SGT Action from our April Trip: Concentrated just like. . .

[February]

But like I said, my aunt had mumps four times, and supposedly you can't get it twice, or more than two times. Might apply to the rest of us, but if you've got a weird immune system--my aunt also had polio in one leg--anything's possible. My youngest sister had chickenpox and scarlet fever when the rest of us kids just had chicken pox. Mom took her to the doctor, and the next thing she knows the doctor goes and brings in a bunch of other doctors to see my sister. They're saying things like, "I saw that one time in medical school...." and mom's wondering what the heck was going on! That was when we found out about the scarlet fever plus chicken pox. My sister also had ear problems, etc.. She's a total hypochondriac now. She always did get all the attention.... :mad:

OMG! I so hate being the 'you'll see this once in your career' person too! I know how your sister feels! Every time I go in for something, it seems like they troop in the residents and students and say "You'll never see this again in your career!" The latest thing is with my eyes. All kinds of defects in them and they always say it's so cool to see the rods and cones in my eyes light up like spokes on a wheel. Well tha'ts great @@@)*^! but you've been shining the frigging light in my face for fifteen minutes, could you knock it off now??!!!! I am totally not a hypocondriac though there is so much documentable that's wrong with my body who the heck would need to imagine anything else!

News from the specialist about my eyes scared the heck out of me and now I don't know if I'll be having the lens replacement surgery. They said they may need to use all kinds of little bungie cords and tension rings to hold my iris in place because it's "Floppy". I'm absolutely freaked way the hell out over this and may just live with the loss of vision in the one eye until the other one goes bad too- which they say could happen tomorrow, or could happen ten minutes after I"m dead. They can't predict. They only know that the line of vision in my left eye is totally obscured and that's why it's now purely decorative :/

I HATE being the 'rare' case!!! GAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Sorry, felt good to get that out after days of stewing!)

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

OMG! I so hate being the 'you'll see this once in your career' person too! I know how your sister feels! Every time I go in for something, it seems like they troop in the residents and students and say "You'll never see this again in your career!" The latest thing is with my eyes. All kinds of defects in them and they always say it's so cool to see the rods and cones in my eyes light up like spokes on a wheel. Well tha'ts great @@@)*^! but you've been shining the frigging light in my face for fifteen minutes, could you knock it off now??!!!! I am totally not a hypocondriac though there is so much documentable that's wrong with my body who the heck would need to imagine anything else!

News from the specialist about my eyes scared the heck out of me and now I don't know if I'll be having the lens replacement surgery. They said they may need to use all kinds of little bungie cords and tension rings to hold my iris in place because it's "Floppy". I'm absolutely freaked way the hell out over this and may just live with the loss of vision in the one eye until the other one goes bad too- which they say could happen tomorrow, or could happen ten minutes after I"m dead. They can't predict. They only know that the line of vision in my left eye is totally obscured and that's why it's now purely decorative :/

I HATE being the 'rare' case!!! GAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Sorry, felt good to get that out after days of stewing!)

Next time take a laser pointer.. Tell the doctor that you will start shining it in HIS eyes, two minutes AFTER his exam of your eyes start! That way you will all be on the same playing field!!


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[February]

Or at the very least a nice sizable Maglite! Believe me, I've considered it!

It's by the time the third person is blinding you with the slit lamp and they've dialated your eyes so big you look like PussNBoots from Shrek, then you know that you're in trouble. . .

I should have said in the previous post that I may wait until my right eye gets 'as bad' as my left one. They tell me that the obstructions behind the lens are about the same size in each eye, only difference is that the one in the right hasn't crossed that vital line yet wherever that is.

I just don't like the idea of them stretching my iris out like a drumhead and then clamping it into place to, what was that LOVELY term the docs used. . .oh yeah, "shore up" the eye. That was when I almost tossed my cookies on his shoes.

I kept it together- but the thought still makes me weak kneed. And I'm no whimp medically. Something about this just freaks me out completely.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Or at the very least a nice sizable Maglite! Believe me, I've considered it!

It's by the time the third person is blinding you with the slit lamp and they've dialated your eyes so big you look like PussNBoots from Shrek, then you know that you're in trouble. . .

I should have said in the previous post that I may wait until my right eye gets 'as bad' as my left one. They tell me that the obstructions behind the lens are about the same size in each eye, only difference is that the one in the right hasn't crossed that vital line yet wherever that is.

I just don't like the idea of them stretching my iris out like a drumhead and then clamping it into place to, what was that LOVELY term the docs used. . .oh yeah, "shore up" the eye. That was when I almost tossed my cookies on his shoes.

I kept it together- but the thought still makes me weak kneed. And I'm no whimp medically. Something about this just freaks me out completely.

Hmmm, I have several old maglights that I could loan you!

My favorite is a 4 "D" cell model. a little old, and only has a few teeth marks on it!!

[DisneyMom]

But you can ALWAYS use the eggs!!

Baaa dum dum dum!!! :rimshot:

HEHE, we DID have chickens at the time! :p: Ex-Husband going through a "We'll raise our own food" stage.....

[EeyoresButterfly]

I could never do the raise our own food thing. I get way too attached to animals (and I've seen way too many Disney movies). I remember going to a crab shack on the Chesapeake with my family when I was 15. They bring out the whole dang crab, and I just couldn't do it. I gave up after one crab. I kept expecting it to get up and start singing "Under the Sea." Another time I was at a luau complete with a pig with apple in its mouth. I couldn't eat it, all I could think about was Wilbur from Charlotte's Web. If it can look at me with big sad innocent eyes, I do not eat it. I know where meat comes from, I just prefer to not think about it when I'm eating it.

I could also never cook lobster or crab. I hear when you drop them in the pot it sounds like they a screaming due to the steam escaping their shells. Not only could I never drop a live animal into a vat of boiling water, if I heard what sounded like screaming, I would cry. Does anybody else find the whole idea of pick your own lobster at Red Lobster disturbing? I wouldn't like to think that it's by my choice that cute innocent lobster gets sentenced to death. It's morbid.

[DisneyMom]

I could never do the raise our own food thing. I get way too attached to animals (and I've seen way too many Disney movies). I remember going to a crab shack on the Chesapeake with my family when I was 15. They bring out the whole dang crab, and I just couldn't do it. I gave up after one crab. I kept expecting it to get up and start singing "Under the Sea." Another time I was at a luau complete with a pig with apple in its mouth. I couldn't eat it, all I could think about was Wilbur from Charlotte's Web. If it can look at me with big sad innocent eyes, I do not eat it. I know where meat comes from, I just prefer to not think about it when I'm eating it.

I could also never cook lobster or crab. I hear when you drop them in the pot it sounds like they a screaming due to the steam escaping their shells. Not only could I never drop a live animal into a vat of boiling water, if I heard what sounded like screaming, I would cry. Does anybody else find the whole idea of pick your own lobster at Red Lobster disturbing? I wouldn't like to think that it's by my choice that cute innocent lobster gets sentenced to death. It's morbid.

To make you feel a (little) better, we ate the eggs, not the chickens :D:
Unfortunately, some of our chickens fell prey to a wandering Bobcat
We did raise a couple of pigs too....ummm, I felt bad until I was eating all the meat. Funny how we are able to disconnect our mind from a lot of things.

Did anyone else think it was weird that Ariel was almost treated to a Sebastian dinner?

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

To make you feel a (little) better, we ate the eggs, not the chickens :D:
Unfortunately, some of our chickens fell prey to a wandering Bobcat
We did raise a couple of pigs too....ummm, I felt bad until I was eating all the meat. Funny how we are able to disconnect our mind from a lot of things.

Did anyone else think it was weird that Ariel was almost treated to a Sebastian dinner?

And if you think about it, what do fish eat?

really sort of a "circle of life" thing, but we don't give it that much thought.

[Bochocho]

I could also never cook lobster or crab. I hear when you drop them in the pot it sounds like they a screaming due to the steam escaping their shells. Not only could I never drop a live animal into a vat of boiling water, if I heard what sounded like screaming, I would cry. Does anybody else find the whole idea of pick your own lobster at Red Lobster disturbing? I wouldn't like to think that it's by my choice that cute innocent lobster gets sentenced to death. It's morbid.

I'd never second-guess anyone's decision not to eat meat (or lobster or whatever) but I'm a New Englander who lives for lobster. We have it at our house a few times a year, and over the course of my entire life I've never heard the 'scream' people say happens. (Like you said, it's steam escaping, supposedly.)
I'm not saying it doesn't happen, I just don't think it's that common.

But again, I'm not judging the decision not to eat it, by any means. (More for me!) I just think if someone grew up in a fisherman's household they wouldn't give it a second thought. Also, when I look at the spiny, prickly, spider-like nightmare appearance of a lobster, the last word that comes to mind is 'cute.' ;-)

And the idea of Red Lobster is disturbing. Not the 'pick your own lobster' part, just the idea of Red Lobster. (Said the seafood snob.) ;-)

[February]

I could never do the raise our own food thing. I get way too attached to animals (and I've seen way too many Disney movies). I remember going to a crab shack on the Chesapeake with my family when I was 15. They bring out the whole dang crab, and I just couldn't do it. I gave up after one crab. I kept expecting it to get up and start singing "Under the Sea." Another time I was at a luau complete with a pig with apple in its mouth. I couldn't eat it, all I could think about was Wilbur from Charlotte's Web. If it can look at me with big sad innocent eyes, I do not eat it. I know where meat comes from, I just prefer to not think about it when I'm eating it.

I could also never cook lobster or crab. I hear when you drop them in the pot it sounds like they a screaming due to the steam escaping their shells. Not only could I never drop a live animal into a vat of boiling water, if I heard what sounded like screaming, I would cry. Does anybody else find the whole idea of pick your own lobster at Red Lobster disturbing? I wouldn't like to think that it's by my choice that cute innocent lobster gets sentenced to death. It's morbid.

It's so hard for me to eat meat! If I could tolerate most of the soy-based veggie-burger type foods I'd be a total veggie. But I get sick(er) if I don't get enough protein and I can't do the tofu stuff well. I can't think about where it comes from and it's become nearly impossible for me to cook and handle raw meat. If I had to kill something to eat it I'd starve.

I didn't eat any seafood for two years after Mermaid came out. . .

and I think even more disturbing than the pick your own lobster (which does freak me out esp. since the time we saw the lobsters piling up on top of each other to try to escape the tank- and the hostess told us once, a couple of them actually made it out by doing that!) but the Coral Reef at the Seas in EPCOT totally freaks me out. Ask for a window table, they say, so you can watch the friends of your dinner swimming around you while you dine on their buddies??? that's just wrong.