“so yeah, I’m going
blind for …. “
WHAAAAT????? Go back… you’re going blind? What happened… Marco WTF?
“eh?”
Well, you just said youre going blind again…
“eh yeah??….oooohhh. naaaaaAAAHHHHHHH,
hold on… “
(I was on the phone to my Friend Anna, and just realised she
had not seen the Quotations marks I made when I said I was “going blind”)
“No, hold on, what I was
trying to say was that, I’m going blind , insert quotations marks, for 10 days
to give my eyes a rest for further testing….”
And I proceed to tell her all the details of the upcoming
time of “darkness”
I’m not allowed to
wear my contacts for that period so that my eyes will have the most rest
possible, and we create a new baseline to work from for future treatment/
management, as it looks my eyes have deteriorated… (which is to be expected
with a degenerative disease), and as I only got this in my mid- thirties, opposed
to the normal early teens, early twenties situation, the docs wanted to make
sure everything get monitored a bit more stringent… .fair enough I guess..
But how is that going to work?
I have, ofcourse, gone through this (the “not seeing much to
almost nothing” malarkey) before, but at that stage I was co-habiting with my girlfriend, which in all
honesty helped a lot… from following at least a similar routine / sleeping
pattern to the fact there’s someone
there to talk to and with, instead of sitting there completely isolated… Plus I
lived in a pretty well maintained area, pavements, road and public transport
wise…. and now I’m living on my own, in a fairly new area to me..
I am pretty mobile with just using my Cane and although the
roads and pavements here are a bit more filled with potholes I think I’ll be
fine, then again, as some of my friends here have told me, it there might still
be the safety issue of the “vulnerable
white man” hobbling along..
Something I
honestly had never thought of , but will
not just dismiss ofcourse, after having more than just one person mentioning it…
To
be honest I have been told more than once that there is a big issue in KL with
regards to “smash- grab ride-by’s” on motor bikes and you don’t want to just
invite it I guess…
So even with a big Shopping mall almost on my Door Step, I can’t
see myself venturing out a massive amount during this time …
I have a swimming
pool at the condo complex where I live and might just try and figure how to get
there safely without using my lenses and just swim and swim… or ad least don’t stay
inside the whole time…
Then there a question ive been asked over the last couple of
days a lot as well.. .”how are you going
to cope food wise? “
Well… whereas last time I coped pretty well, and cooked quite
a lot myself actually, I now have to compromise a bit more…
Firstly, previously we had an induction stove and now I have
gas…. Which I love cooking with, but it brings a different problem, instead of
grabbing the panhandle the risk is too big I might just grab the flame
instead, so that’s a massive no-no…
Cutting up Veg and meat wasn’t ideal last time around, and will
definitely not be an idea now either.. I did have a better equipped kitchen so
was able to improvise a bit more, not now…
So what then?
Well, preparation seems the key…. Fill up my
cupboard with easy food like instant noodles and stuff, bread of course and so
on…
Fill up the fridge with Bread spread stuff, but also stock
it with prepared meals… cook them the previous week and fill up the freezer section
and fridge with the dishes… and reheat as and when required…..
But , I hear you
say... how you gonna reheat if you only have gas stoves?.. .well, a friend has
offered me a small one point electric induction plate that can help with that… so yeah… there’s
ways…
And of course, with so many small and cheap restaurant options
(people say its cheaper to eat out in Malaysia then cooking ) there’s always
the option of food deliveries….. Chinese, Indian, Malay, Thai,Japanese, Western
and sooo much more…
Luckily my phone can be voice controlled…
Hi, is that McDonalds? ;-)
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