tipped over feb 26

[joy]

i am making a fuss about this but truly it is so I can look back and see just when it happened so I can tell doctor at next visit. I had been putting up some Christmas items and had seen some items that were in hall closet that have missed being used every year because they were not packed with Christmas stuff. So it was a wallpaper item and I just perched on edge of a recliner and was reading when I woke up in a terrible mess. My head had hit the edge of a plastic box and then the floor. unfortunately my new eyeglasses were broke ands had done some scratching on my nose as well. I tell you I have black eyeliner and red roughish look above both eyes and a cut on bridge of nose.

I may have fallen askeep but I think it might have been my oxygen cut off because my head was down. I truly do use 02 at night time so who knows. I just know I am so glad that I have another pair of glasses to wear. Pati I so wish you could get your eye exammmmms and all done. I have ruined a couple of glasses so knew how awful it is without any to wear so I was fortunate enough to ask hubby for 2 pair.

I agree about walmart eye doctors being good but it was with one from WM that scared me so bad way back in 02 about my eye troubles, the reitonapathy from high blood pressure, the mention of wet or dry machulation and cataracts. well pooh on the catracts is what I say, I don't think they are that bad as yet and I do not want to even discuss having them taken off.

I will second that also about BOLD on the writing. it makes it so much easier for someone with eye seeing problems to be able to read what is said. That is why I have asked a few times for people to use the bold feature. how sad for those with eye problems if they cannot even see what is being written here.

That visit sure set off some big time depression for me tho. yep eyes are a big bonus on my thank you page as well

[tic chick]

joy ,

i'm so sorry that happened, joy. glad it wasn't any worse, bad enough it was what it was.

do you take any drugs that cause "orthostatic hypotension"? some blood pressure meds and some anxiety meds do that...when you stand up fast, you get dizzy or if you are looking up for a period of time the heart can't pump hard enough to get blood to your brain and you faint.

i remember my ex having cataracts operated on when he was in his late 50's, his eyesight was getting bad. it seems people with severe nearsightedness have higher risks for developing cataracts and having detached retinas, which the ex also had on both eyes and had to have emergency surgery twice, 2 years apart.

take care of yourself, joy ,
jeannie

[Buttons2]

tomorrow I predict your eyes will be very black. sorry this happened to you JOY! you need to see your doc & make sure you're OK? WM glasses will be reordered for you FREE. you will be sore also. so please treat yourself like a queen. cold compress might help. think of one thing: you were trying to do something productive & look what happened-so take it easy is my best advice. Pati

[dawnmn]

Joy, I hope that you go to the doctor. You shouldn't be pasting out like that. I don't think that it's a normal thing to happen.

[lor]

joy, You should go see your Dr. I wonder if you have some sotr of imbalence of something.

[Jo6]

Joy sweetie, I think you need to check in with one of your Dr.s Maybe l read it wrong, but to gust doze off to sleep while you are perched on the arm of . A chair dose not sound right.

I know you and I both have dozed. Off in some stranger places, but you do need to check with Dr. Don't want you to just brush this aside. I care too much to have you fall in the floor or somewhere else and break a hip or leg.

Take care dear ((((joy)))) jo

[joy]

as i had a schduled appointment scheduled soon i just waited. i have eye shiners above and below and a cut on nose ridge. i have more appointments to take and i had just finished a lot about a year ago when the discovered the 2 blood clots in lungs. i do get to quit the coumadin or warafin tabs as it has been a year now. take care all.

[houghchrst]

joy glad you got to the doc. Hope it's not still smartin' terribly.

[joy]

correction

I am chanin g the dat as it was the 16 of feb. I still have a knot I had t have someone feel it aas I could not see it veru well, glasses were broke and the others were shaded. lol I probably had a mild concussion but blamed everything on neuropathy. this is still here with eyeliner. i sure am not too concerened I guess becuse a concussion did not even enter ,y thoughts at all. well more to follow but better hopefully.

this is just to keep it straight as the longer time passes, the better my thinking clears a little.

.

[Jo6]

Joy, I hope you are doing better. you take care of yourself. life gets rough sometimes, you know. jo

[joy]

I still have some of the redness that use to be black/blue on my cheek under eyes where glasses hit and forehead is still very much there with bruises still and oh yes still a knot after all this time. I use my cane more now thaneever but still am flabbergasted about what was said in my last doctor meeting. I want a do-over! well I will get my chance more than likely and will discuss it again. When you have had such a fall and injury to head like I had, your conversations will be even harder to follow, mine as well as everyone else's. That doctor meeting sure got out of hand real fast and I still can see me just blabbering and not making any sense at all.

[Buttons2]

Joy, I'm still confused since my cat scan showed a concussion but then my doc wrote a note for the court (on that case I'm supposed to testify for) that said I've suffered several small strokes & it would be dangerous for me to go to court!

hope you get off the rat poison soon! and find out why you fell too! take care friend.

[joy]

yes I am off the coumadin or warifin. Hubby will have to stay on his for life tho because of whatever. I still have the bruise on head and where my glasses hit under my eyes is still red. Yep I must have had a concussion and that would explain why I did not even think of one even tho I did have all that medical training. Guess hubbys excuse is he learned not to suggest that I go to hospital, lol. I have had several head hits, one when I fell off a heavy metal thing hubby was using as a ladder in storage to get to attic. another slipped on ice and back of head went down and smacked hard. I am not looking for anymorehead injuries for sure. probaly more but that ia enough for me to recall right now.

I still say I was up late the night before and i have a habit of holding my breayth at times and then releasing it. same as my shoulders getting tense and i keep them raised up. hubby has noticed all this and told doctor at first but then they latched onto something else. I hope to get it all straightened out next visit. I just stay up late watching tv. and if i stay up past a certain point, i am a wide awake demon it seems, lol. take care all.

[houghchrst]

Pati maybe the doc figured he was helping out of testifying and figured a concussion wasnt good enough. you never know what theyre thinking sometimes.

Joy have you gotten new glasses? Are you using the walker? Yeah I'm nosy.

[joy]

i did buy another cane, does that count? my walker that I used when foot was so bad is in storage. I now have a cane that I can leave in the vehicle and hasve it if I walk out and leave one behind. I have some days where I am steadier on my feet than others. It is just that since i do not feel my feet, those unexpected holes in cement or ground causes me to have a bad time of it. but I am not as hard headed as I use to be, if I need to be steadied, I use the cane. hubby is not always close enough for me to grab onto him, lol. and the cane is steadfast right by my side when I need it.

new glasses, yes, did you miss where i said i ordered 2 pair the last time? well I did because I hate being without glasses. perhapsd it was a good thing. it cosdt $95 for them to grind down the lens and also to redo the leg part (side) of glasses. they were so bad off after the crash.