Thanks, Connecting-the-Dots! I am celebrating my new passing-colors eye exam for today's results not pointing to imminent retinal detachment, but merely aging of the vitreous fluid of my myopic eyes. I don't blame the optometrist who did the first exam Friday, when I wandered in asking about seeing flashes. But very, very grateful to the…
Thanks, Connecting-the-Dots! I am celebrating my new passing-colors eye exam for today's results not pointing to imminent retinal detachment, but merely aging of the vitreous fluid of my myopic eyes. I don't blame the optometrist who did the first exam Friday, when I wandered in asking about seeing flashes. But very, very grateful to the eye surgeon who saved my son's eye from a terrible injury in 1994, is still graciously in practice.
He and I came full circle today, when I said, "I feel I should say the Shehecheyanu" (Jewish prayer of thanksgiving) when he said, looking at my optometrist's report and the more detailed one his staff had just recorded. He reads my hair as blonde and said, "I remember you as a redhead, sorry I didn't know you right away." Funny that late in life my hair reads as blonde, when it's probably 60 percent white. Never got my color out of a box. I found out that people travel from all over upstate NY to go to this science-based, always pushing forward, eye doctor. He's invented a tool! Please, I refuse to see Marci Bowers and Erica Anderson in the same profession.
For a longer bit about this, and the Brooklyn woo I had to witness as we returned, women who are mothers, with obviously mutilated chests, outshouting children they seem to have birthed, check in a day or two on uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com.
I love navigatingbyshadow.wordpress.com, a cohort, a support, a sister who went through more than I can say here when her brother started saying he wanted to start looking more like their mother. I don't know if I can jump to substack. I take it as a compliment.
Ute Heggen, author, In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow (iuniverse, 2022)
Thank GOD, literally, that your diagnosis was positive, so you can continue to write and enlighten others. I think the substack jump would be an easy "cut and past", as you do your wordpress pieces. I felt like it was a daunting prospect before I started, and now that has shifted to, wanting to write content that is useful others. That's my last pitch, as not to overstep.
I'll take a look at your other works. Thanks for sharing and glad you are well!
Feel free to pitch again! Thanks. I appreciate your confidence in me. I have something like 7k who've read almost 34k posts, since January this year. I will look into it. I won't make it monetized. Managing comments would probably be the difficulty. Meanwhile, Colin Wright at Reality's Last Stand says he's going to contact me. It's a great site, I recommend.
Thanks, Connecting-the-Dots! I am celebrating my new passing-colors eye exam for today's results not pointing to imminent retinal detachment, but merely aging of the vitreous fluid of my myopic eyes. I don't blame the optometrist who did the first exam Friday, when I wandered in asking about seeing flashes. But very, very grateful to the eye surgeon who saved my son's eye from a terrible injury in 1994, is still graciously in practice.
He and I came full circle today, when I said, "I feel I should say the Shehecheyanu" (Jewish prayer of thanksgiving) when he said, looking at my optometrist's report and the more detailed one his staff had just recorded. He reads my hair as blonde and said, "I remember you as a redhead, sorry I didn't know you right away." Funny that late in life my hair reads as blonde, when it's probably 60 percent white. Never got my color out of a box. I found out that people travel from all over upstate NY to go to this science-based, always pushing forward, eye doctor. He's invented a tool! Please, I refuse to see Marci Bowers and Erica Anderson in the same profession.
For a longer bit about this, and the Brooklyn woo I had to witness as we returned, women who are mothers, with obviously mutilated chests, outshouting children they seem to have birthed, check in a day or two on uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com.
I love navigatingbyshadow.wordpress.com, a cohort, a support, a sister who went through more than I can say here when her brother started saying he wanted to start looking more like their mother. I don't know if I can jump to substack. I take it as a compliment.
Ute Heggen, author, In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow (iuniverse, 2022)
Thank GOD, literally, that your diagnosis was positive, so you can continue to write and enlighten others. I think the substack jump would be an easy "cut and past", as you do your wordpress pieces. I felt like it was a daunting prospect before I started, and now that has shifted to, wanting to write content that is useful others. That's my last pitch, as not to overstep.
I'll take a look at your other works. Thanks for sharing and glad you are well!
Feel free to pitch again! Thanks. I appreciate your confidence in me. I have something like 7k who've read almost 34k posts, since January this year. I will look into it. I won't make it monetized. Managing comments would probably be the difficulty. Meanwhile, Colin Wright at Reality's Last Stand says he's going to contact me. It's a great site, I recommend.