Good morning!
Planning on a game of Carcassonne, maybe going to an info session on a senior coop in downtown Minneapolis near the big parks, walking Gus in the neighborhood (-10F currently!
) and putzing. The senior coop doesn't seem to have any one bedroom units so I might not be interested. I'm avoiding all these places that just have two sink bathrooms
.
Laura, I've cut down on taking anti-inflammatories (naproxen) - right now I'm just taking once a week before WRC duties, but really don't need them. I used to take them daily, but that pain has gone away with my joint replacements. I still have some arthritis in my back that could use the anti-inflammatory, which is why I take it before WRC duty which involves lots of bending over. I don't know if your rheumatoid arthritis needs different anti-inflammatories than my regular arthritis. Hope you can find some relief.
I have glaucoma in my eyes - both eyes have been treated surgically with holes to reduce pressure in the eye and I need to massage the eyes to keep the holes open. I used to do it once a day on both eyes, but twice the amount of massage on the right eye, now I'm doing the right eye four times a day. My eye pressure has never been above normal (18-20 mm), but with the holes, my left eye is reduced to about 8-10 mm, but my right eye reads 18-20 mm (some scarring post-surgery). After just one 10 second massage, it was down to 12 mm at the office, which is why she wants me to now massage four times a day. My right eye is my good eye, unfortunately there was some optic nerve bleeding seen in my last visit, which isn't good. I'm still taking one prescription drop in my right eye, but it doesn't drop the pressure too much (grown longer eyelashes in that eye though
). Glaucoma sucks.
Paula, I didn't take my glasses with me when I was at the eye doctor's - they have me read the letters as well as I can, but I really don't use glasses much in my daily life. If I do a close project like reading or sewing, I use regular OTC magnifiers. I used to go to optometrists and remember one seeing my weird optic nerve in my left eye but not reporting it as glaucoma possibility as my pressure was normal... That was about five years before I got diagnosed with glaucoma by an ophthalmologist (about ten years ago). My left eye is bad now - couldn't drive if that was my vision. Have fun selecting new frames for your glasses!
Waves to all!
Anita