OT: Maui Karen

Had an email from Maui Karen  this morning before daylight Maui time. She sounds fine just very busy testing babies, both her hours and for a co worker. She said she misses us all and will try to find time to post soon. Thought I'd just pass on this note to let you who have missed her know that she is ok. She says the extra hours are good for the paycheck tho hard on the free time.

Thank You Karen, So how's the Kiddlets and Mom. Every one doing well?
Have you seen any spring flowers. We have some of the Freeway Daisy's / Shasta Daisy's shooting up along the road's , so pretty and yellow. That is why I call my little  yellow truck Daisy , ( She) is the very same color as the beautiful flowers, my Lil' bit of trivia for the day.
Thanks again for letting us know about Karen, Peg

Aloha my friend...and thank you for mentioning my name on here. I have been so missing everyone, and being a silent sister..........a proverbial "fly on the wall" lately.

I think some of it has to do with being busy, and some of it has to do with the condition of my eyes. A couple of months ago I was told I have cataracts and since then my vision has gotten worse and worse. Reading closeup things like the newspaper is really hard....it's fuzzy. Then the same happens with street signs, and writing on TV.....fuzzy! Just the other day I had an appointment to have field of vision test and glaucoma test. Thankfully I don't have glaucoma, but am ready for cataract surgery.

My surgery doc would like for me to go back years and years and see if I can find what my first contact lens Rx was. And then when I had RK in both eyes. Yikes......I am going to have to really dig into my past because that was probably 35 years ago. I have had Kaiser for years and years so maybe I can figure it out that way, but I don't think I had the RK through them. Monday I will begin researching.....I doubt if those records are even available any longer. He says my chances of having 20/20 vision after cat. surgery will be much better if he knows what I used to be back then. I have so much beauty around me, and I'm seeing it in a blur........not a good thing.

I miss so many OH mates.......and try and pop in and read often. Someone mentioned Monica, and I realized how much I miss her sharing as they wandered around in their RV. Hope she is OK.

Jeannie, too, I worry about as she had gone through so much weight loss, and difficulty eating. Would love to hear how she is coping.

It's good to see Candy posting, and occasionally her ratpack friend, Janet.....Ha! I feel better when I know you are all here.

Our tsunami scare on Feb. 27th shook me up, and made me so thankful and appreciative that I still have my little home. That day could have turned out very differently.

I love to come in here with my coffee in the morning and read what you all have been up to. It's like we were meeting at someone's house and sharing our experiences and challenges and successes.

Good for you, Karen, on getting back on track and working toward getting off those last few lbs. I have a feeling you will do it. My weight just stays between 155 and 162......and I pretty much eat what I want to. I try to eat a lot of fruits (pears with peanut butter is a favorite), like strawberries, blueberries and tiny apple bananas that my friends bring down from their upcountry house. Not so good at the veggies....and really bad with the ice cream and pie.....but so far those just seem to race through my body, in and out without sticking to my bones. I NEED to get to the gym and work on building muscles to firm up this baggy saggy skin!

I am so glad that Erin is doing well.........what a scare! My son and DIL in Santa Cruz just bought a new house last week....they are so excited. It has 4 bedrooms, 3 baths and a big park right in the back where their three little energizer bunny boys can romp and play all day. I'm happy for them and they say it even has "tutu quarters" for when I come to visit. They were hinting at a month or more at a time.....I don't know about that. Leaving Maui gets harder and harder to do as I get older.

Thanks for the nudge to check in. I'm sending hugs to all of you who have been faithfully posting, and hope your lives getting better and better as spring explodes into rich colors, and warm days.

With so much aloha,

Maui Karen

MK, Mike and I both have "aging eys" too. I had the beginnings of cataracts, at least that was 2 years ago. My vision is getting a bit blurry and the print seems so small and. . . . nothing seems bright enough. So, I need to make an exam appt. Also on top of that I have very baggy upper eye tissue. I've had it removed about 10 years ago but am due for that also. I use a magnifying glass often now for print that I could easily read not too long ago. Thanks for stopping in. We have missed you!

Aloha friend.......I, too, was told a couple of years ago, I had the "beginnings" of cataracts and that eventually would need surgery. Now, the doc is just saying, I can set a date just as soon as I am sick and tired of not being able to see........and although I can see, and read, it's fuzzy. I would LOVE to see the beauty around me through clear eyes!

I, too, have the baggy eye tissue......would LOVE to have that removed. Maybe someday.

Aloha nui loa,

Maui Karen

Have your eye doctor document with pictures. When it gets bad enough insurance will cover it. It's not painful at all. You'll just look like a raccoon for a week or so! It affects my perpheral vision so much. They do before and after (tape up the tissue) in a test and it readily shows the effect.

Maui Karen....so glad you popped in and let us know you are okay. You know how we worry when we have a friend MIA!!!

Hope you find the info you need and get your eyes straightened out. Blurry must be miserable.

Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers.

Hugs....connie d

Aloha dear Connie.....thank you for your words of support. You always have the greatest responses to people who are struggling. You have a big heart, and I hope you know how much you have helped people by your kind and loving words.

Mahalo, and Aloha nui loa,

Maui Karen

So glad to see  you back here ... I was concerned about you. See, I made the type larger, but I do that in part because I can't see small type either without my glasses.

My life is rather boring without a job to go to these days, but I'm trying to get by. I knew I'd miss working, just didn't realize how much. But at least I got my unemployment now.

We all miss you, MK, glad you stopped by.

Hi Maui Sistah!

So glad you dropped by to say hello, I did think that perhaps your life was busy, but when one of us is MIA for too long, of course, we want to know for sure that things are going ok, I wanted to reach out to Jeanne, but her profile is private and therefore I could not PM her, we did hear from her a short time back and she was gaining weight and I believe she also said she was going to have (or perhaps did have) revision of her pouch due to ulcer condition, hopefully that is why we have not heard too much, but, like you, would love for her to pop out and let us know how things have been progressing.  You are so right about this being a place to come and feel like you are sitting across from them, having a cuppa something and chatting about what is going on, it's been almost three years since I came to this particular forum and it is the one I most regularly participate on now, I've had the distinct pleasure of meeting a number of the women from here, even George and his Mary, so over the course of time, I've come to care about many, you are one of the ones and I worried about how you were with the possibility of tsunami and such things going on in your part of the world. . . 

Anyway, just glad to see your post and some day, I might just get to speak to you, who knows. . .

Wishing you peace and hope your eye doctor gets you seeing clearly real soon!

Hugs, Laureen