Thanks @Lizzie27. It is going to be complicated by it being the major holiday month so half of paris and northern France has descended for 3 weeks and most of the locals also disappear so builders, trades people and bodyshops are either closed or on minimum staffing levels.
I remember chaos in Brussels when Clinton came for a NATO summit and insisted on going for his morning run - streets closed and helicipters and armed cars all over the place.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I think there's been a hatch of annoying flies with this wet weather today. I walked about two miles earlier and I swear for about half of that the same fly was orbiting my head and periodically trying to find out if it could fly through my head via my ears. After a huge gust of wind I managed to lose it but then I found its friends on the way back.
It was that odd summer weather too where the wind and rain balance out so you dry out about as quickly as you're getting wet and you just keep a kind of surface dampness. It would have been enjoyable if it wasn't for the fly.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Completely confused . I
have age related Macular Degeneration (ARMD) in one eye ( well both
but because its not in the centre in the other eye its of no
consequence apparently). To date I have seen four eye different consultants , no
bad thing I suppose as one gets a variety of opinions however I'm at
a point now where I'm completely confused and don't know if I'm
caught in some sort of professional ego battle between two
consultants.
Consultant A tells me I
need an injection into the eye else I'll get scaring.
Consultant
B tells me not to have the injection and reels off a long list of
what could go wrong and states that my eye is actually improving and
not getting worse and you'll have scarring whether you have the
injection or not he would just keep monitoring and check every three
months.
Obviously I'm not
qualified to know what to do but, which one of these is right. I don't know I look to them for guidance...
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
My curmudge is that the rooks, magpies and blackbirds which have removed 46 (at the latest count) ofthe nearly-ripe cooking apples from the top of my enormous Arthur Turner tree, just take half a dozen pecks out of the pink, sweeter side, leaving me the bruised bit to prepare and cook.
I'd leave them to their feast - except that there are very few fruit low enough for me to pick this year, even with my enormous extending picker thingy, thanks to the bullfinches munching the lower flower buds last spring.
Still, I guess it's nice to share...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
@Kili, sorry about your eye issues. I know nothing about eyes, but what i can say, is that sometimes in medicine, when the choice between treatment A and treatment B is really unclear, then the proponents of either tend to be more didactic as to which is best. The less there is to choose between two options, the more extreme the views tens to be. As a patient, this obviously makes life very difficult.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Goodness me that's an unenviable position to be in Kili especially when two experts have totally opposite opinions. If you have a choice, Liriodendron's idea of asking C and D might be the only way you might feel happier about treatment, whatever it is.
Problem is with regard to C & D one never knows who ones going to see next. If I do see either C or D again I'll ask for their take on the situation. I have 3 months until next appointment. Eye seems to be stable so I'm not too worried at this point in time just irritated at the lack of consensus on what to do.
C'est la Vie
Thanks for your support everyone.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
The problem when it comes to medical opinion on the best course of action is that they can both be right depending on their personal experience of treatments. There is rarely just one correct route to follow.
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I remember chaos in Brussels when Clinton came for a NATO summit and insisted on going for his morning run - streets closed and helicipters and armed cars all over the place.
My curmudgeon to day is:
Completely confused . I have age related Macular Degeneration (ARMD) in one eye
( well both but because its not in the centre in the other eye its of no consequence apparently). To date I have seen four eye different consultants , no bad thing I suppose as one gets a variety of opinions however I'm at a point now where I'm completely confused and don't know if I'm caught in some sort of professional ego battle between two consultants.
Consultant A tells me I need an injection into the eye else I'll get scaring.
Consultant B tells me not to have the injection and reels off a long list of what could go wrong and states that my eye is actually improving and not getting worse and you'll have scarring whether you have the injection or not he would just keep monitoring and check every three months.
Obviously I'm not qualified to know what to do but, which one of these is right. I don't know I look to them for guidance...
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
I'd leave them to their feast - except that there are very few fruit low enough for me to pick this year, even with my enormous extending picker thingy, thanks to the bullfinches munching the lower flower buds last spring.
Still, I guess it's nice to share...
I know nothing about eyes, but what i can say, is that sometimes in medicine, when the choice between treatment A and treatment B is really unclear, then the proponents of either tend to be more didactic as to which is best. The less there is to choose between two options, the more extreme the views tens to be.
As a patient, this obviously makes life very difficult.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
C'est la Vie
Thanks for your support everyone.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'