The European Elections are coming up, June 4th believe! The good news is that there is finally a party to vote for that is pro worker, anti big business and NOT a nationalistic party! The No 2 EU yes to democracy is a temporary joining together of left parties and trade unions to protest against the anti worker EU, watch this video to find out more!
An amusing video from Cracked TV of 12 world records from TV shows around the world that are a bit pointless…
Well I am past the week point! Yesturday I had the bandage contact lense removed which felt a little werid for a little time after but went back to normal after a while. Not really painful just, you know, like something was missing…cause it was.
The Doc also checked my eye and it had healed over well, he said. I then had an eye test and the Doc said my left eye (the one I had treatment on) was back to where it was before, which seemed good, I think, as I had heard it could take longer. I don’t need to now see him for three months, and then I guess I’ll go back to the usual yearly check ups on my eyes to monitor the left eye to see if the treatement works, and detect when it develops in my right eye. Sounds like there’s a very good chance it will from what i know of the condition (think its 80% of cases do, might be more), but don’t think it has yet. Well I say that but, when I had my first consultation with the Doctor who performed the treatment he was saying that from all the scanning machines and what not it indicated there is evidence to suggest it could possibly now be at the stage of developing but it is still debatable, but at any rate the vision in my right eye is still good, I think!
I’m down to just to drugs now. I have switched from the antibiotic eye drops to I think to a different antibiotic eye drop and I still have some anti viral drugs to take twice a day still.
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Analysis of the recent Budget and Economic Crisis by Peter Taaffe, the General Secretary of the Socialist Party. The camera work is a bit bad, but it’s a good speech.
I saw this film a few weeks ago at the ICA in London and loved it. Truly brilliant film, even though I was a bit hung over it gripped me. It’s a very interesting portrayal of contemporary family life in Japan. The film is shot in a clinical humorous manner, I think much more like real Japan. Often you see there media and they convey notions of being very extrovert when I think the opposite is actually true outside of this media perception of the place. The country is very nationalistic, repressive and traditional, generally anyway.
I also badly need a copy of that piano piece at the end. Its so enchanting but can’t find it anywhere! From what I can muster the films Score was written for the film aside from Clair de Lune. Seems to be out on DVD mid May, not sure if it’s still being shown anywhere.
Well yesterday and today my eyes gave been nice and white, and fully open. Every morning there have been definite improvement so far. On the first day my eye was half closed and painful, the second day was still half closed but not to painful, I could feel it but that’s it. Third day my eye was full open but still blury, no pain. Today fully open still still blury perhaps less.
I have a few less drugs to take now, after today. I can stop taking one of the ones for pain in the eye from mid day and yesterday I stopped one of the eye drops which hopefully means I will feel ok to drive soon, need to ask the doctor I suppose though first.
I will continue to take the anti viral (I think it is) oral pill and the artificial eye drops and the antibiotic drops for another couple of weeks now. Getting better with doing the eye drops, was a bit of a concern of mine if I was getting enough in the eye but not to hard once you get the hang of it.
I don’t think I’m totally clear yet, I think risk of infection is usually in the first week so. I still have a couple of days. I can have the contact lense bandage removed next week I believe (week after op). I assume also the superficial layer of the cornea they removed will have grown back by now.
Currently I feel fine, and able to work. I work from home mostly so no need to drive anyway.
Really awesome video from 2007 of a lecture by John Pilger about the media machine and western propaganda, 43 minutes so bit of a watch but well worth it.
Well feeling better now I think I have worked out a good system with taking the drugs, there’s about seven of the damn things. A combo of eye drops and pills. I don’t like taking eye drops, it can be difficult to get them in your eye!
Pain wise I don’t think it’s been to bad, it was painful half an hour or so after the treatment but that went once I took the painkillers, came back a bit a couple of hours later but then pretty much went after a long sleep. Been sleeping a lot, think its the drugs.
My vision is slightly more blurred then usual, redness in my eye has gone down a lot. I have lost my glasses so I don’t know what its like with them on! But I can read text on the screen and what not.
Had a check up today where they cleaned the eye and the Doc took a look at it, said everything was fine at the moment. Next appointment is in a weeks time.
So, so far so good just got to make sure I keep on track with the drugs and if anything does happen, out of the blue, to ring the hospital!
Well I had the treatment at 2pm, was totally painless, a bit strange with the stuff they put in your eye and the UV light, a bit like a slightly unpleasant psychedelic trip with the just sitting there with nothing to do.
It was quite painful after the anaesthetic wore off, I took the pain killers they gave me. That helped slightly but still was quite painful so took the eye drop pain relief that you should use sparingly. The pains totally gone now. There’s so many different tablets and eye drops to take, it’s a bit over whelming especially when I was in a lot of pain. Taken some of them still need to now work out what to take and such like. Have an appointment tomorrow to check the bandage contact lense they put on during the treatment so I will ask then I think.
My biggest concern now is making sure I take all the drugs right! I can see mostly fine at the moment just goes out of focus frequently, not sure I could drive in this state, will see tomorrow.
Hope this all makes sense as proof reading has been a challenge, think i will go and lie down now.