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…but not for long!

Some of you may already know this…but I can’t help but talk about it….I’m stoked!

I’ve been unable to ride due to an eye disease since Nov 08…I’m not a very pleasant person if I can’t ride (hell – I’m barely palatable when I can LoL)

I have an eye disease called Map Dot Fingerprint Dystrophy (Cogan’s Dystrophy) – in essence my corneas look like cobblestones…plenty of pain, often feels like there’s glass in them, water like crazy and I end up not being able to drive cos I can’t keep the active or flaring eye open….I end up laying in the dark…with a boomin headache and can’t read, can’t watch tv, can’t be on the puter…for days at a time….and when it gets unbearable I have to impose on one of my friends to take me to the hospital so they can freeze the damn eye to get it to stop.

it’s a major PITA…I’ve been fighting it for about 6 years but the last 2 years have been the real pinnacle

the surgery I need is a type of corneal abrading that will force my cornea to regenerate (Phototherapeutic keratectomy (PTK))…the theory being that the regenerated cornea will be normal and I shouldn’t have the issues with my eyes once it’s done

so….I need in the ballpark of $5000.00 (anywhere from 1500.00 to 2500.00 an eye) worth of laser surgery and BC Medical wouldn’t pay it cos they’ve decreed that all laser surgery is cosmetic…and I sure as hell ain’t got no $5000.00 to throw around…

my arguement all along (once I really found out what it was – cos that was no walk in the park either) in my case the surgery won’t won’t “repair” my vision like it would if I was getting PRK (Photorefractive Keratectomy) which is the surgery they do so you don’t have to wear glasses anymore

I keep saying that I’ll happily wear glasses for the rest of my life if I just don’t have to have sore peepers….and if I don’t have sore peepers…I can ride!

today word came in that the surgeon has finally been able to convince the MSP board that I should be funded and that they have agreed.

So I get to have the surgery on the 4th of June…that fact in itself wasn’t any kind of a celebration because my boss tried to tell me that it meant that I’d have to cancel all my holidays this summer if I took a week off to have this surgery…but after several phone calls and some “information sharing” via our HR dept it’s booked!

So about a week recovery

and then if all goes well I can go back to work….but mostly I can insure the Pickle and see if I can get the old girl to start.

let’s have a little discussion
on the do’s and don’ts
of merging in traffic

shall we?

Instructions to merge right when the left lane ends are as follows:

• Good judgment and good timing are necessary to merge smoothly with the faster-moving traffic.

• Motorists should reach proper speed so that the driver can merge smoothly into the travel lane when the way is clear.

• Always use the proper left turn signal to indicate the need to enter the traffic lane.

• Drivers already on the roadway should, for their own safety, make allowance for vehicles attempting to enter.

• It is the driver’s responsibility to yield the right-of-way to other cars on the roadway when changing lanes.

• Remember that through lanes always have right of way over on ramps and lanes ending, so merge sooner rather than later if at all possible.

No where in there does it say:

• Come screaming up on the left going fast as hell in some half baked attempt to beat the whole line of traffic in the fight lane

• Don’t bother signaling cos the idiot in the right lane knows yer gonna wanna be in his/her lane right where his/her car is

• Don’t bother looking over your shoulder cos cos the idiot in the right lane knows yer gonna wanna be in his/her lane right where his/her car is

• Flash the person in the right lane the bird and lay on your horn cos they don’t slow down to let you in front of them…

cos really?

you just end up
looking like the asshat
you are
and you get
to the next intersection
approximately 30 seconds
before I do.

Asshat.