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Hearing aids, cataracts and a new injection routine

Started 4 April 2025 · 16 replies · 165 hearts · read 2.6k times

OllyReading, UK · 4 April 2025
1.3 years ago

Hearing aids, cataracts and a new injection routine — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

The logistics of this are defeating me more than the medicine is.

I have a specific situation coming up and I would like to plan for it properly rather than improvising on the day, which is what I did last time.

This is the boring administrative kind of problem, which I gather is the kind that actually gets solved when you ask.

If anybody has an arrangement that works and is willing to write it out, I would be very grateful.

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BertrandToulouse, FR
#1

Coming back at two years to say it has been uneventful, that my mobility is better than it was, and that I am glad I asked rather than assuming I was too old.

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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#2

Facilitator note: nothing in this circle is medical advice and the practical arrangements still need agreeing with whoever prescribes for you.

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BrimHalifax, UK
#3

What helped most was a physiotherapist who gave me a specific programme rather than a general encouragement to be active.

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OsmanAnkara, TR
#4

Brim said something I want to sit with for a second.

Nothing here is medical advice, and at my stage the interactions with everything else genuinely need somebody qualified looking at the whole list.

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LucasSão Paulo, BR
#5

Osman, thank you for that. It gives me somewhere to start from.

The thing I would say to somebody at my stage is that going slowly is not being timid, it is being sensible about a body with a longer history.

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EdwynNewcastle, UK
#6

My reviews are twice a year and I prepare properly for both, and they are the most productive appointments I have ever had.

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PietPretoria, ZA
#7

What surprised me was how much I have enjoyed the strength work, having never done anything of the sort in my life.

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OttilieCheshire, UK
#8

I found this circle because everywhere else assumed I was thirty-five and had never had a hip replaced.

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OllyReading, UK
#9

Ottilie — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

My balance and my grip are the two things I watch, and both have improved, and neither of them is on any form anybody gives me.

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BertrandToulouse, FR
#10

The pharmacist has been the most useful person in this whole business, and I would say that to anybody at my stage.

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NikoTbilisi, GE
#11

My experience is that this has been straightforward and that it needed more careful setting up than it would have at forty.

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BrimHalifax, UK
#12

The falls conversation was worth having explicitly, and it produced a practical set of things I would not have thought of.

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OsmanAnkara, TR
#13

Building on what Bertrand wrote rather than answering the original question.

I found the online material almost entirely aimed at people thirty years younger, which is why this circle matters to me.

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LucasSão Paulo, BR
#14

What helped was one clinician who took a view of the whole of me rather than four people each managing one thing.

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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#15

I want to acknowledge how much unglamorous organising sits behind most of the accounts here. It is real work and it rarely gets named as work.

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PietPretoria, ZA
#16

Building on what Ren wrote rather than answering the original question.

Something I did not expect was how much better my knees have been, which was not what I was aiming at and is what I most appreciate.

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