Thursday, August 04, 2005

Wednesday Franks and St Pauls.

So its off to franks for the nine twenty slot. In we get he reads letter from eye bloke ok need to rule out pituitary tumour Asap. Two choices and its up to me. 1) normal referral st pauls and wait mebbe 6 weeks. 2) go down today with letter and experience stress but get quick answer. We pick 2.
Back home see ally tell her, go to st p in the royal. Then we are off. Get fields redone, then told the mornings doc knocking off and come back at 2 to see another guy.
Not sure what we can do and to be honest this poleaxes us. So the foody in me reigns supreme and we off to the other place bistro in town. Cept its changed its name it looks similar but is now called the side door. The nice lady who owned the 2 other places in allerton has flogged them and her partner is the chef here.
Anyway I do calves liver and miustard mash and jean does goats cheese and onion tart interestingly also chosen by fellow diners alan yates and sue rubin of merseycare. Good old sue she doesn't change much but I don't let on. Brisk trot back past cathedal I pass some prayers via the paddys wigwam which to them I guess is a broadband connection to God.
This bloke is fantastic a registrar but already a Mr. He takes an extensive history and is impressed with franks thourough referral and the opticians visual field report. He is impressed with my blackberry and is clearly a gadget bloke. I take to him immediatly. He is able to exclude pituitary probs from the fields. I have a consistent abnormality across 3 tests. I was worried I was missing something. He examines. My eyes so thoroughly I can't believe it. He stains them with drops then does it again. He then says he needs to dilate my pupils, checks I am not driving and does the deed. Come back in 20 says he. We head of for coffee and I remember what. Its like having these drops on a bright day. Jean sees some old colleagues. Then back down wait about 10 and its in again. More examination, jean has joined us this time. He has a good look and he decides I have tilted optical nerves and an anomaloy in my visual field defect. Nothing to worry about but come back in 2 month!
s to see low pressure glaucoma specialist.
Deep joy eyes now hurting from brightness of light I hold Jeans elbow to navigate to the carpark. She drives home I have my eyes shut. We have been through it and its been exhausting but we through it.
Relief juice now changed to celebration juice.

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