That definitely sucked.

@JoyfulSilence oh I'm sorry. I've heard that is way worse for guys.

This should be my last procedure for a while. At least I'm hoping lol

@SwampFlower

I wish you some relaxation.

I got another eyeball injection yesterday for my diabetic retinopathy. The doc says they are working. I have another in a month.

They numb my eye, hold it open with tiny clamps, then inject. This time I did not feel it at all, really. I actually had to ask, "Did you do it already?" He said yes. Wow! In the past I had a different doctor and always felt it. But it was not bad, just a prick. But in my friggin eyeball. Sheesh.

The rest of my health is OK, given what I have.

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I cannot say that for my mental health. Elon and Trump hate us and terrorize us, hoping we will quit because they cannot fire us legally, yet.

But they just told all agencies to draw up plans to cut programs, departments, non-essential and not legally required staff, etc. So I might be fired this year, due to that.

My office needs me and finds me valuable. But if they axe the whole program, I am screwed. Yet I think first Congress might have to pass a law.

@JoyfulSilence Eye ball injections sound like an actual nightmare. I would probably puke.

I am sorry you are dealing with so much uncertainty with your job. I hope it all works out for you.

@JoyfulSilence I am sorry you are going so much through the mill at present.

I hope the treatment is successul and you do keep your employment.

@SwampFlower

I have had so many injections I have lost count. What actually is more annoying is being dilated the rest of the day. I can still drive myself home, but I do not resume working. Sometimes I just sleep.

@ArishMell

Yeah, I will need my job just for the heath insurance, LOL!

I probably could keep my plan if I got fired, but I may have to pay the entire premium. Yet I do not know

@JoyfulSilence I have needed a catheter due to a lingering effect of a spinal anaesthetic for a knee operation. Its insertion was painful but its removal was not.

No fun being ill or needing surgery.....

@ArishMell

Yeah, I am sick of hospitals, doctors, nurses, and insurance companies. And rehab centers are horrible.

@JoyfulSilence Well, I'm lucky in that I don't need health-insurance. No-one wants to be in hospital but I did have very good treatment from the nurses and doctors; and my convalescence was at home and by a few physiotherapists.

Though it's not easy to sleep in a hospital ward: too hot, too much light coming in from the corridor and nurses' station just outside the 10 or 12 bed room. Especially at 3am when loud thumping would help keeping me awake. On enquiry I was told these were by the cartridges used in the hospital's vacuum-tuve conveyor system, dropping into the receiving tub below the outlet!

@ArishMell

I fortunately had my own hospital room. But still had interruptions all day from staff. Some necessarily, others overkill.

In the rehab home I shared my room with an old man in a diaper who could not walk, and left his TV on all night, and often spilled his open urine bottle on the floor, which sometimes got wiped up, yet only with a towel! When I got up to hobble over to the bathroom, I would turn his TV off, since he was sleeping.

The door was always open, and the staff talked loudly all night in foreign languages. I think they were all African.

@JoyfulSilence The staff I met were considerate but the over-hot room and the excessive light kep me awake.

I did once press my Alarm buttoin, and the nurse soon appeared.

"Not for me", I whispered, "but the chap asleep in that end bed. His oxygen mask has slipped off."

She thanked me and went over to refit it for him.