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| Re: Motorcycle Mama [message #6363 is a reply to message #6360 ] |
Fri, 28 November 2008 20:16   |
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Whoa! Awesome!
LOVE the photos. That's so cool! Thank you, Robin's friend, for sending the photos.
The hard contacts thing sounds familiar. My mom had contacts then too, and tells a story about when she lost one in collage. She didn't want to wear just one, because I think you can imagine how disorienting *that* is, but she sat at the back of the lecture hall and needed to see! (I get my terrible eyesight from her. Gee thanks, Mom. I don't think she was anywhere close to legally blind then, but...it wasn't far off.)
But the contacts *did* change your eye, because for the couple weeks she was waiting on the replacement to come in and wasn't wearing *any* contacts, she could see the front of the lecture hall just fine. It didn't stay, of course, so it's a good thing the new one finally came in, but...
I complained about modern contacts not doing that. She said something about scar tissue, but seriously, I'm thinking about being able to see the alarm clock that's a foot away from my head when I wake up. 
Smooshes!
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| Re: Motorcycle Mama [message #6368 is a reply to message #6360 ] |
Fri, 28 November 2008 21:07 |
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 Black Bear
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Hard contacts were wretched, and no two ways about it. After demonstrating an amazing ability to lose/break my glasses at school for the first two years I had them, my mother thought that perhaps contacts might be the answer. So 6th grade marked a very, VERY brief experience with hard lenses which did Not Go Well, and then it was back to the original plan. (I might add that while I'm a girl, I'm neither fair skinned nor living in Washington DC, and at age 12 I was not on the Pill, and I never adjusted. What a load of tripe. ) So I struggled on through middle school, and finally discovered soft contacts right about as my parents were ready to murder me for yet another pair of ruined glasses. (I think I sat on them during softball practice, that time.)
Maybe tomorrow I’ll tell you about my first motorcycle accident.
Danger! Excitement! Yes please!
"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.
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| Re: Motorcycle Mama [message #6374 is a reply to message #6360 ] |
Fri, 28 November 2008 22:24 |
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I used to wear contacts--wore them for years, first hard lenses then soft--and I would still be wearing them but I scratched my right eye and gave myself a chronic corneal abrasion. I don't even know how it happened, I woke up that way. Hmmm. Maybe this should go on the Klutzim thread...
So now I have three pairs of glasses. My everyday ones, sunglasses, and reading glasses, all prescription. My goal is to get another pair for dress-up.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Motorcycle Mama [message #6376 is a reply to message #6360 ] |
Fri, 28 November 2008 22:30 |
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Here's a place you can get cool glasses, but you pay for what you get.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Motorcycle Mama [message #6384 is a reply to message #6360 ] |
Sat, 29 November 2008 02:26 |
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Diane in MN
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Robin, I hope you're feeling much better by the time you see this, and also hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. I give Robin SERIOUS applause for blogging through it all and also deep sympathy, because the salmonella fairy came to our house Monday night--I wouldn't have wished it on the dogs, but in any case my husband and I were the victims--and my computer saw me not until this morning. Needless to say, I was not real enthused about cooking (or eating) Thanksgiving dinner, which turned out to be a sorry example of the same. No butternut squash. No killer potatoes. No pumpkin pie. The turkey was unsatisfactory, too, so I really owe my husband a decent fancy dinner. I'm glad your duck and claret were wonderful and you were feeling well enough to enjoy them.
I have to say that I consumed so few calories this Thanksgiving that I am going into Christmas with a net holiday fat deficit, and assuming no further digestive misfortunes can contemplate blueberry buckle, enchiladas suiza, apricot pie with homemade ice cream, and pumpkin something with less concern about how my pants will fit in January. This is looking on the bright side.
I hope too that Peter likes his new carpeting as much as you like your new necklace.
I always liked Arlo's Motorcycle Song, despite never being a motorcycle person. You look good in the bike pics, kiddo. Ah, youth . . .
May the virus symptoms recede and the ME drop back into its hole so you can get back to bell-ringing, hellhound-hurtling, and gratifying Connie with attention and treats.
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Motorcycle Mama [message #6385 is a reply to message #6360 ] |
Sat, 29 November 2008 04:09 |
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I fell off a horse when I was 11 and had to have brain surgery. I'll show you mine if you show me yours
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| Re: Motorcycle Mama [message #6386 is a reply to message #6360 ] |
Sat, 29 November 2008 04:36 |
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Robin what lovely photos - you're looking good
Hard lenses! pah! - I tried hard contacts at college... and was given a similar list of reasons why the dratted things didn't work; I kept trying until I scarred my cornea, at which point I gave up and went back to glasses.
Glasses which have been trodden on by me, trodden on by horses, lost in horse fields and on show grounds (especially over jumps), split in half by a hockey ball in the face, chewed by dogs, and most recently my current pair fell off the side table and were slept on by a dog, causing both lenses to pop out... Does this count for klutzim dogs?
And your scars are safe from me  - I have few scars so cannot swap in 'show and tell'. My worst injuries seem to be scarless so far, for example, no scar after being in a coma following a fall from a friend's pony when we swapped, age 11... apparently my first words on waking up were "How soon can I ride again?". (11 must be a risky riding age, blue rose?)
Lots and lots of good health wishes; may the ME vanish taking any remaining lurgy with it
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: Motorcycle Mama [message #6390 is a reply to message #6360 ] |
Sat, 29 November 2008 06:06 |
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L.R.K.
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I was resisting joining in on the glasses/contacts/eyesight thing, because I could babble on for ever, with no point in view, one thing leading to another...
However, I thought if I really reined myself in tightly, and allowed myself no digressions (wail), I could try sharing one anecdote.
For a period in time - what could I have been 9-10 maybe? (I have very little perception of time, but I know which school I went to) - I wore contacts. They were soft and my mother used to boil them to clean them. Once (at least) she burned them. And it stank so (a nasty, azbesto-type smell), that - well - I threw up (I do that very easily - if I feel nauseous...). My mother thought I was ill, and said I could stay home from school the next day. I certainly did not enlighten her as to her error...
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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| Re: Motorcycle Mama [message #6393 is a reply to message #6384 ] |
Sat, 29 November 2008 06:33 |
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| Diane in MN wrote on Sat, 29 November 2008 07:26 |
I give Robin SERIOUS applause for blogging through it all and also deep sympathy, because the salmonella fairy came to our house Monday night--I wouldn't have wished it on the dogs, but in any case my husband and I were the victims
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Oh, Diane, that's horrible. I hope you're both feeling a lot better now? As you say, at least you've got a few calories in hand for the next month but sheesh, a horrible way to achieve that. Maybe you could do as people did before we started taking clean water for granted, and drink 'small beer' or its equivalent for a while, so that the alcohol kills any remaining bugs in what one consumes...?
"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."
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| Re: Motorcycle Mama [message #6396 is a reply to message #6360 ] |
Sat, 29 November 2008 10:02 |
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Susan from Athens
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What fabulous pictures. And wow, you look a mature 20 - very much the motorcycle Mama rather than the biker chick. And how wonderful to have a friend from the past rediscover you through the internet! Isn't it a pain when you get something that is supposed to help you, like contact lenses, and it creates problems and the people who sold it you insist it is all your fault! ***tearing hair out***
I hope the flu is clearing up and the ME kept at bay. And yes please for some stories of your motorcycle accidents (I assume it's plural given that you talk of your first) - a small dose of horror and adventure to liven up our drab lives
Diane, I hope you're better now and enjoy your bonus calories over Christmas. Laura also was having problems last week or so (my sense of time is fairly bad too). All these people with glasses problems. Is this the time to mention that I'm on my fourth pair in thirty-odd years? I take good care of my things, if not of myself!
I just got back from an international bazaar, where I filled up on an amazing array of goodies. The bazaar is held every year before Christmas, and they support underprivileged children in one of our slums. The charity provides schooling and clothing and meals and a day-care centre for children of working mothers (One of our clients is on the board of directors - so I know the money goes where it's supposed to go).
A mass of embassies from various countries create stall with gifts from their countries but they also cook local specialties, so we had lentil and spring onion balls from Turkey, mint tea from Morocco, meat-stuffed bulgur shells from Cyprus, empanadas from Colombia, nori and wasabi crisps from Japan, almond cake from Croatia and came back replete and depleted with extra goodies to tide us over the week to come. And now back to work!
“I have always imagined heaven to be a kind of library.” –Jorge Luis Borges
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| Re: Motorcycle Mama [message #6400 is a reply to message #6396 ] |
Sat, 29 November 2008 11:18 |
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Whoa! You look great.
I've only hung on to the back of motorcycles. Does that make me a piggy back biker chick?
After 15 years in glasses or soft contacts the contacts stopped working, I had lasik surgery. For the last five years I've been enjoying in focus vision. On the down side my eyes are changing again, so now I have to wear glasses to drive at night.
Diane, sorry to hear that you've been under the weather, hope it continues to improve.
Robin, May your cold improve and the ME stay away.
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| Re: Motorcycle Mama [message #6401 is a reply to message #6360 ] |
Sat, 29 November 2008 12:30 |
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So sorry about the salmonella, Diane! I had a case in Ireland, when I was in the Burren, and for a while things looked dire. But there's a little resort town there that had a real doctor, and he packed me away into a B&B, gave me meds, and had them (the B&B) feed me on tea and toast for the first couple of days. I was weak for the rest of the trip! Salmonella is a terrible thing.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Motorcycle Mama [message #6472 is a reply to message #6360 ] |
Sun, 30 November 2008 17:30 |
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you should have seen my husband after he came out of the hospital after his heart attack, he looked like they used him for a pin cushion.there is one nurse that he calls harpoon lady when he goes for blood tests because she always leaves bruises the size of quarters.you have my deepest sympathies.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: Motorcycle Mama [message #6508 is a reply to message #6360 ] |
Sun, 30 November 2008 23:58 |
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I bruise so easily I have been worked up for leukemia. Fortunately the test was negative. And now I'm getting these little purple/maroon marks on my forearms, and nobody knows what they are. The Dermotologist started to say that they were just broken capillaries and that "sometimes women your age" but I gave him the evil eye and he never finished the sentence. So apparently these marks are not going to kill me, but I sure hate the way they look. And yes, I'd love some steak with my whine.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Motorcycle Mama [message #6521 is a reply to message #6360 ] |
Mon, 01 December 2008 07:18 |
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certain medications you take thin your blood and then you get the purpley marks.my husband gets them some times and because your blood is thinned you bruise easily.my boss bruises if you look at her the wrong way coarse at 87,she take a few medications and if she bumps something she bruises.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: Motorcycle Mama [message #6537 is a reply to message #6360 ] |
Mon, 01 December 2008 14:53 |
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I ws on a blood thinner in the spring, but had no problems then, and I quit taking them in June. And none of my other meds have changed. Maybe I am just getting old... nah. I'll just have a rousing game of Connect the Dot!
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Motorcycle Mama [message #6541 is a reply to message #6360 ] |
Mon, 01 December 2008 15:04 |
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blood thinners will do it and they stay in your system for a while.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: Motorcycle Mama [message #6544 is a reply to message #6360 ] |
Mon, 01 December 2008 15:12 |
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Hmmmm... I hope that's all it is. That would be great.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Motorcycle Mama [message #6649 is a reply to message #6374 ] |
Tue, 02 December 2008 09:30 |
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Mrs Redboots
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| ssshunt wrote on Sat, 29 November 2008 03:24 |
So now I have three pairs of glasses. My everyday ones, sunglasses, and reading glasses, all prescription. My goal is to get another pair for dress-up.
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I have a 3-in-one pair - bifocals with the Transitions lenses that darken when you go out of doors.
Like so many of us, I struggled with hard contact lenses back in the 1970s, and gave up. Back then, they didn't really fix astigmatism, either, which is what is wrong with my eyes. And I didn't go back to them until some years after I took up skating, and I now wear them for skating. And parties. But I don't see quite as well through them as I do through my glasses, and I need reading glasses and sunglasses, so mostly I wear my good old specs to save faffing about.
(Have been away for a few days competing in France, hence my silence; Robin, I do hope you feel better now. I have an all-encompassing earache right now, which is Not Funny).
Mrs Redboots
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| Re: Motorcycle Mama [message #6656 is a reply to message #6435 ] |
Tue, 02 December 2008 12:10 |
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shalea
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| b_twin_1 wrote on Sun, 30 November 2008 05:12 |
| librarykat wrote on Sat, 29 November 2008 21:03 |
I don't know, I bruise so easily that I'd much rather not show the bruise. I get bruises and have no freaking idea how I got them. I bruise every time I have to have blood drawn for tests (every 4 months, phooey); one bad day, the tech couldn't find a good vein and poked me several times on each arm. I ended up with bruises, great big ugly things, on both arms. And it was summer, so covering up with long sleeves was misery.
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Oh dear.  I'm willing to share. How about I give you a non-showing bruise in exchange for a showing one? Usually the bruises I do get I have no idea how. I suspect they happen in the "heat of the moment" and the endorphins are keeping the pain level down! (which doesn't help later.)
(And I've had the "find the vein" massive bruise too. ugh. My sympathies.)
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Much sympathy on the "find the vein" bruises -- I had to have an IV once, and the nurse was convinced she could plug it into the back of my hand. The backs of both of my hands were purple for a week.
Most sadly of all, however, the cure was NOT worse than the disease.
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| Re: Motorcycle Mama [message #6689 is a reply to message #6360 ] |
Tue, 02 December 2008 19:35 |
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Yeah, I'm a "hard stick" too.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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, yes, they still call it the pill.as my oldest daughter turned 14 today, i feel a talk about precaution coming and also the girls in my husbands family have trouble with major cramping and the pill seems to be the only thing that helps.
