Latest moan from you and me 2026

I hope you don't have to wait too long @Ergates

Major moan here. After patchwork club meetings on Mondays I always have admin to do and emails to send and Microsoft flipping Outlook won't play. Anyone else having problems? Any ideas? It says it can't do send/receive.

 

That is great news. Getting my cataracts done was the very best bit of me that I've had removed. Only reading glasses needed now.

 

Thanks @Fat Controller. I haven't switched any settings as I've been out all day and I shall have to ask OH about the ISP tomorrow pm and he's already gone to bed as he's up at stupid o clock tomorrow to go and play golf at the top of the Vendée, 2 hours away.

 

Just popping in to say, @Ergates , that I'm in touch with "Dove from Above" who used to be on "Forkers" on the GW forum. She had cataracts removed recently, found it very straightforward and painless, and recommends it! I'm guessing one doesn't easily notice a gradually increasing problem with eyesight...

 

Go for it, @Ergates! You'll see the world differently afterwards!

 

I had both cataracts done three years ago, two ops some months apart. Operations were no problem, they were done in a private facility by a company with an NHS contract.
I still need glasses for driving and to correct the astigmatism, but for reading no glasses.

 

I know some one who only see's out of 1 eye (born like it) and has a cataract in the good eye but won't have the op untill they can't see much

 

The ophthalmic department at our local hospital got extremely p'd off with the optician we used to use. 3 times they referred my wife to the hospital due to supposed elevated pressures in her eye. Each time the hospital said the pressure was elevated from the 'standard' but still well within the accepted limits. They told my wife they had more referrals from that optician than all the other local opticians combined.
My wife has now been referred, by a different optician, due to cataracts. Still waiting for an appointment to come through. She was told to chase if she hasn't heard anything within 3 months.

 

I was put on the "urgent" cataract list and waited over 7 months, @KT53, including having it cancelled twice. And that was back in the balmy days of 2017, when the NHS was sort of functioning still. I also waited 26 weeks after being referred with possible glaucoma. And that was long ago in 2010, so no Covid-related excuse for the delay.

 

We never knew why/how but my grandad wore glasses for most of his adult life but didn't need them for the last decade. Bizarrely everytime he had a stroke, and he had a few, his eyesight improved

 

What worries me is that how overworked are the people working in hospitals to allow that sort of thing to happen. My mother was a nurse and she always believed it was a calling and there is no way in hell that her colleagues would have let such neglect happen, even if it meant staying late or breaking rules. It means that we have the unpalatable thought that today they don't either care, which I personally don't believe as most of the nurses I've ever met were lovely, or that the system is so screwed that it will never recover.

 

I have been under the impression, rightly or wrongly, that longsitedness can improve with age, I remember my grandmother needed her glasses much less as she got older, and even seen people lift them up if they want to see something close up.

I remember my dad always wearing two pairs, one over the other when taking down the football pools results. Reading glasses over his distance glasses.
He said once, I'd never be able to get on with those fancy Boficals.

 

Must admit that my long sight has actually deteriorated with age. I suppose I do at least still have a brain that works - well, sometimes anyway