[AT] from Charlie Hill

[John Hall]

Bo, if Charlie can't get list mail, please forward to him.

Charlie, if you are not pleased with the results your eye dr's are 
providing, please look into Duke Eye Center here in Durham. I know, 
that's about 2 hrs away, but Duke sees patients from all over the state.

https://www.dukehealth.org/locations/duke-eye-center

John Hall


On 12/16/2017 10:57 AM, Bo Hinch wrote:
> This is what I received from Charlie Hill about a week ago .
>
> Thanks Bo. I always had excellent vision and no reason to see eye doctors.
> A couple of years ago I noticed a slight change in my right eye and figured
> I had the beginning of a cataract. Then all of a sudden it got worse. I
> called and explained my situation and they saw me a couple of days later.
> Told me I had glaucoma and that it was relatively advanced. Turns out I
> have a sort of glaucoma where your eye pressures are normal. It took a year
> for them to finally send me to a specialist. She told me my pressures need
> to be in single digits and the only way to get there is with these little
> shunts that are smaller than an uncooked grain of rice. They bleed off some
> of the fluid in the eyes. So far the one I had done is working perfectly.
> Unfortunately my vision loss is significant in that eye. It's strange. I
> can read 20/20 in that eye but it's like I'm looking through a cheap rifle
> scope with a foggy lens. Other eye is still pretty good. Oh well. I'm
> blessed to have finally found the right doctor. I spent a year with the
> other doctor telling me he had my pressure under control. All the while I
> was telling him my vision was getting worse and he kept telling me it was
> my cataract. Turns out my cataract is not bad yet. If he had referred me 8
> months ago I'd probably still see nearly normal in that eye.
>
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 6:28 PM, Kenneth Gene Waugh <kgwaugh0943 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Good to hear from Charlie!  What eye work did he have done?
>>
>> Gene
>> Elgin, IL
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Dec 15, 2017, at 6:10 PM, Bo Hinch <bohinch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Received this a short while ago on FB messenger and am passing it on as
>> per
>>> Charlies request .
>>>
>>> Hi Bo. I haven't seen any of my messages show up on ATIS in quite a
>> while.
>>> I communicate with the list on my computer and FB primarily on my phone.
>> I
>>> started sending emails to ATIS members to see if any of them have seen my
>>> messages. None of them replied. Strange I thought. I was starting to get
>>> paranoid. Then tonight it dawned on me. NONE of my mail from my computer
>> is
>>> going out. I sent mail to my phone's Gmail account as a test and never
>> got
>>> it. It's not bouncing either. I guess eventually I will figure it out. I
>>> just wanted you to know. I f you would, pass my situation on to ATIS so
>>> those guys will know. Herb metz emailed me last week concerned about me.
>> I
>>> answered him but now I realize he never got the message. I think this has
>>> been going on for weeks possibly. Thanks PS, my eye surgery went well!
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