Things looking Up??

The BEST Medicine?

They say that laughter is the best medicine, and I couldn't agree more. But the second best medicine just has to be a nice little holiday!

Have just come back from my mums in Cornwall, and had a great time with the kids, played on the beach, went out and visited the Eden Project, which is well worth a visit for anyone down that neck of the woods.

The kids loved it, especially the Tropical Dome, where Adam had to take off his shire and Chloe's face-painted face smudged and melted to change from a beautiful pussycat to a beautiful mess.

Here are a couple of the flowers from the Tropics

More good news followed when I learned my Uncle has just aquired a property in Florida, so it looks like the kids and I will be off to Disney next year Wahoooooooo!

But when I got back home I did have a bit of a worry, I had a letter from the Letting Agent saying I was two months in arrears on the flat and the landlord wanted me out! Luckily the agent had made a mistake in the letter and was VERY apologetic.

Can't wait for tonight as it will be the first kipping on a memory foam mattress, now it arrived at around 9:15 this morning, rolled up like a rug, didn't look very thick at all, in fact it was more like a sleeping bag. But then after unwrapping it it began to expand, now it is proper thick and very squashy, feels pretty comfy, but we shall see.

OK so happy days are here again, next time I hope to put up a review of Coroline in 3D, and of Hannah Montanna the movie, which I saw with the kids.

How Quick??!!

That is a National Health Service!

Well, having only written about my daughters operation a couple of weeks ago, I have to write now that she had the operation on Wednesday 18th February.
I also know the operation - a Derotational Osteotomy.
Basically Chloe had her leg broken at the top of her fema, and then a metal plate inserted with 6 screws holding it in place. All this for an 8 year old! She was OK, but as soon as I saw her lying in the recovery room, I was blubbing.

She was however, not in a cast. But after the pain killers wore off that night (my wife stayed with her, and only got two hours kip) they put a hip-spike cast on her.
The hip-spike cast has however totally restricted her movement. She left hospital via ambulance for home on Saturday, without the Physio and the Occupational Health visitor knowing. So they arranged transport for her to go to hospital today, and I went to collect the reclining wheelchair, camode and ramp. When I got there they told me the Physio etc were going to my wifes house to take the wheelchair etc to hers and Chloe's appointment had been changed to tommorrow. BAD mark for NHS.

True to their word they turned up bang on time with all the bits and pieces and let us know everything we had to do and how to do them. GOOD mark for NHS.

I feel a lot happier now, knowing that Chloe is on the mend, even though she can't go to school for 4 weeks at least, I know she is at least able to get about instead of lying about for ages.

Update

A week on....

....and my eyes are still seeing lovely!
Went for my weekly check-up on Saturday, and was told by the optician that I must be an extremely fast healer, as she had to recheck my documents to see if I had had the procedure stated.
The Lasik, involves cutting a flap in the cornea, the Lasek doesn't. My 'flap' was hardly visible, hence the reason for the recheck of paperwork.

I even treated myself to a decent pair of sunglasses. Too late maybe for this year but not for next.

No Words to describe

Better than 20 - 20!

Well it is over! On Friday at 16:15 I went in for my Laser surgery on my eyes, and by 16:30 I was sitting in the waiting room with a cup of coffee waiting for my mate to pick me up. With no pain and no discomfort noticeable at all!!

Optical Express have looked after me really well, if you want to check them out, click on the link here Optical Express remember they are worldwide!

So how about the operation itself, well here we go with all the details;

I was called in by the surgern, and he told me his name before describing the procedure, he then explained and demonstrated certain noises I would be hearing. On then to the 'Op' chair. A bit like a dentists chair but your lying down. I then had to look at a blinking red light whilst one eye was covered and the other (the one to be operated on) had anaesthetic drops put in. The surgen then clamped open my eye with a couple of weights (well that is all they felt like, and it was really, really not in the slightest bit uncomfortable. He then said I will feel slight pressure on the eye (a bit like pushing your thumb against your eyelid), and I wont see anything for a few seconds. Which I didn't! and this bit was the most uncomfortable of all - on a scale of 1 to 10, I would give it a 1/2 seriously hardly uncomfortable at all.

Next up he put in like a cone device, and then a 'frosted window', all of which I could see (It's a bit like having a glass plate in front of your eyes and someone wiping things on the glass - totally weird!) . Next up the clicking of the laser, and in my opinion the worst bit, no there was no pain, it was just this smell of burning.

And after a quick wipe the job was done, and onto the next eye. The whole procedure took less than 5 minutes per eye, it was probably closer to 3. I then went back into the waiting room, and despite a bit of blurryness could see LOVELY!

When my mate picked me up half an hour later I was able to read number plates on cars at a greater distance than him, also the blurryness had gone. Of course prior to that I had been given my eye drops and the coolest pair of goggles (NOT!!!!!) to wear at night to protect the eyes. For the goggles think 'Charlie and the Choclate factory" Mike TV room. Honest!

And so today, the day after. Well I drove myself the 40 miles to the clinic to have the eyes checked for infection and to check the sight. No infections problems or anything else, and the best bit, the optition wanted me to read a certain line, but I could read two line below. She then told me the line she wanted me to read was for 20 - 20 vision. So happily my eyes are now better than 20 - 20 GET IN THERE!!!!!

OK I will update again when I have had about a week to recover, cheers for now, oh how does that song go......

..... Bom Bapa Bommm Bapa I can see clearly now the rain has gone, I can see all obstacles in my way, gone are the dark clouds that had me down, it's gonna be a bright, bright, bright sunshiny daaayyyyy!