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Good News Story : Sight Returned

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    Good News Story : Sight Returned

    A man who was blinded in one eye during the Blitz has had his sight restored by Scottish specialists, 66 years later.

    Story Here

    A nice, positive story that makes you realise how wonderful medical science is. Sure, it's not perfect, but the techniques and technology improve all the time.
    Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

    C.S. Lewis

    #2
    Originally posted by zeitghost
    We don't come on this board to read Good News!
    All he's had done is the equivalent of a cateract op, which is something a fair proportion of us will end up having done as we get older and older. But for the incompetance on the part of his optometrist, he would have had this op done decades ago. Is that better?

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      #3
      miserable barstewards....think positive for a change !
      Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

      C.S. Lewis

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        #4
        Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
        All he's had done is the equivalent of a cateract op, which is something a fair proportion of us will end up having done as we get older and older. But for the incompetance on the part of his optometrist, he would have had this op done decades ago. Is that better?
        They would only consider treatment for him once he was going to lose sight in both eyes... Bloody NICE states that it's only worthwhile doing one eye when both are on the blink!

        Edit: Pun not intended! Har har
        It's about time I changed this sig...

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          #5
          The only reason that he had the OP at his age was that they discovered that he was going blind in his non-affected eye.

          This is a case of his GP accepting the original diagnosis I suspect and not bothering to check him over regularly.
          It's Deja-vu all over again!

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            #6
            Just to keep people miserable:
            http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008...d=networkfront

            http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...SS&attr=797084
            "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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              #7

              Just a note about Timesonline - I've ntoiced that Jeremy Clarkson hasn't had a column included since mid-march
              It's Deja-vu all over again!

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                #8
                Originally posted by KathyWoolfe View Post
                Just a note about Timesonline - I've ntoiced that Jeremy Clarkson hasn't had a column included since mid-march
                You've fallen into good news mode again.
                Feist - 1234. One camera, one take, no editing. Superb. How they did it
                Feist - I Feel It All
                Feist - The Bad In Each Other (Later With Jools Holland)

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                  #9
                  Mods !

                  This was supposed to be a nice, feel good, story to cheer people up.

                  The miserable brigade have hijacked it to spread doom and gloom !

                  Can the originators of a thread have editorial control please of their thread, so they can remove unsuitable replies ?

                  please please please ?
                  Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

                  C.S. Lewis

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by zeitghost
                    Much.

                    My dad recently had a cateract done, on his "best" eye for unknown reasons & he couldn't see much out of it for weeks...

                    As to why they did the "best" one & not the other is a mistery: Why did you do his best eye then Mr EyeSurgeonPerson ?



                    Informed consent at its best.

                    They may have done the dominant eye, since I think there's more brain wiring for the dominant eye than the other.

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