November 1, 2012

• Getting Old

  Bill is having an eye problem that seems like a really big deal.  His retina detached and he has had a laser procedure twice now and it is still detached.  So he got a referral from his current specialist to an even more special specialist in Omaha.

  Eye surgeon waiting rooms are the most depressing place on Earth.  Everyone is 80s years old.  Seriously!  And there are so. many. walkers.  Canes, wheelchairs, scooters - just all kinds of mobility assistance.  And the patients are ugly.  Not old ugly.  (I'm not THAT shallow.)  Ugly ugly.  Given up on living ugly but for some reason still hanging in there ugly.  Baggy stained sweatshirts and dry, dry, dry grey skin.  We were the fucking prom king and queen sitting there in the waiting room for fucking ever.

  So the special specialist thinks another laser treatment, but not a scalpel to drain the eye treatment.  This is all said very calmly and matter of factly.

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