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They're "Good People"

dragonflyreptiles said:
Wes is the man and even though some may think he is all out to get everyone he really isn't (IMHO), he just has a way about him and how he says things that scares people (me inculded sometimes lol) but when he is done with you and done knocking you to the ground for your mistake, he will and does help you get back up if you really want his help and do the right thing!

One I did leave off is Critical Bill, he is one of my favorites on this site and I hold very high regard for him!
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Wendy, I remember my very first post to you. You had me at hello....*giggles*. Thank you for the mention, I too value very much what you bring to fauna.

I think its safe to say that I value all of you. You each bring a wealth of knowledge and experience that makes fauna a very special place.
 
Chuck I rememeber the beginning post with you too and I gotta say Id be in BIG trouble if I admitted you had me at hello TOOO hehehehehe

I do think that fauna as a whole is an amazing group of people!
 
dragonflyreptiles said:
I know you have bad eyesight and I feel for you, I am -275 in the right and -325 in the left but I can see close up and about 20/40 with contacts.

My moms vision is like yours and she has to have glasses to find her glasses lol

Your typos really make my day by making me see how much you put into this site without being able to see very well and it has to be hard at times so I know your typos are earned by taking time to post all you can to help others and an inibility to view everything you type!
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iv always had poor eyesight so i dont know any different, it is just worse now. the only aid i use is my magnifyer.. people ask me how i get around but when you have grown up this way, you dont know what good eyesight so it comes second nature and just make due with what ya got. i really live just like everyone here with a few exceptions. poeple would be very suprised what i can do... russ hates it when i am using a knife to cut veggies like the big kitchen knife or the cleever lmao or when i use my box cutter to clean under my fingernails (when i have fingernails)
 
robin s. said:
iv always had poor eyesight so i dont know any different, it is just worse now. the only aid i use is my magnifyer.. people ask me how i get around but when you have grown up this way, you dont know what good eyesight so it comes second nature and just make due with what ya got. i really live just like everyone here with a few exceptions. poeple would be very suprised what i can do... russ hates it when i am using a knife to cut veggies like the big kitchen knife or the cleever lmao or when i use my box cutter to clean under my fingernails (when i have fingernails)
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You know I can totally relate with you on the eyesight issue Robin. As I said when we spoke on the phone. I have been on the receiving end of 2 eye operations so far and still have to wear glasses. Hopefully the 3rd operation will let me see without any aids at all.

It's amazing what people can adapt themselves too when they can't see. I know you and I just do things a bit diffrently because we learned to do them sight impaired. I just think it gives us added "character" !!!
 
amen brother.. i have only had one operation on my eyes as a child... the only operations i forsee are corneal transplants in both eyes but until i can no longer funtion normally im not gonna get em too much risk involved at this pint in time
 
robin s. said:
iv always had poor eyesight so i dont know any different, it is just worse now. the only aid i use is my magnifyer.. people ask me how i get around but when you have grown up this way, you dont know what good eyesight so it comes second nature and just make due with what ya got. i really live just like everyone here with a few exceptions. poeple would be very suprised what i can do... russ hates it when i am using a knife to cut veggies like the big kitchen knife or the cleever lmao or when i use my box cutter to clean under my fingernails (when i have fingernails)
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My moms eyesight is like that too, she can get around the house because she knows where everything is but she can't "see" anything. I was over there on Easter when we were getting ready to go to my aunties for brunch and mom was frantic that she could not find her glasses so we were searching everywhere, I finally looked over at her and said hey they are on your face and she said no I use these to see well enough to find my real ones. I feel for her, her eyes have been like that since childhood too.

I started wearing glasses in grade school but I an nearsighted so Im fine with the close stuff, mom can;t see close, middle or far, she has those tri focals and they still do not get her to 20/20

Russ sounds like a grea guy! Id be a alittle nervous seeing you with a big knife or that box cutter too lol

mine says I am not allowed around sharp objects cause Im so clumsy
 
Bad eyes....

...I'll just add that to my list of growing ailments. I hate the thought of operations so I may just decide to become the snoop doggy dog of fauna.
 
wendy, the best my vision has ever been was 20/80 i am nearsighted as well but since this kertoconus i cant see close middle or far... well i can see better close than far but much worse now
my corrected vision is 20/250 left eye and 20/300 something in the right.. i dont know or care what my uncorrected vision is... once you reach a certasin point well its pointless to know... you just know its crappy LOL
 
Robin, that is about what mine is uncorrected, Ill have to take my contacts out on a brave day and see if I can get threw the house, I am 20/275 and 20/325 but with my stay in everyday contacts I an about 20/40 so I have NO idea how you do all you do!
 
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Robin, that is about what mine is uncorrected, Ill have to take my contacts out on a brave day and see if I can get threw the house, I am 20/275 and 20/325 but with my stay in everyday contacts I an about 20/40 so I have NO idea how you do all you do!
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My sight uncorrected is 20/60 in both eyes after surgery. With contacts I see a perfect 20/20 but I hope to one day get lasic(sp?) surgery and not have to wear anything.
I had to have my retna's reattatched when I was 19 due to having retinitus pigmentosa. My grandmother and 2 of her brothers had it and were all completely blind by 22 yrs of age. Sadly back in the early to mid 70's surgery was not an option for any of them.
 
Well this thread has taken another interesting turn, but at least we aren't huddled around a urinal again. But while on the vision topic, has anyone out there actually had the lazik (or whatever) surgery? I've been thinking about it for years now (after my mom had it done) but I'm a little apprehensive about the fact that you can never wear contacts again. What if your vision gets worse or whatever and you end up needing glasses? I'm fine with the idea of needing them for reading, but I CAN'T STAND wearing them all the time. (sorry to those of you who do, but I go through glasses like nursing homes go through toilet paper).
 
I've wanted it for years now but I can't afford it and my insurance doesn't cover it. I looked in to it at one time but have not kept up to date with any advances in it.

I break at least 2 pairs of glasses a year and I can't stand them. I only wear them when I drive. Other than that they get tossed some place and half the time I can't find them.

As for contacts, I don't have the patience for them. Tried them once and scratched my cornea and had to wear a patch for 2 weeks. Have not wore them since.
 
My wife had Lazik surgery about a year and a half ago and has been extremely happy with the results. I still "cope" with my bifocals.
 
the only options i have are cornea transplant and cornea transplant.. both eyes nothing more can be done... ah but im notgonna get it yet i mean if i end up being unable to function i will think about it but allot of things change. can happen... anti rejection meds blah blah blah
ima stick with my crappy eyes for now. they work as good as they can and they get me where i need to go and whatnot. they havent completely failed me yet.
 
I had Lazik...

If I could do it over again, I'd live with glasses!

I had 20/600 vision, coke bottle glasses, and then in 2001 I had surgery.

NOW... I have 20/20 vision.... all three images!

I can drive, but I can't read street signs. So my confidence as a driver is shot. I was married the same year and my husband does the majority of the driving.

The Lazik place said that they consider me a 100% success. I just didn't realize that being a success meant things like not being able to see details like I could with my glasses. I'm more sensitive to motion, so when a lizard runs across our back fence, I see it! But I cannot see any details. Being fond of the natural world, I feel cheated. There are no glasses to correct the vision problems I now have. And my eyes have become "lazy" since the surgery... I cannot drive for any long period of time, the focus necessary for long-distance driving results in my eyes starting to wander in two directions, making it impossible to see at all. The only long distance driving I've done is shortly after I got married the year I had the Lazik, when hubby and I moved to Arizona... I drove the moving truck. I couldn't do it now though.

I would say that to a person in a city, who doesn't care about the flora and fauna, and just needs to interact with people and doesn't do much driving, this is a great procedure. But for me personally it permanently ruined my ability to see the details that nature so abundantly provides, it ruined my ability to be a confident driver, and it's probably the single-most regretted decision in my life. Lately I've also started having whole "swaths" of darkness crossing my line of vision.... inside the eye not external, and only momentarily, but I have started to fear that I will become blind.

In any case, this is all off-topic.

As far as those who get the "good people" award..... in general it's all the people who are "good guys" and treat others well and make up the ethical half of the people in the hobby.

Several of the specific people I have interacted with

Ms. Therese - She's always the true voice of reason on any thread
Cheryl aka JM - Great feeder help when I started off
Wes - he's my knight in shiny (okay, perhaps slightly tarnished?) armor
Rich - What can one say?
Dennis Thomas - he's helped me with a few questions pertinent to being an AZ resident
Lucille - Because her caring and compassion mean so much to me.

There are others but those are the ones that come to mind in a short period of time. I love this place for it's strengths (the membership), I tolerate it despite the backbiting, and I'm sometimes sad due to the conflicts that rear there ugly head. Most especially I'm grateful for the lesson in humanity, sanity, and good-guy-edness that this place affords. I don't do much buying and not much selling, but it helps me to know the kind of person I want to be when I enter a transaction. So the best "Great People" award goes not to an individual, but to the community that this place is.
 
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