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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 5, 2021 8:29:37 GMT
Excellent. Your hero status has gone up a notch (as if it could go any higher ) The only time I've been to Germany (Hamburg) I was terribly impressed with the rail system. I talked to a colleague about a possible holiday in Berlin...Zofia is Polish and extremely sophisticated and stylish...she always looks to me as if she's just been ironed...anyway she looked at me...frowned a bit and said 'No, you wouldn't like Berlin. It's very highbrow'. Hmph.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 5, 2021 8:49:22 GMT
I am really surprised that things could be so complicated in efficient Germany. There is absolutely no paperwork for a vaccination here -- you just give them your health card with the microchip, and that's that, no questions asked.
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Post by onlyMark on May 5, 2021 10:52:36 GMT
Cheery, it was the sprinting bit I bet. As for Berlin being highbrow, our on the spot reporter may help with that definition. I never saw it as so the few times I've been. But then I may have brought it down a few notches.
K2, I've no idea what the general necessity for paperwork is when the government gives the vaccinations. I know that my mother-in-law who is in her eighties has not yet managed to get an appointment, but I think that is half down to her (being difficult with dates and locations) rather than the system. She should have had one if not two by now. I know I still wouldn't be considered for a jab yet as I'm not in the right category so far, but, due to Mrs M's work and location, I've slipped up a few places such that her HQ is able to give me one in Germany. I expect most of the paperwork is of their doing to cover themselves and not a normal situation, though I don't know for sure.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 5, 2021 16:35:52 GMT
Whew! I'm exhausted just from reading all that.
It's hard not to believe in fate after realizing that the frustrating delays caused you to be in the right place at the right time to potentially save someone.
For what it's worth to those of you who haven't had your shots yet, or who are awaiting the second dose ~ you don't really have to wait 15 or 20 minutes afterward. Even in Mexico, home of fuddy-duddy rule followers, they let me go when I announced that I didn't want to sit there.
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Post by tod2 on May 8, 2021 12:18:39 GMT
Some posts long ago mentioned Kerouac had a rat problem at times. I saw this advert this morning at the farmers Co-op. I know its really for motorcars but whats the harm in leaving a few squirts in a old yogurt tub here there and everywhere in the apartment. Unless it may have a slight oily odour. But if it keeps them away without a dead rat stink - heyho!
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Post by kerouac2 on May 8, 2021 13:05:41 GMT
I never had a rat problem. I could have fit at least a half dozen of the tiny cute mice into the palm of my hand.
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Post by tod2 on May 8, 2021 14:44:24 GMT
My apologies then. I only remember you mentioning that you only detected a rat or mice were caught when they started smelling bad. Also something about that sticky stuff they get glued to instead someone mentioned the rat snap their heads off trap. Can't remember where or when.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 8, 2021 15:06:22 GMT
Most of the mice are small enough not to smell when they die. But there are exceptions, unfortunately. Actually my mice have generally been too small, which means that they can eat the bait in the traps without always setting them off. I have adapted to that by putting some thread through the bait so that they will have to tug at it more than usual.
I should not be mentioning this because it has been at least a year since my last mouse, which is when I usually decide that I have conquered the problem only to discover that no, you naive fool.
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Post by tod2 on May 8, 2021 15:20:20 GMT
Oh OK but what did you make of that rat spray? Do you think it will work indoors? I ommitted to post the photo first time.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 8, 2021 15:32:51 GMT
I don't believe in rat sprays any more than I believe in those dog and cat sprays that are supposed to keep them from peeing where you don't want them to. I think that animals are as hard-headed as humans.
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Post by whatagain on May 18, 2021 16:55:39 GMT
My wife was right. Again. She said I would most probably get a cataract following my detached retina. She said probably within a year. She always underestimates me...😄 Took me 3 months. I really don't see much with my left eye. So next week, I'll have another examen. She will take all the measures for the operation. Then she has to decide if she does it herself or ask a colleague. I let that decision to her, I'll follow suit. Fuck...
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Post by kerouac2 on May 18, 2021 17:15:25 GMT
Sounds horrible, but cataract operations are very common now and seem to always go well. Both of my parents had cataract operations in Florida. They do so many of them there that there is a bus service from each town to pick people up and take them home since you are not supposed to drive after the operation (which of course at least half of those stubborn old people would do if they could). During the time my mother was staying at my place before the nursing home, she would watch for me coming out of the metro after work every day... until she suddenly didn't see me anymore. I took her for an examination as quickly as possible, and the doctor said she needed another cataract operation -- which was done very quickly and efficiently at an elegant private clinic completely free of charge. But since the mind was going so fast, was it even necessary?
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Post by whatagain on May 18, 2021 18:25:14 GMT
I think it was necessary. Older people need eyes. It prevents them from falling, allow them to read whilst they can, watch tv when they cannot read anymore.
Anyway. My wife has performed hundreds of cataract surgeries, maybe thousands. Probably thousands. I guess i can trust her.
But ut will be a first for me and i don't look forward to it...
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Post by kerouac2 on May 18, 2021 18:30:02 GMT
Lots of eye drops in store.
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Post by bjd on May 18, 2021 18:35:39 GMT
I am really surprised that things could be so complicated in efficient Germany. There is absolutely no paperwork for a vaccination here -- you just give them your health card with the microchip, and that's that, no questions asked. Just catching up with this thread for some reason. When I went for the first jab, I had to check some boxes on a form about health questions like "do you have a fever?", "have you had Covid?"... then a little talk with a doctor who repeated all those questions orally. Then went to another room for the shot and then had to wait 15 minutes to make sure I felt okay. They also do look at your health card and your ID card.
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Post by fumobici on May 18, 2021 18:47:38 GMT
The procedure to get vaccinated here was nearly identical. I guess why wouldn't it be?
I'm getting old enough to know numerous people who've had cataract procedures and to a one they've been delighted with the results.
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Post by mossie on May 18, 2021 18:59:52 GMT
Similar procedure for vaccination here.
I had cataracts removed from both eyes, and later laser treatments to remove some cloudiness , which have been very successful.
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Post by Kimby on May 18, 2021 22:53:11 GMT
I WANT to have cataract surgery so I can get my distance vision fixed. But unfortunately I don’t have cataracts....
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Post by bjd on May 19, 2021 7:01:27 GMT
I WANT to have cataract surgery so I can get my distance vision fixed. But unfortunately I don’t have cataracts.... You don't need cataract surgery for that -- just laser surgery, I believe.
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Post by tod2 on May 19, 2021 7:18:44 GMT
Kimby, Mr.Tod and I have both had lazer surgery for improving our eyesight. Mr. had a lens inserted and now at the age of 75 can read small print without glasses - he does not wear them at all. I on the otherhand improved my long sight but I still wear glasses to read and looking at computer screen etc. I had a small cataract removed at the same time and was told my other eye was developing a cataract and would need surgery eventually.
Whatagain - your wife will advise correctly, but aren't cataracts formed because the eye is trying to protect itself against the glare of sunlight? I was told I should wear sunglasses every time I step outside.
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Post by Kimby on May 19, 2021 11:36:00 GMT
Tod, my problem is presbyopia, old eyes that have lost the ability for the lens to focus. I used to have perfect vision, into my 50’s. Then I noticed it was getting harder to read, but I could still see distant signs and birds, etc.
Drug store reading glasses worked fine for reading for a decade or so, but I kept having to increase the magnification, and now I’m at +3.25, which is very difficult to find.
Meanwhile, things in the distance were beginning to get fuzzy. At my last drivers license renewal I just barely passed the vision test, and was told I was borderline for needing glasses for driving.
Quite by accident I discovered that my old 1.5 readers work just fine for driving! Apparently, my focal point is now so far behind my retina that NOTHING, not even the moon and stars, is in focus.
And I was under the impression that laser surgery was for myopia (nearsightedness), but could do nothing for farsightedness caused by presbyopia.
Perhaps our Any Porter with the eye doctor spouse could ask her opinion on this? Is Dr. Whatagain in?
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Post by tod2 on May 19, 2021 11:48:02 GMT
Lets hope Whatagain sees your request - He will definitely get the correct information. A lot of your steps to poorer eyesight match mine. My El-Cheepo readers are at 2,5. I don't need glasses for driving but only just passed the test last license update. I blamed it on a stuffy office, no aircon and sweaty eyes.
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Post by Kimby on May 19, 2021 12:12:01 GMT
Do eyes sweat, tod?
My vision problem is complicated by vitreal detachments that have left a residual blurriness in my central vision. Much like a thumbprint on my glasses, or a smidge of face cream gotten into my eye. No amount of rubbing (the eye or the glasses) clears it up though...
And did I mention my hearing is going to sh*t, too?
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Post by mickthecactus on May 19, 2021 12:25:17 GMT
Join the club...
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Post by Kimby on May 19, 2021 13:14:49 GMT
The Kimbys returned from Florida to Montana to find our lawn as brown as we’ve ever seen it. It hasn’t rained AT ALL in the 3+ weeks we were gone. We raked and fertilized just before we headed to Florida, but didn’t turn on the sprinkler system because it still freezes at night here. Normally it would rain a lot in April and May, and the lawn would be a verdant green and badly in need of mowing when we return from Florida.
As The Lawn is Mr. Kimby’s pride and joy, and the envy of our neighbors, this situation requires immediate rectification!
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Post by Kimby on May 19, 2021 14:14:24 GMT
Another petty trauma. Yesterday while flying home I noticed that my “daypack” carry-on was coated with a sticky substance of unknown origin. I assumed a bottle of hand sanitizer had leaked, but no. The culprit was a full but opened packet of individually-wrapped sticks of Orbit sugarless gum that - I can hardly believe this - apparently absorbed humidity whilst sitting in our un-air conditioned closet for 3 weeks, emitting oodles of gooey juice that soaked through my pack. Yuck!
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Post by whatagain on May 19, 2021 17:20:41 GMT
Hello Kimby and Tod.
Does cataract come from being somehow unprotected. I don't know but doubt it. Mine came in 2.5 months. I think it comes with age. Simply.
Adjusting eyevision with laser obviously doesn't require cataract. You can do it at any age, lits of young people do it to avoid wearing glasses. A lens is added inside the eye, and acts like glasses.
I will ask the boss for more details, but she is working tonight...
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Post by Kimby on May 19, 2021 19:44:44 GMT
I think what is commonly referred to as laser surgery in the US, is using lasers to make tiny cuts to reshape ones cornea(?) so that the lens focuses properly.
This kind of surgery is (or was) done only for myopia or nearsightedness. I’ve always heard that there isn’t a surgical fix for far-sightedness other than lens implantation as part of cataract surgery.
Maybe things have changed. Or maybe lens implantation for vision correction isn’t yet approved in the US.
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Post by questa on May 20, 2021 0:45:26 GMT
I've spent all my life in glasses. 60% vision Right and <10% Left without them but with them I pass all the tests.
However, in my dotage, my L retina is fraying at the edges and having trouble focusing as quickly as the R which leads to the occasional blur of double vision as Lefty catches up.
It is only a millisecond and the two specialists have signed off OK to drive but I feel sorry for my poor retinas...they have worked so hard and seen so much wonder. Now, when I have time to see at leisure, I may be deprived of their former abilities.
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Post by whatagain on May 21, 2021 21:46:52 GMT
I will get my eye surgery on 15 of june. My wife will do it. I will have complete anesthesia. Feeling quite confident. It is actually funny to be in the hands of my wife. She is a good wife and a good doctor. Nevertheless, i am trying to be nice and have voted a special budget for flowers. One cannot be too prudent 😆😆
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