by Tdarcos » Mon Sep 12, 2016 10:22 am
Did anyone think maybe to call and ask me? Jiz, Pinback and Jonsey all received copies of my personal information including both of my cell phone numbers, both my regular and my special emergency phone.
And I know Jiz had it even before that because he called me back when I first went into the hospital and was incommunicado for over a week.
Also, my Area Code 240 number (which you all also have), my office number that appears on the whois information for my websites, is from Magic Jack and is essentially the equivalent of a landline number. And one of the features it includes is call forwarding. On MagicJack's website you log in to your account and one of the features allow you to forward the number anywhere in the U.S., so I have that number forwarded to my cell phone as well. Anyone calling has no idea where the number terminates.
Here is the situation. On Sat. July 30, everything was normal and I went to bed. I woke up Sunday morning and my vision was a horrible blur. I could not see anything beyond shapes and colors. I could not read, I could not write, I could not use a computer, I could not use my smart phone because some imbecile designed the dial function using pastel colors, light blie numbers on a white background. I could not use my computer because I could not focus on it. I could not even read the wall clock.
My eye had somehow had a blood vessel leak into it. I went to the eye center on Tue Aug 1. My vision was so bad I could not even read the eye chart at the higthest level, the "E" at 20/400. Realize that normal vision is 20/20 but the numbers are not linear; 20/400 is not 20 times worse than normal, it is much worse. (I think legally blind starts at 20/50 or 20/100).
Well, they wabted to see if anything changed, so they had be come back a week later, and we find my vision has improved to 20/200. Now, under normal circumstances - a person with vision in both eyes - they'd recommend waiting (which I agreed) rather than having invasive surgery (this incident is like pouring motor oil on a computer monitor, to be able to see on it you need to clean the oil off the screen). And to fix this would require they cut into my eye, mere Lasix is not going to work in this case.
Since this would require an actual operation, because I had congestive heart failure a couple years ago - which, I'm sure everyone here remembers - they have to clear me for anestesia, for the reason I asked my personal doctor, Dr. Mitchell, "They want to make sure that the anestesia doesn't cause me to drop dead." His response was "That's exactly right."
So come along September 8, my cardiologist, Dr. Tee, looked at the echograms they did of my heart last week, and said that the medications he prescribed for my heart and high blood pressure are working okay, so I'm fine for whatever they want to use, and i don't have to come back to see him for six months, everything is that good.
So now, the ball is in the court at Washington Hospital Center's Eye Center to get them to receive the paperwork from Dr. Tee and Dr. Mitchell. Which they have a problem, theytapparently are having trouble getting (and sometimes receiving) faxes. apparently they have only one competent person to handle their paperwork.
Thia tells me that the Eye Center has serious back office problems, even Dr. Mitchell sends prescriptions across town to the pharmacy near where I live using e-mail with his smart phone.
In the interim six weeks since the accident my vision has improved. When I sent the original emergency message here in order to read the computer I had to find and activate Magnifier and set it to at least 10x all the way to the maximum, 16x magnification.
I'm able to do some stuff on the computer without magnifcation, but I have to use a magnifier to read snail-mail, and some things I still can't read. If things keep up I may end up getting my vision back before they even need to do the operation!
Did anyone think maybe to call and ask me? Jiz, Pinback and Jonsey all received copies of my personal information including both of my cell phone numbers, both my regular and my special emergency phone.
And I know Jiz had it even before that because he called me back when I first went into the hospital and was incommunicado for over a week.
Also, my Area Code 240 number (which you all also have), my office number that appears on the whois information for my websites, is from Magic Jack and is essentially the equivalent of a landline number. And one of the features it includes is call forwarding. On MagicJack's website you log in to your account and one of the features allow you to forward the number anywhere in the U.S., so I have that number forwarded to my cell phone as well. Anyone calling has no idea where the number terminates.
Here is the situation. On Sat. July 30, everything was normal and I went to bed. I woke up Sunday morning and my vision was a horrible blur. I could not see anything beyond shapes and colors. I could not read, I could not write, I could not use a computer, I could not use my smart phone because some imbecile designed the dial function using pastel colors, light blie numbers on a white background. I could not use my computer because I could not focus on it. I could not even read the wall clock.
My eye had somehow had a blood vessel leak into it. I went to the eye center on Tue Aug 1. My vision was so bad I could not even read the eye chart at the higthest level, the "E" at 20/400. Realize that normal vision is 20/20 but the numbers are not linear; 20/400 is not 20 times worse than normal, it is much worse. (I think legally blind starts at 20/50 or 20/100).
Well, they wabted to see if anything changed, so they had be come back a week later, and we find my vision has improved to 20/200. Now, under normal circumstances - a person with vision in both eyes - they'd recommend waiting (which I agreed) rather than having invasive surgery (this incident is like pouring motor oil on a computer monitor, to be able to see on it you need to clean the oil off the screen). And to fix this would require they cut into my eye, mere Lasix is not going to work in this case.
Since this would require an actual operation, because I had congestive heart failure a couple years ago - which, I'm sure everyone here remembers - they have to clear me for anestesia, for the reason I asked my personal doctor, Dr. Mitchell, "They want to make sure that the anestesia doesn't cause me to drop dead." His response was "That's exactly right."
So come along September 8, my cardiologist, Dr. Tee, looked at the echograms they did of my heart last week, and said that the medications he prescribed for my heart and high blood pressure are working okay, so I'm fine for whatever they want to use, and i don't have to come back to see him for six months, everything is that good.
So now, the ball is in the court at Washington Hospital Center's Eye Center to get them to receive the paperwork from Dr. Tee and Dr. Mitchell. Which they have a problem, theytapparently are having trouble getting (and sometimes receiving) faxes. apparently they have only one competent person to handle their paperwork.
Thia tells me that the Eye Center has serious back office problems, even Dr. Mitchell sends prescriptions across town to the pharmacy near where I live using e-mail with his smart phone.
In the interim six weeks since the accident my vision has improved. When I sent the original emergency message here in order to read the computer I had to find and activate Magnifier and set it to at least 10x all the way to the maximum, 16x magnification.
I'm able to do some stuff on the computer without magnifcation, but I have to use a magnifier to read snail-mail, and some things I still can't read. If things keep up I may end up getting my vision back before they even need to do the operation!