Wait and See

Mum had an early eye appointment. Since Father was ill, I drove Mum to, yep, you guessed it ... hospital. The office is in a building attached to hospital, so we had to return to hospital again this year. Yeah -- plecht!

The wait was very long between sessions. On the lighter side, all the personnel there were extremely friendly, courteous and kind. After the 3 some hour session with tests to determine degree and accuracy of diagnosis:
macular degeneration, background diabetic retinopathy, macular pucker (verified by two separate doctors in different buildings). The tests were fairly quick and simple. The Opthomologist's office is to call a week from now with results.

Since I was with Mum, I was allowed to sit with her. We got to see "required" info-videos on the procedures for the situation including one test they used today, fluorescein angiography, which involved injecting redish dye. Thankfully they found a vein in Mum's arm that was fairly easy, they shot the dye and they took pictures.

The office used 35 mm cameras on the end of a huge-scope machine. According to the nurse, the dgital cameras presently don't have the resolution that the doctors want and the digital unit that could be bought costs $20,000. This then leaves the staff there to develop the film on site, what a drag -- in a dark room in the office.

Anyway, the results will be in around a week and Mum will know then.

This hospital has valet parking, which is supposed to be a convenience, but they were always in my way. I didn't use them and getting up to emergency and main lobby entrance was backed up. After Mum was in car, it took some time to exit. Valet parking -- wasted here.