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Blog Thread 4; Live Free or Blog Hard - 'cos we all like blogging
mtmerrick:
If you're at all hard on your glasses (like I am) go rimless. Glasses held together by screws fall apart really easily.
Welu:
I went through so many screws glasses because I could get them for free while I was in school and my eyes deteriorated really quickly. I think I had to change glasses eight times since I was eleven before my eyes settled. So yeah, it wasn't worth splashing out for a nice pair till a couple years ago. I want rimless more to wear for costuming since contacts are expensive and I don't like wearing them. They're not uncomfortable, I'm just too used to my glasses.
Carl-E:
Eyesight's a common topic in here, and I think I "won" the last round... I'm only correctable to about 20/45 or so, with 12 diopter lenses (well, OK, it's only 11.75 in one eye...).
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There are lots of causes for the spinal fluid thing - it's one of those mysterious systems of the body, there's actually very little understanding of where it comes from or where it goes. They had done an eye test on her looking for it when we first came to the hospital, it's one place that it shows externally, but it wasn't showing there. However, she was having some blurred vision around the edges and a runny nose - apparently the excess fluid has been leaking out around her eyes and into her sinuses.
I'm hoping it's related to the autoimmune problems she's been having. I'm also hoping they actually can figure out some kind of treatment that won't kill her...
Thrillho:
I thought that once your body made its spinal fluid it was gone forever if they took it out?
LTK:
Nah. It's just water with proteins in it, probably not all that different from blood plasma. It's produced by the choroid plexus in the ventricles of the brain. The choroid plexus has a similar function for CSF as the liver has for blood: filtration, transport, etcetera.
I must admit that I learned half of this from anatomy classes and the other half from Wikipedia, so it's probably not as poorly understood as you think.
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