No My Left Eye Has Blooperitis

[897tgigvib]

Some of y'all remember in the past my eyes have a very rare autoimmune disease called Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis. Now, if I woulda said those 3 words when I was a little kid I'd sure be hoping the soap in the bathroom was Ivory cuz I'd sure get a thorough mouthwashing for saying such unknown vile words.

Wellp, my left eye started hurting the other day, and being the start of a weekend of campers to take care of I held out to today. Went to the VA doc in Ukiah and this time he sent me to a local Opthamologist who told me I have

BLOOPERITITIS

Not kidding. Not as rare nor not usually as bad as PUK, but my poor eyes went from PUK to BLOOPER.

I suppose I might have something misspelled. So now I have some oily goop from a tube to put in my left eye 3 times a day and go see the Opthamologist again in a few days. By the way, my regular VA doc is an ole time surfer who cruises the beach towns on his Harley on weekends. Before he sent me to the Opthamologist he called my left eye GNARLY before stepping out for the next patient. The Physicians Assistant was left looking at my eye trying to look for a Gnarly. I had to 'splain to him, Gnarly's an ole surfer term for a really ripped wave for experts only to attempt, and that it's come to mean things like awesome or epic. Ya see, my left eyeball is all reddened...


...and NO BobM, it is not red from any green leafy substances known to be grown near here. I did not get any good answer for what causes BLOOPERITITIS. I watched a wizard of oz bloopers thing on youtube last week. Can that be it? (The cameraman's shadow shows on the nest of baby munchkins, Judy Garland suddenly switched between practice dance shoes and ruby slippers in one scene.

No, I really have blooperititis. The PUK is still under decent control. Hopefully this blooper thing'll be done in a week.

 

[NwMtGardener]

Man, marshall, you've had a tough summer at least your beans are doing well!

 

[digitS']

Marshall, you are going down in history - even as you rise above this malady :/!

Do a google search for BLOOPERITITIS. There is only one reference that I found.

Now, we must all be sure to use this word on other sites: ask the seed company if their product has been treated for BLOOPERITITIS. Comment on a news story about statistics and claim that the researchers are known to have suffered BLOOPERITITIS and should be peer reviewed! Everywhere & everyplace while the google bot and every other bot in botville, are recording for all history the origin of this term.

Steve

 

[canesisters]

Aw man, that's tough. See what you get for watching TV? And a blooper show at that!
Hope if feels better very soon!

 

[897tgigvib]

When I go back to the doc in a few days I'll ask him how it's spelled. The Opthamologist's assistant, a pretty faced gal named Christina, pronounced it Boopleritis, but all the others pronounced it Blooperitis or Blooperititis.

When ya have stuff wrong with your cornea, and the only way to see it is with all kinds of gadgets, it really is amazing how many docs and assistants want to use the gadget to see it! Then when they see it they all make some scary sounding expletive...

Gnarly
Oooo, ug
Oh!
Did you drive here? (The other eye is fine)

My favorite aunt, Eleanor, went through life on one eye. She survived Scarlet Fever as an infant. The fever "burned out" one of her eyes. Digit, she's the one for the record books. Back during the Scarlet Fever epidemic almost 100 years ago, nearly 100% of all children who got it died. Story goes that when my grandmother called the town doc to come over for to check the sick baby, the doc said for her to prepare for the inevitable, that the baby would die. NOT MY GRANDMOTHER! Nope. She had the house cleared and bleached, constantly used wet cold cloths changed on the baby, fought that fever non stop. Did not let the baby choke. Amazing how much aunt Eleanor looked like the old photos of my grandmother. My oldest sister's daughter looks the same too. I look in the mirror shaving. Thick skin, wrinkles growing deep. Mom used to say her mother's nickname was wrinkles. Comes from being part Neanderthal.

Gotta say, that oily goop prescription makes the eye hurt much less. You oughta see some of the typos I'm fixing!

 

[Ridgerunner]

Blepharitis?

I looked Marshalls spelling up too and found nothing. But I occasionally have very mild Blepharitis. My eye doctor told me to use Johnsons baby shampoo to wash my eye lashes, I guess to keep from burning the eyes.

 

[897tgigvib]

I'll try that spelling Ridge, and google it...between how hard of hearing I am, the multiple ringings of tinnitus my ears have, (which I can "tune up" sometimes), and the way all the docs and assistants talk, it may well be a misspelling...

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Not sure Ridge. It is the cornea they looked at, but it did affect the eyelid because the tear gland put out a lot of autoimmune stuff. It's not the normal eye problem that's sure. All that lymph stuff makes stuff that turns into something like crystals that rub and scrape the cornea. But they said this time it's not the PUK. Not sure if even these docs know. I'll have to ask if they sent the chart to that specialist in England. I'm the 7th known case of PUK. I'm sure there have been lots of others who never got diagnosed right. I think actually the direct problem right now is BUP...something.


Like an old car...fix the motor so it goes faster, next thing ya know ya have to fix the brakes so it stops better...

 

[bj taylor]

marshall I admire you so much. you have tough times, yet you can make humor out of difficult times. that's real strength.
I think ridge is right about the spelling. it's kinda a catch all phrase that includes inflammation/infection in the eye lid. I bet the treatment is the same as for puk. hope your eye clears quickly & pain is gone.

 

[digitS']

I wash my eyes every morning with Johnson & Johnson.

Wash my face in the shower with the same stuff. That is, unless I'm shampooing everything above the jaw line.

I can buy it at a store right off the shelf with the diaper rash treatment without batting an eye! Yep. An attractive blonde that I worked with at the greenhouse shampooed her hair every morning. I told her if I was to do that my hair would stand out from my head like a dandelion plume. She said, "Just use baby shampoo!"

Except, I shampoo my hair at night . . . by morning, I still look like a dandelion plume . . . yeah, I just wear a hat.

Steve

 

[897tgigvib]

One thing I actually thanked my parents for before they died was for good hair genes. It's great for everything except for growing long. If I grow it long it turns extremely curly at the ends and gets all matted in a way, well, can't think of any famous person with hair that does this. So even though I'm a more liberal than anyone hippy, I have to keep it short, like it is right now. Saves on big gobs of shampoo is the silver lining I guess. Just a little dab gets it. I use that frenchy sounding tresseme' and mix it with generic head and shoulders. It's my blue fawn abyssinian who could use a good shampoo and haircut because of his old fashioned aby guard fur hairs on his back and sides that he can't get to to self groom. Wall, since I don't have the 200 clams to take him to the vet for a groom job, I exceedingly carfully trim the knots out.

Yea, I guess it is that blepharitis thing. Maybe the e they pronounce u and the ph just p. That goop they prescribed is one of the same medications they initially used for the puk. It seems to soothe pain right down to a dullness pain instead of a hollering at me youch pain.

There's nothing to admire bj. I just gotsta keep on a chugging along. I'm like old car. Beginning to nickel and dime me but still fixable, lol!

Oh! Maybe that professor guy on the back to the future movies got hair that kinked out when long. But mine does it more.

Be back in a bit. The boys are wrasslin around like a couple a mules in a tin barn...