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What is more valuable?

What is more valuable?

  • Excess Shop Space

    Votes: 4 28.6%

  • Excellent Health

    Votes: 10 71.4%
  • Total voters
    14
I can now reveal that this was actually a trick rhetorical question to see how much attention people pay.

You see I asked "excellent health" rather than good health.

Good health is all that is required to be able to enjoy a shop. Excellent health is what you'd want to run a marathon or something else equally as unappealing.

I've felt like crap for the last few years in particular, and while I do wish for better health, I far more frequently wish I had more shop space every time I see an unusual or cool machine tool.

I've resigned myself to the fact I'll never have either excellent health or excess shop space. So I'm perfecting the art of musical machine tools, and trying to put systems in place to accommodate my day to day good health vagarities...
 
This thread reminded me of a joke.

A 90 year old man that’s quite famous marries a beautiful 24 years old.

He’s being interviewed and of course the conversation eventually turns to his new wife and eventually the interviewer asks the question everyone wants to know about: “What about sex, um, there is such a big difference in age, what would happen um, if sex causes death”

To which he responds “At my age that’s not a concern, if she dies she dies”.
 
Health. I can always buy bigger space.
Got my first eye floater on the weekend. Dead center field of view! No reasonable fix available.
Pierre
 
pdentrem said:
Health. I can always buy bigger space.
Got my first eye floater on the weekend. Dead center field of view! No reasonable fix available.
Pierre
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If it is a typical floater, it will drift over time and also dissolve over time. But ya, sometimes they just keep growing. If it gets really bad, an opthamolic surgeon can suck it out by vitrectomy.

In my opinion, you should get it looked at to start a medical paper trail. That way, the vitrectomy isn't an impossible process when and if that time comes.
 
pdentrem said:
Health. I can always buy bigger space.
Got my first eye floater on the weekend. Dead center field of view! No reasonable fix available.
Pierre
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eye floaters suck... I tend to get them due to an inflammatory condition.

there is new research that suggests fruit enzymes can reduce the number of floaters, but since the study relied on patient "observations" as to the number and size of floaters the data is highly questionable.

A wellness company is marketing an antioxidant treatment but I could never find results for the study they claimed to have dont to prove their assertions.

Your Ophthalmologist should be up on the latest treatment options, and may have a better idea of the value of supplements. The surgery option is usually for other conditions or severe detachment of the vitreous humour and thread interfering with other portions of the eye, or threatening to cause retinal detachment.

The funny thing is, if it is your every day type floater by the time you wait it out and see doctor you may no longer notice it as the brain starts to ignore it like it's a homeless beggar on a 401 offramp
 
TorontoBuilder said:
eye floaters suck... I tend to get them due to an inflammatory condition.

there is new research that suggests fruit enzymes can reduce the number of floaters, but since the study relied on patient "observations" as to the number and size of floaters the data is highly questionable.

A wellness company is marketing an antioxidant treatment but I could never find results for the study they claimed to have dont to prove their assertions.

Your Ophthalmologist should be up on the latest treatment options, and may have a better idea of the value of supplements. The surgery option is usually for other conditions or severe detachment of the vitreous humour and thread interfering with other portions of the eye, or threatening to cause retinal detachment.

The funny thing is, if it is your every day type floater by the time you wait it out and see doctor you may no longer notice it as the brain starts to ignore it like it's a homeless beggar on a 401 offramp
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If the floaters are numerous enough or large enough to impair vison, your ophthalmic surgeon may do a vitrectomy. This involves draining the vitreous fluid to remove the floaters, using laser surgery to repair any leaking blood vessels which are often the cause of said floaters, and in my case, refilling the eye with nitrogen to keep the structural stability while the eye slowly refills with natural vitreous fluid. While the eye refills it is like looking at the bubble in a level only upside down, as in it appears to fill from the top down. Grade 8 science class is useful in explaining why that appears to be the case. For a while I was able to level pictures just by looking at them with the affected eye. Takes several months to fully recover.
 
Doggggboy said:
in my case, refilling the eye with nitrogen to keep the structural stability while the eye slowly refills with natural vitreous fluid.
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I had a vitrectomy done on my good eye to remove the retinal membrane that wouldn't come off on its own. It was pulling at my retina and causing retinal detachment. Lots more to the story, but the short version is no nitrogen. I think they filtered and recycled my own fluid. Too bad, I would have enjoyed the built-in level!
 
Susquatch said:
I had a vitrectomy done on my good eye to remove the retinal membrane that wouldn't come off on its own. It was pulling at my retina and causing retinal detachment. Lots more to the story, but the short version is no nitrogen. I think they filtered and recycled my own fluid. Too bad, I would have enjoyed the built-in level!
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free tools, how cool is that.
 
Doggggboy said:
If the floaters are numerous enough or large enough to impair vison, your ophthalmic surgeon may do a vitrectomy. This involves draining the vitreous fluid to remove the floaters, using laser surgery to repair any leaking blood vessels which are often the cause of said floaters, and in my case, refilling the eye with nitrogen to keep the structural stability while the eye slowly refills with natural vitreous fluid. While the eye refills it is like looking at the bubble in a level only upside down, as in it appears to fill from the top down. Grade 8 science class is useful in explaining why that appears to be the case. For a while I was able to level pictures just by looking at them with the affected eye. Takes several months to fully recover.
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The vast majority of people over 50 suffer intermittent eye floaters that do not require intervention.

Those whose floaters actually impair their vision should see doctor quickly because such cases are usually related to more serious conditions that will need surgical intervention.

I have an autoimmune disease where my immune system attacks my own body, including my eyes so I tend to get uveitis frequently that causes floaters that are a result of cells shedding from the uvea inside the eye. I'm lucky that the shedding is normally in tiny segments rather than clumps. Because of this I'm not
bothered much by floaters.

But about a decade ago I had a large floater that was causing intermittent visual impairment of the vision. During my consultation we discussed surgical options but during the wait time the floater absorbed enough on its own to cancel surgery. I was lucky in that regard so far.

Fun fact, autoimmune disorders can cause hearing loss too, so you can slowly go deaf and blind each time you have a flare up it gets progressively worse.
 
Susquatch said:
Where is here?
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many places.. seems to be gaining popularity because lasers are taking over everywhere. Researchers keep saying where else can we apply these tools.

But there are not yet comparative studies demonstrating which is more effective even though one may presume that a laser is less invasive and properly wielded should be easy peasey and cheaper in the long run

edit: many places being advanced western nations with superior healthcare
 
TorontoBuilder said:
free tools, how cool is that.
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The big downside was that for the recovery period I had double vision, but only in the right eye.
So, normal vision in the left combined with double vision in the right made for some serious issues. If I looked at the highway with my left eye everything was fine. With my right the highway was about 30 degrees off kilter to the left with another highway super imposed on it about 60 degrees off kilter to the left. I wore a patch for a long time.
 
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TorontoBuilder said:
I've felt like crap for the last few years in particular, and while I do wish for better health, I far more frequently wish I had more shop space every time I see an unusual or cool machine tool.
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Without the health there is no shop....big or small! My philosophy is to concentrate on my health and let the other things fall into place...and ya my shop is a shoe box but I make do!
 
The specialist was concerned about some nodules on the lungs so scheduled a P.E.T scan and found nothing alarming so finally after many requests by people I’m happy to say they are finally going to read my head, Ct scan on Monday.
There’s no worries on my side I’m just hoping they don’t find this…
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