Thursday, October 21, 2010

Healing leg

I KNOW THESE aren't exactly my legs pictured, but mine are as clean as this woman's jeans are white and tight fitting.

The abscess on the right leg is going down nicely.
No longer does the calf look like a red bowling pin with an erupting volcano upon it. It looks mildly pink with a post-eruption Mount Saint Helens (minus flattened pine trees for miles around...)

I'm feeling much better in some ways. But of course I'm still depressed, so I'm really enjoying that. Drinking lots of hot cups of tea in front of morning television, dreading going outside and pigging out on Mr Kiplings mixed fruit selection cakes and vanilla ice cream...

I really miss not having internet at home (thank you, cable-nibbling goblin) and I miss y'all. Sorry to make everyone worry. (What's new.) I really am better...

... BUT I have a medical question. This is serious and real:

Does anybody know what it means if you have splitting migraine-style headaches for weeks on end, accompanied by severe double vision and one of your eyes becomes mis-aligned, so instead of looking directly at me, it's looking down and to the right. While the other eye functions as normal.

This isn't my problem, but a 65 year old friend of mine has it and I keep telling her to go to the doctor, not to waste her time at Opticians (the optician she did see deserves to be shot). As far as I know she STILL hasn't been to her doctor or to Moorfields Eye Hospital, which is quite easy to get too from here (remember I had to go a few months ago when I had a smut in my eye all night and all the next morning and it just would not wash out...)

I have tried not to mention things like "brain tumour", but I'm dead worried about her. And she's one of these people who the more she worries the LESS she's likely actually to go in and get it looked at (who does that remind you of?)

Answers please! I'm dead worried...

8 comments:

  1. I think the muscles weakening or detaching can cause the eye to drift. If I remember correctly - they can operate to tighten it up. She really should get it seen to - who wants headaches and double vision?

    Glad you are getting better. Can't you buy a new cable?

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  2. I fear a brain tumor or something, too, Gledds.

    Glad you leg is on the mend.

    Love,

    SB

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  3. Do u think your friend might have suffered a stroke?

    Good to hear you got your leg taken care of.

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  4. Good to hear your leg is healing Gleds.

    Re your friend I have only one thing to say - she needs to see a doctor. :(

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  5. Gleds your friend shouldn't put off seeing a doctor ... glad your leg(s) are healing. Stay warm, enjoy the mugs of tea and have a Mr Kipling every now and then ;)

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  6. sure she should go to the doctor...may be it's not serious, but she must check absolutely...
    and you, how are you my friend...i've been away for a long long time, time to help my husband who was so ill...he passed away in April...and now I try to learn how to live again...thanks for your visits my friend , they helped me !

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  7. Definitely a job for the professionals, forget the amateur diagnoses, send her straight to the eye hospital or even a regular hospital for a cat scan or MRI. So glad your leg is healing.

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  8. I agree that she needs to see a doctor and right away. It sounds fairly serious with the headaches.

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