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many thanks louise for your good wishes

have had a really good day accept for my double vision, went to the supermarket with my husband, and did very well, the neo physio nurse came to see me ,and said i was doing really well, so that made me feel good still got my patch on as if i take it off i feel really weird. (still early days yet)so must put up with it .love prue xx

hi beth thank you for reply our cat and dog are both spoilt m y husband holds the plate for my cat to feed,do hope you get on ok with your operation it really is a worrying time but good luck.love pruexx

many thanks for your kind reply,what would we all do without people like you as we have nowhere else to go to find out these things apart from the people who have been through it love prue xx

sorry to bother you but i have a question about double vision i find when i take my patch off i feel like im looking cross eyed did you feel like that or is it just me .pruexx

hi michelle thanks so much for your mail, i really dread the thought of losing my dog after 14 half years she has been a super dog my second i had a rough collie before, and now iam 70 i am wondering if it will be to late she cant understand why i have a patch over my eye and my cat looks at me quite strange but i do love my animals we feed all the birds and the fox who comes at night we live in the country hope you have had a good day love prue

hi all not a good day for me dizzy and having a bad eye day but i must take the rough with the smooth,had a walk but really did not feel like it, but i did it.have done a bit of house work but will go to bed early.Have done a bit of shopping saw the doctor yesterday as i have still got a problem with my frozen arm,so waiting to go to physio again,dog seems ok thank goodness,hope everybody else is going on ok.love prue xx

thanks for your good wishes dog is doing well,hope your mum is going on alright, pruex,

so sorry to hear you lost your dog,we must have been very lucky as ours is 14 and a half, pruex

the he is a her and she is called sophie 14and a half years old cross springer and collie sable and white,icould not manage without this site you will find that most of the questions you want to ask the answers are here somwhere,good luck prue

many thanks for all your replys ,ihave taken note prue

hi prue here,what happens about my driving licence,does the hospital inforn any one or what happens ,no one has said anything about it,cant drive anyway at the moment,would not be able to see the road,love pruexx

many thanks for your reply,,hope you are well,i am sorry but i must disagree with you on the hospital as a whole, ann moore the consultant was good,but the wards were filthy,toilet floor was soaking ,my husband complained every day for 7 days,he was bringing me meals every day because the food was so bad (the wine list was not very good either) maybe i hit it on a bad week,but i was in there in march when they operated on my spine and it was pretty much the same,still all that is in the past i hope,glad your time in there was better,keep well prue((

i had been suffering with a bad arm and had a cortisone injection on monday 23 sep the next day it was a bit better and the day after it was veryy good,so we went shopping to get all the food for my 70th birthday party,we had about 35 people coming to the house,i sat down about 1pm to read the paper when i had this terrible pain right over my head,i called my husband and he took me to our local hospital,they said i had an ear infection,and gave me 2 paracetamols,sent me to see my doctor at 4pm,she said the same,the next day iwas worse and went to see another doctor,she said ear infection and urine infection,took sample to send off,saturday put up with all the pain,then 5am sunday icould stand it no longer,we went to the out of hours doctor,he sent me to the main hospital in torquay,had brain scan,then went to derriford in plymouth,another scan,and op on 30th,6 days after first suffering,on discharge from hospital 8 days later,i had no help or advice at all,we had to sort it all out ourselves,district nurse,neuro phy,walking aids,new rails and handles to help me ,then i found this site,all the help i needed,it was someone else to talk to ,who had been through the same ,still early days 32 days,but thank goodness for this site,just one coincidence,i was haveing my op at 1pm and my dog had a dog version of sah,my husband took her to the vet at 11 30 because he thought she was having a fit,she was going round in circles and her eyes were rolling,vet said it was a burst vein in head,harry did not tell me any of this untill i got home,dog is fine now ,still on tablets but doing well.

prue here just to give update on how i have been,have been trying without patch,as karen suggested,find it ouite difficult with balance,but stuck it for 3 hours,i had a little single vision,but side view and looking up was not good and gave me a headache,eye is still only half open at the moment but then it is only 31 days since op.have been going for 2 walks of 20 mins on my own every day,i am walking straight,but would not try it without patch.done a bit of hovering and other housework,went into the shops yesterday on my way to have a flue jab,then exhausted,not bad for a young 70 year old, ha ha

many thanks karen for your message it has been very reasuring to hear how you have all managed,it will help me no end,by the way how do i put a photo on,(new to all this high tec)silver surfer, Prue

many thanks to all of you for your replies,this is the only place that i have been able to get any sense about sah,most illnesses have a phone or local place you can contact,but not this one,just like me to get somthing unusual,had another 20 min walk twice today,on my own,not without my patch,so i am trying,but get really annoyed because i cant do the things that i want to,once again thanks for your help prue

had sah op on 30 9 08 the main thing is my double vision i wear a patch over my left eye,if i take it off then i am dizzy and double vision,still have a droppy eye lid,can anyone tell me how long the vision will lastmy name is prue and i was 70 last saturday,i have been doing a 20 minute walk for the last few days but the vision is the worst,look forward to any infomation,thanks