Saints & Misfits by S. K. Ali. Recommended!

Bogle on Mutual Funds - John C. Bogle

Side note: I met the man...unfortunately he has since passed.

OPUS:
By Gareth Gore

Author has a very topical substack

The Complete Guide to Peptides by Hack Smith.

- because I want to learn the basics & mechanics of how they are used, just curious

Ancient history, thoughts on prayer, and short stories.

The Goal - a management-oriented novel by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, a business consultant known for his theory of constraints.

I'm still not finished The Canadian Poetry Book

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, is to be finished by Monday for my Book club

I finished listening to an Inspector Gamache book, A Better Man by Louise Penny. Then listened to

Drums of Autumn by Diane Gabaldon - 4th Outlander book.

Just finished listening to Crazy Eights by Monique Gray Smith. A group of First Nations seniors traveling to Albuquerque New Mexico for the
Gathering of Nations Pow Wow. The characters just sound like a group of women I've known.

Finished News of The World by Paulette Jiles.

Still reading Moby Dick.

No progress on An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield.

Added on Hello Summer by Mary Kay Andrews for my other book club.

Have to look for another audio book before I drive tomorrow.

A bit about NHS/UK research involving same-day cataract replacement surgery for both eyes. There is little, but recent, information from this decade's studies. Apparently, this approach is not for everyone. Some elibility and risk factors have been identified.

In the national (gasp! socialized!) health system, there is interest in efficiency when this does not compromise patient health. People who individually qualify and can arrange asistance for a few days or weeks post-surgery might enjoy a shorter timeframe overall for their cataract surgeries. These patients might identify implications for their work and personal lives. For the health service, there might be some efficiency in use of time and resources.

I would want both eye surgeries on one day. However: If/when the time came, would I qualify for this? Would any practioner near me provide the prefered service?



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@Shop-et-al wrote:

A bit about NHS/UK research involving same-day cataract replacement surgery for both eyes. There is little, but recent, information from this decade's studies. Apparently, this approach is not for everyone. Some elibility and risk factors have been identified.

In the national (gasp! socialized!) health system, there is interest in efficiency when this does not compromise patient health. People who individually qualify and can arrange asistance for a few days or weeks post-surgery might enjoy a shorter timeframe overall for their cataract surgeries. These patients might identify implications for their work and personal lives. For the health service, there might be some efficiency in use of time and resources.

I would want both eye surgeries on one day. However: If/when the time came, would I qualify for this? Would any practioner near me provide the prefered service?

True story:

I was faced (pun intended) with emergency eye/retina surgery at the same time a friend had cataract surgery on his first eye.

He was previously thinking about having both eyes done same day and changed his mind once he realized how much follow up support would be needed.

You’re literally blind in the effected eye(s) because they are covered for a period and activity restricted, based on interim post surgery visits fir progress evaluations. In my case it was a week of laying face down at a certain angle 24/7 with breaks only for food, hydration, and basic personal hygiene, with no activity or stress that would raise my blood pressure.

We couldn’t work or drive either…even to our post op check ups.

If we’d had both done, we’d have needed in-home care 24/7 or admittance to a rehab center because we couldn’t have found the bathroom or fridge (with pre-prepped meals) without assistance.

We’d have needed a driver and guide to get us into/out of the drs offices, and had to hire all of the rest…which isn’t a covered service for this “elective” procedure in the US.

We both thanked (spirit) my accident happened as it did because we couldn’t have made it without hired help otherwise and were able to help each other.

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Sisters of Momaka.

Alice

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker

The Trespasser by Tana French

Hubby had his cataracts done a week apart. Other than a ride home each day, very little support was provided (by me). A person could easily manage at home on their own.
@Shop-et-al what would be the reason to get both done at once?

@prince wrote:

Hubby had his cataracts done a week apart. Other than a ride home each day, very little support was provided (by me). A person could easily manage at home on their own.
@Shop-et-al what would be the reason to get both done at once?

Primarily, to be one/two and done. I love certain challenges and feel that I could plan well and conquer the seemingly daunting issue of making life safe and easy pre-and post-double surgery. (One eye at a time would just be easy peasy. Bleh.)

My eye remained covered until in the office the next day aside from any eye drop management.

I had premature cataracts as a side effect from Lasik about 2001 I actually had two Lasik surgeries in each eye as expected because I am high index myopic--pathalogicial myopathy that remains after the corneal flattening provided me nearly 10 years without any glasses. The first Lasik after healing properly got a good targeted result. As my eyes recovered, one day I could not drive home from Ravinia without staying in the right lane from Highland Park to my dt Chcago condo because my night vision was that bad. Expected. My opthalmalogist gave me new lenses in my old frames temporarily before he was convinced my eyes were stable and he could do the second Lasik round, called an enhancement. My cornease were shaved very thin as they were flattened.

So I had cataract surgery at 58. My two eyes were done five weeks apart.

Part of it is because of my underlying pathological myopia--one eye measures about 27.5 mm the other 28 mm. Any eye surgery like this increases the risk of retinal tears. I have already had posterior vitreal detachments in both eyes--three times total now. I have also had at least two retinal tears already, one being a micro-tear that was not visible but I had flashers and I had the shrouded vision from a PVD and it took a few weeks for my vision in that eye to return to normal.

The day after I picked up my eyeglass scrip after 9.5 years without needing glasses (regression is normal in high index myopia even after Lasik), one eye hemorrhaged.

I have MMD, myopic macular degeneration in one eye. Two rounds of Avastin saved my central vision. I was old when it happened, 46. Usually Myopic MD happens 20s-40s. I got lucky with years of "good" vision.

My worse eye can read an eye chart on the best day at maybe 20/35 with a mulitple pin-hole cover filtering my visual field. But that eye really read an eye chart at 20/80 best vision without that assited device.

Anyway, once again having surgery, besides the normal risk factors of myopia with surgical interventions, I only have one good eye. I chose to do my bad eye first. That way if any measurement of corrective lens were off, not as noticeable in my bad eye.

Five weeks later, I had the second eye done. My MD did not alter the original calculation for the lens that I needed in that second eye. But he wanted to make certain that his original determinations for a lens was still the best while not prematurely starting a second surgery at the risk of complications and leaving me with a larger visual impairment needing correction.

Long story I know.

I can clarify for any that have questions.

The last set of comments seem to have drifted from the topic of "what are you reading."

Then I got it...you're reading an eye chart. Well played.

Eye research, eye experiences, eye charts... the only sensible place to go next was prayers for eyes & eyesight (for everyone) and the venerable old song, Be Thou My Vision. More meaningful for some than for others, probably, but always a good read/listen/think for me

how to make natto at home

What is natto.
I just finished reading (audio book) No Cure for Being Human by Kate Bowler.
Her experience with living through stage 4 colon cancer. Good book.

@prince wrote:

What is natto.

natto is yet another form of fermented soybeans..

Thanks @Morledzep

yes, natto - Japanese fermented soybean dish, mostly for breakfast.
Known for amazing health benefits, but can be tricky to make.

I'm reading (listening to) Restart by Gordon Korman. A middle years book to fill a Book Bingo square.
Pretty good I think.

Good luck with the prep! Never had it. When in China, many street vendors marketed Stinky Tofu. Did not partake. I remember Andrew Zimmern had a segment on Stinky Tofu and his reaction was not positive, Lol. Everyone in my family loves tofu with exception of DH.

@BarefootBliss wrote:

yes, natto - Japanese fermented soybean dish, mostly for breakfast.
Known for amazing health benefits, but can be tricky to make.

I just finished Atomic Habits by James Clear. I haven't decided what to get next. I have been slowly re-reading Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte, so I will probably take that into this week's fast food shops. I read for about 25 minutes after I have everything I need except the bathroom visit, so that the staff pretty much ignore me.

But I need to pick up something for September. I should see who Tim Ferriss has had on his podcast lately.

The Enduring Value of Kindness in the Modern World. (It is on Cynthia Grosso's blog.)

Mystery Shop Forum...duh