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Title: Double Vision
Post by: PonoBill on March 13, 2017, 10:21:59 AM
Got the MRI results this morning--nada. No tumor, no lesions, no sign of infection. The doc thinks it will clear on it own, but what a pain in the ass. Nice that it's nothing malignant, though.  So I got that going for me.

Probably going to curtail my car racing this year--vision has to excellent for that to work. So I'm reshuffling my shop priorities. I'm going to finish cleaning up, find someplace to store Peyote out the way (probably just stick it in the trailer) and get to work on the Geezer Foil II and the electric TR3.

The problem is with the sixth cranial nerve, either viral or vascular since there's no sign of infection or lesion.  Naturally I've been reading up on the little bugger. It's surprisingly vulnerable, makes kind of a tight 90 degree turn before it passes through the skull, potentially making it more sensitive to swelling than the other ocular nerve.

I'll go see a few other docs and see if there's some treatment that makes sense. In the meantime I'm walking around like the old Hathaway Shirt man--or at least the "might be homeless" version of that elegant dude.

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Someone needs to tell this guy that his tie is too short. He probably can't see it.

Title: Re: Double Vision
Post by: Weasels wake on March 13, 2017, 10:54:01 AM
Scotch.  ;)
Title: Re: Double Vision
Post by: stoneaxe on March 13, 2017, 12:45:02 PM
Glad to hear the results were negative. Left over inflammation from the virus? All the spots where nerves go inside the head are vulnerable, some more than others but any inflammation in those tight spots and it causes problems. My tumor was actually pretty small but it was in just the wrong spot...a little deeper in and it may never have caused problems or been found.

Scotch would be good but no tumor found sounds like a Poor Small Boy moment to me.... ;). I don't know what I'm going to do for those moments when the last of my bottle is gone.....lasts a long time when you only take a taste.

Title: Re: Double Vision
Post by: PonoBill on March 13, 2017, 12:57:47 PM

What's with the "poor" business. PSB stands for Professional Small Boy. I uncorked the sixth-to-last bottle last night. Amazing as always. I do think some scotch is in order though. Or maybe some champagne. there's a bottle of Analemma champagne in the refrigerator. It's not Pol Roget Winston Churchill, but for a local winery, it's spectacular.

Bob, you might remember my housemate Richard Fade from the days when I lived in Sam Karamanos' co-op house. Sadly both Sam and Charlie Hatchette==the other loony housemate--have passed on to that big ultralight airplane hanger in the sky--or maybe they're just dead. But Richard is still around and Analemma Winery is owned by his daughter Kris and her husband, Stephen. They make amazing wines and are delightful people. Richard done good.
Title: Re: Double Vision
Post by: pdxmike on March 13, 2017, 01:58:32 PM

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Someone needs to tell this guy that his tie is too short. He probably can't see it.
I'd guess his wife shrunk it leaving it in the dryer too long because she was enjoying her bath with Dove Soap too much.  Or maybe he had to cut off the end after he accidentally dipped it in his Schweppes.
Title: Re: Double Vision
Post by: stoneaxe on March 13, 2017, 02:19:02 PM

What's with the "poor" business. PSB stands for Professional Small Boy.

Brain fart.....I make at least one a day..... ;D
Title: Re: Double Vision
Post by: PonoBill on March 13, 2017, 02:31:19 PM
Or maybe he had to cut off the end after he accidentally dipped it in his Schweppes.

The schweppervescence would have dissolved it.
Title: Re: Double Vision
Post by: tautologies on March 13, 2017, 04:02:45 PM


Sorry to hear about the issues...but good it doesn't seem to be more severe...
Do you have a history with migraines?

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-2982.2008.01563.x

Title: Re: Double Vision
Post by: PonoBill on March 13, 2017, 04:30:48 PM
No, I've never had a migraine, rarely have headaches that aren't related to an excess of excessiveness.
Title: Re: Double Vision
Post by: tautologies on March 13, 2017, 04:49:32 PM
No, I've never had a migraine, rarely have headaches that aren't related to an excess of excessiveness.

They can be sneaky though. Not all migraines are accompanied with headaches. Blurred vision and narrowed peripheral vision can stand alone and still be a migraine.
https://medicorx.com/suddenly-blurred-patchy-vision/

Obviously, I have no idea of your condition...just glad they didn't find anything on the scan. 
Title: Re: Double Vision
Post by: Bean on March 15, 2017, 07:22:49 AM
The problem is with the sixth cranial nerve, either viral or vascular since there's no sign of infection or lesion. 
Any of your doc's suggest baby aspirin?

Funny story, my dad was in Norway on business when he realized he had not packed his baby aspirin.  At the local pharmacy, he found all kinds of aspirin but not in the baby dose.  When he asked the pharmacist, he politely explained that (in Norway) you need a prescription for baby aspirin.  So dad replies that's fine I'll get the regular kind and split them.  Sorry, I can't let you do that now that I know you are looking for baby aspirin, was the reply.  You can't make this shit up.
Title: Re: Double Vision
Post by: yugi on March 15, 2017, 07:58:43 AM
Norwegians can say things with a really straight face. Just unbeatable.
Title: Re: Double Vision
Post by: stoneaxe on March 15, 2017, 08:49:42 AM
Just had a thought....you might want to take it easy for awhile. This could be a symptom related to the phrase "if you don't stop it you'll go blind"....... ;)
Title: Re: Double Vision
Post by: PonoBill on March 15, 2017, 11:30:46 AM
Then I should keep going--just until one eye quits working. Then I could lose the patch.
Title: Re: Double Vision
Post by: SUPcheat on March 15, 2017, 02:39:20 PM
That's what you get for spending too much time on HCOSUPB.
Title: Re: Double Vision
Post by: surfcowboy on March 16, 2017, 12:56:31 AM
This thread makes me glad for many reasons. Number one of course is that none of my siblings is on here. ;)

Pono the viral thing is a bear. I think it's likely behind my vertigo, which has thankfully subsided in recent years. Congrats on the lack of serious issues and hang in there til you... regain focus?
Title: Re: Double Vision
Post by: PonoBill on March 16, 2017, 07:31:33 AM
He was here first, I gotta put up with him.  Not so bad, It's about the only place we talk.
Title: Re: Double Vision
Post by: TallDude on March 16, 2017, 07:50:04 AM
A few years ago, in one eye I would get blurred spot that flickered and move from center to peripheral and back. It came out of nowhere while I was driving and last about 15 minutes. It would freak me out. I had to close one eye to keep driving. One time I pulled over and waited it out. My optometrist called it an 'Ocular Migraine'. No headache associated with it. He said there is no pin point cause. They just seem to come and go. It hasn't happened lately. The body does some strange things. Your double vision is probably related to your 'Jonesing for surf' ailment.     
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