Yet every once in awhile I think that perhaps things aren't as good as I think....
ReplyDeleteFloaters, had them for years and they don't even bother me any longer. But a good idea to get them checked.
God bless.
Yeah I will have to just get used to them. In the big scope of things, eye floaters are minuscule.
DeleteI don't remember floaters after my cataract surgery, but then I don't remember much from yesterday much less years ago. I do occasionally get what I call the squigalies, I just eat some chocolate or take anything sweet and they go away very quickly...probably not the same thing, but an excuse to eat chocolate.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm chocolate? I must try that
DeleteI have, or had, a floater after cataract surgery too. I had forgotten that. It either went away or I ignore it. It's no big deal (for me). At least I can see!
ReplyDeleteThat fibromyalgia is bad stuff and no one seems to know what causes it. My local BFF has that. She really suffers too. I think, though, that she now takes multiple vitamins and that seems to be helping. Poor dear. I wish I could make it go away.
It's COLD and windy in SE Georgia today. We're staying inside and cleaning house. Wanna help? *lol*
Get Well Soon!
Blessings. xx
My mom had it back when she was in her late 30's so that must have been somewhere in the 1960's and of course no doctor back then knew anything. They thought she was imaging it. She ended up getting addicted to pain killers - lived on them till she ran out and then she killed herself.
DeleteYes that is scary... My family is cursed I think. We have heart disease AND cancer. My father died at 36 from a heart attack and my mom passed away at 56 from pancreatic cancer. I have had skin cancer removed and so has my nephew... I've been sick since I"m 21 and I haven't really told anyone but, there is some suspicion by my orthopedist that I may have metastatic cancer that has gone to my bones. I haven't checked it out yet because well, I'm scared.. So I take each day as it comes..
ReplyDeleteOh Robyn, you really need to get it checked out.
DeleteCancer is scary shit, thankfully never had it but my dad had lung cancer
ReplyDeleteYes it is, one word that no one ever wants to hear
DeleteI have a few large floaters in my right eye and the doctor pretty much said there really isn't anything they can do about it. It only really bothers me when I look into a bright light. We have cancer on one side of the family and heart disease on the other side. It is what it is, I guess.
ReplyDeleteNo one ever told me I could get floaters after cateract surgery. Almost defeats the whole purpose of correcting my vision.
DeleteDebby, I have floaters in my eyes too. It's really bothersome. I had my eyes thoroughly checked out also, and I think it has to do with allergies or that certain time of year. I get them worse at times more than others. I'm sorry you have them also. And I'm so sorry about your friend and her illness, that's terrible. I hope she gets better. Hope the rest of the January days are good ones.
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Since I have mentioned about having floaters, more and more people are telling me they have them too. In a way that's comforting to me, in the sense that I am not alone and that I will learn to get used to it. I still think it's a bummer - to go through the cateract surgery to get rid of the cloudy lens and now I get these little floaters. Oh well, there is nothing that can be done.
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