Thread: Embarrassment

G'day All,

I am back home in Bundaberg after a trip to see the contact lens specialist in Brisbane yesterday.

I had an extra appointment that involved wearing a set of trial lenses and wearing them around the city centre for an hour. I then had my eyes tuned to get the correction established so I can see properly. I was then taught how to insert and remove the new style of lenses. My old lenses only fit over the coloured part of my eyes. The new lenses are much bigger and close to the size of a domed 10 cent coin. Get a 10 cent coin in a mold and then clobber it with the ball of a ball pein hammer and you will have a close facsimile of what the new contact lenses will be like

The benefit of the new lenses is that they are supposed to be dust proof and I can go swimming in them. With the old lenses if a speck of dust blew into my eye it would make a beeline for the contact lens and then lodge between the Rigid Gas Permeable or hard contact lens and bit of grit would start cutting into my eye. A speck the size of a pin hole would find me trying to claw the contact lens out and hurt like hell. It also meant that 15 years ago I had to leave my chosen vocation of horticulture because avoiding dust and dirt is pretty hard in the work environment of parks & gardens and landscaping.

It was windy in Brisbane's CBD yesterday and with the trial lenses I could look into the wind and not worry about a speck of dust blinding me.

The other good thing was that I found out that I could get the contact lenses posted to me - so one less trip to Brisbane.

The extra time around the hour trial and the how to wear lessons pretty much chewed up the free time I had in the afternoon. Leeann and I got to see - squint with our daughter for lunch and when I found out I had the hour extra time at the specialist Leeann caught a train so she could see our son before we had to catch the train from Brisbane.

We broke the trip home up by getting off at Nambour and spent some time with Leeann's brother and his family.

So it was a worthwhile trip and I got to try out the new lenses that I was told should last between six and eight years.

Once the lenses arrive I have to wear them for six weeks then I will be back to Brisbane to make sure that the lenses and my eyes are compatible. During these six weeks I will have to build up from wearing the lenses for the first time from half an hour to being able to wear them for the whole day.

There you go. One step closer to being sighted again

Kind Regards
Lionel

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

G'day All,

I am back home in Bundaberg after a trip to see the contact lens specialist in Brisbane yesterday.

I had an extra appointment that involved wearing a set of trial lenses and wearing them around the city centre for an hour. I then had my eyes tuned to get the correction established so I can see properly. I was then taught how to insert and remove the new style of lenses. My old lenses only fit over the coloured part of my eyes. The new lenses are much bigger and close to the size of a domed 10 cent coin. Get a 10 cent coin in a mold and then clobber it with the ball of a ball pein hammer and you will have a close facsimile of what the new contact lenses will be like

The benefit of the new lenses is that they are supposed to be dust proof and I can go swimming in them. With the old lenses if a speck of dust blew into my eye it would make a beeline for the contact lens and then lodge between the Rigid Gas Permeable or hard contact lens and bit of grit would start cutting into my eye. A speck the size of a pin hole would find me trying to claw the contact lens out and hurt like hell. It also meant that 15 years ago I had to leave my chosen vocation of horticulture because avoiding dust and dirt is pretty hard in the work environment of parks & gardens and landscaping.

It was windy in Brisbane's CBD yesterday and with the trial lenses I could look into the wind and not worry about a speck of dust blinding me.

The other good thing was that I found out that I could get the contact lenses posted to me - so one less trip to Brisbane.

The extra time around the hour trial and the how to wear lessons pretty much chewed up the free time I had in the afternoon. Leeann and I got to see - squint with our daughter for lunch and when I found out I had the hour extra time at the specialist Leeann caught a train so she could see our son before we had to catch the train from Brisbane.

We broke the trip home up by getting off at Nambour and spent some time with Leeann's brother and his family.

So it was a worthwhile trip and I got to try out the new lenses that I was told should last between six and eight years.

Once the lenses arrive I have to wear them for six weeks then I will be back to Brisbane to make sure that the lenses and my eyes are compatible. During these six weeks I will have to build up from wearing the lenses for the first time from half an hour to being able to wear them for the whole day.

There you go. One step closer to being sighted again

Kind Regards
Lionel

I can clearly now the lenses are coming.

Terrific news Lionel

Originally Posted by The ho har's

Terrific news Lionel

G'day the Ho Hars,

Thank you for the best wishes, one step closer - not quite there yet though. Yesterday provided the last piece of the complex puzzle before I can start the official process to gain approval for the cash to pay for the lenses. It may be 4 -6 weeks between my lodging the forms and the powers that be providing funding approval. Nothing guaranteed however I think I can present a convincing case. Then when the approval comes - cross fingers, it will take a week for the lenses to be made. They then go from the manufacturer to my specialist and the lenses get checked. Then they get posted out to me from Brisbane so probably two weeks after the order is placed I will begin the process of building up wearing the new lenses each day. From half and hour to 12 hours over a number of weeks.

Yes Banjo it was good to see almost properly again even if was for just one hour.

I had an email waiting for me at home from one of the jobs I applied for asking me for what was my first preference for working for the company. I know this means absolutely nothing however it does show they are expressing some interest in me

Gee once the lenses have arrived I will have to hit the ground running as my PhD ground to a halt on the 28th of April.

Kind Regards
Lionel

Lionel, I am glad things are improving mate. Good luck and keep at it!!!

Lionel,

Forwards from here on then

Hope the best for you

Well been pulling the sheds apart today. I've moved all benches to the outside walls now ..I've started to pull the centre wall out so I can have more room. Since it's 2 sheds joined I'm going to have to brace it at one end as the other end still has a sheet left in each shed. So there's a small wall between the benches. Has opened up the shed tho so I have more room to move. I just want to get all this body work done & paint it all. Then have to find somewhere to store it all.

Originally Posted by banjo

Then have to find somewhere to store it all.

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Told you before, we would be really good neighbours for each other

Mrs hh