Dying
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Don't get me started on eyes. I don't mind wearing glasses - certainly prefer wearing them all the tie to the days when I was constantly putting them on, taking them off etc.
I had surgery on my eye lids in October. As we age gravity means everything heads south including your eye lids. I double down with a genetic disorder that effectively meant I was borderline to drive even with glasses because my eye lids had progressively covered a lot of my eyes. I hadn't noticed but I literally could not see anything above or to the side of my eyes until it was within 15 cms.
Relatively straight forward surgery they cut open your eye lid attach it to a muscle in the eyebrow and remove the fold of skin this creates.
Post Op though. I had to ice my eyes with little bags of frozen peas (changing them every 20 minutes) for the first three days. I thought I'd be back at work by then. HA! After a week I looked like Mike Tyson in his prime had used my face as a punch bag.
I still have swelling and itching 6 weeks later and the whole area is still quite tender. Apparently according to Dr Google swelling can last ….. A YEAR!
Colonoscopy's are a doddle by comparison
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Don't get me started on eyes. I don't mind wearing glasses - certainly prefer wearing them all the tie to the days when I was constantly putting them on, taking them off etc.
I had surgery on my eye lids in October. As we age gravity means everything heads south including your eye lids. I double down with a genetic disorder that effectively meant I was borderline to drive even with glasses because my eye lids had progressively covered a lot of my eyes. I hadn't noticed but I literally could not see anything above or to the side of my eyes until it was within 15 cms.
Relatively straight forward surgery they cut open your eye lid attach it to a muscle in the eyebrow and remove the fold of skin this creates.
Post Op though. I had to ice my eyes with little bags of frozen peas (changing them every 20 minutes) for the first three days. I thought I'd be back at work by then. HA! After a week I looked like Mike Tyson in his prime had used my face as a punch bag.
I still have swelling and itching 6 weeks later and the whole area is still quite tender. Apparently according to Dr Google swelling can last ….. A YEAR!
Colonoscopy's are a doddle by comparison
Colonoscopy is nothing. It's the prepping that's shit. Boom tish.
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@Rembrandt said in Aging:
Had a GP who recommended I get a molemap, I said $300.00 is pretty steep, he responded "Its cheaper than a coffin"
I got the molemap.
You don't miss the cost of the coffin though
The link to death made me think the moles were troublesome. Turns out they were fine.
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@Rembrandt said in Aging:
Had a GP who recommended I get a molemap, I said $300.00 is pretty steep, he responded "Its cheaper than a coffin"
I got the molemap.
You don't miss the cost of the coffin though
Bugger that. I'll be flung from a trebuchet onto a burning pyre. Even more amusing if they miss...
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I would encourage everyone to get a molemap at least once, if only to identify any potential problems and to provide a baseline for any future checks (if required). I have paid $219 for my last two.
$131 for full mole map if you are an AA member in NZ (as in Automobile Association not the other one)
Or you can get up to 5 areas of concern checked out for free.
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yeah I think the pricing has come down in the last couple of years considerably, was over $300 IIRC when they first started offering them...still should be free, similarly all cancer checks, would cost initially but the long-term benefit to society and the health system would surely outweigh the current set up.
Mind you, even free some people still probably wouldnt go.
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@taniwharugby said in Aging:
Mind you, even free some men still probably wouldnt go.
fixed for accuracy
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@Rembrandt said in Aging:
Had a GP who recommended I get a molemap, I said $300.00 is pretty steep, he responded "Its cheaper than a coffin"
I got the molemap.
You don't miss the cost of the coffin though
It also falls apart if you plan to be cremated ... urns must be cheaper than $300 I'd say?
So weird that in NZ and Oz mole maps aren't free. As @taniwharugby notes surely it must be cheaper in the long run for the respective countries health services to have free check ups rather than be the ambulance at bottom of the cliff.
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@mariner4life said in Aging:
So weird that in NZ and Oz mole maps aren't free
fucking communist!
I do work for a Chinese organisation ... well, for one more day anyway.
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So weird that in NZ and Oz mole maps aren't free. As @taniwharugby notes surely it must be cheaper in the long run for the respective countries health services to have free check ups rather than be the ambulance at bottom of the cliff.
$100 for the checkup
$100 for last week's knife work
$100 for this week's knife workIf I had more, it'd be $100 a pop because "equipment costs".
Why the fuck they couldn't just do both last week, and save themselves the cost of the equipment getting bloody a second time?
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@Rembrandt said in Aging:
Had a GP who recommended I get a molemap, I said $300.00 is pretty steep, he responded "Its cheaper than a coffin"
I got the molemap.
You don't miss the cost of the coffin though
It also falls apart if you plan to be cremated ... urns must be cheaper than $300 I'd say?
The most modestly priced receptacle is US$180.
Unless you use a biscuit tin...
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Ok, I have a rec for dairy/gluten/soy free ice cream: Little Island (can get from most supermarkets.) I don't make this rec lightly, but today I bought Vanilla Bean and Raspberry Chocolate and they were both YUM. Bonus, they are cheaper than Ben & Jerry's and Halo. (Halo tastes like shit, don't even bother.)
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Don't get me started on eyes.
If it makes you feel any better - I drive my father down to Auckland every 6 weeks to get injections in his eyes (sometimes he deserves it, most of the time not). Yes, they stick needles in them to stop macular degeneration. Poor old bugger.
Medically interesting though. They discovered that a drug being developed for cancer helped stop degeration. Was a fluke apparently.
What I cant work out is why someone decided to stab a patient in the eye with a needle and they realised that it had halted the macular problem.
