Scarlet Pimple

Lots of Eagles over here too Eagle4Caley. Always idly circling round above the house...maybe 1000 feet above us. They are after the goshawks and when they spot one it's all hands to the pumps and hell for leather downwards at a great speed. Them little goshawks can surely fly too, frantically granted, but with spirit and a plan--get to the trees or else. One can only imagine the number of beats per minute their hearts are going at. Great sight. Your dedication has been mentioned in dispatches. All power to your elbow and your wallet. Caley Thistle needs you..

Bughtmaster I will contact you later. Did not like the video of the complicated operation named trabeculectomy. Too many things can go wrong I reckon. Don't worry about a trabeculoplasty. Totally free and totally painless.Painless holeing from the laser into the Iris maybe 70-80 shoots and it does work--increases drainage from the eye , thus reducing pressure. Reduced Scarlet's IOP (intra Ocular pressure) by a very significant number from 18/20 to 13.. Same with cataract surgery. Nice under local anaesthetic when you can look up and see parts of your eye being taken out. Ha! 15 minutes later you've got a new lens in there. But your pocket book is $400 less.. Sigh. Vitrectomy to remove the vitreous lining at the back of the eye where the macula is located. With age it can shrivel a wee bit and pucker, thus distorting the ability of the lining at the rear of the macula to go flat again.The macula is that spot at the back of the eye where the light focuses and then transmits that image to the brain via the optic nerve. By going flat it lessens the distortions but will NOT arrest the neo-vascularisation of the tiny new blood vessels behind the macula that are causing the problem. ARMD. Age Related Macular degeneration does the damage at the back of the eye and the N/Vascularisation tries to rejuvenate new veins which, in due course, break open because they are gentle and injury prone, and flood the area with fluid, thus pushing up on the macula which distorts the vision. The vitrectomy did not work in Scarlet's case but the operation itself was fascinating. Under local anaesthetic Scarlet was able to see despite having 4 instruments stuffed through the eyeball. Injections of Avastin do reduce the neo-vascularistaion though and in some cases can stop it. But Not in Scarlet's case. Peripheral Irridotomy: no real pain but you feel the laser bolt when it hits you -. THUMP . One in each eye.Opens up a hole in each Iris(the colored part) to improve drainage. and thus reduce pressure in the eyeball. Then these wee holes are there for a whiley--probably a few years. Eye pressure, if rising, reduces the ability of the body to deliver a sufficient supply oxygen to the retinal nerve which starts to die. Once dead it never can be rejuvenated. Therefore it does not deliver the image correctly to the brain and that is why images grow dim and it reduces peripheral (at the sides) image enormously and you can only see well through the centre of the eye until you eventually lose all vision in the eye. Not good for driving. This image is further compromised by the distortions presented to the retinal nerve by the distorted macula and so on and so forth. Now Dr Kevin has put Scarlet on a two- a -day drop regime of new drops to strengthen the retinal nerve.This is a new thing so let's see what develops. That's in addition to the drop- a -day of DuoTrav for pressure reduction. and control. We started off with Travatan Z but he thought maybe we should up the ante to DuoTrav which combines both a fluid which INCREASES the outflow off fluid from the eyball (better drainage) and REDUCES the inflow of fluid into the eyeball. So far so good. Talk to you later . Cheers SP

IHE, especially buses for guys with only one good eye! Like this gentleman who appears to have had a laser peripheral irridotomy in his left eye, a laser trabeculaplasty, four eye injections at $300 a pop, a vitrectomy, a cataract surgery at $400 a pop with one more to come -- and all under local anaesthetic ; fascinating stuff-- ; countless eye pressure tests together with countless OCT (optimal coherence tomography) tests and over 2000 eye drops already with no end in sight to the end of time. and for Scarlet when he comes to town....................

Doofers dad---Hoch! Hoch!

Right On Kirishima. Sounds like a real Hiroshima for the team then. I was thinking along the same lines as you and surmising from past reports about the possibility of a certain self-satisfaction having started up accompanied by a downturn in passion and commitment by this team in general terms. Success always brings complacency until the wake -up call arrives. In my case , in my past business, the wake -up call came and although it had not been too severe it still shook me when I realised that I had lost business but had not been able to go out and replace it as easily as in the past. The problem there is that often the initial momentum has either been downgraded or even lost completely . Then the struggle starts to find a way to regain lost ground--usually that means extra effort and commitment and complete elimination of complacency. Tough going for the inexperienced players since this scenario can sap one's confidence. I am commenting from the reports I have read but only the fans who actually have been attending the matches can pass an opinion on that viz-a-viz the current team. However, in the past there seems to have been a reluctance by our Manager to react swiftly and make even experimental changes in response to downturns or adversity like this and hopefully he will become more decisive.

I've made a point of watching women's International matches here in the wild west. Teams like Mexico, U.S. and Canada and so on have some very good footballers that would do credit to many a men's team. And one thing I do like about it is the fact that there is a lot less histrionics, diving and deliberately rough play. AND these ladies are very fit too, athletic and have a lot of skill. Frankly, for anyone who loves the game of soccer you could do a LOT worse than to watch a good international match on the T.V. Check out the Olympics as well--they are usually very competitive and skilful. As for Mr T. Cowan.....Neanderthal, retrograde and desperate to be controversial . No self-respecting journalist would think of writing such filthy, puerile and ill-informed stuff in any form of public communication newspaper, IMHO at least. And not our very own Chas for sure.

Gotta blood a few of the newbies--just in case......! This will fine-tune the team as well.

Well, I do admit but your progress since then does seem to be fair to middling.

Relax! Terry will not leave until he wins the League. Why? Because the challenge to win big is so tempting and so magnetic that he will never be able to resist it.Being a big fish in a smaller pond is very attractive ..he has never been feted in the way that his present position offers. And,imagine his worth in the marketplace if we win the league and progress dynamically through Europe. And, if we ever get a sniff in the champion's League you will be sure that half the Premiership Managers will be shaking in their boots in case their bosses want to approach Terry the Terror. Manchester United?..Maybe? Why not? That team is slipping and simply does not have the roster now to compete. Rooney will be off within another season since his play is now required to keep this team's head above water, let alone win the league. Or so it seems. David Moyes looks so despondent and is putting on a brave face but, let's face it, if he doesn't start winning, then Alec Ferguson's opinion or not, his job will be in jeopardy by half-way through this season. He looks like a man who feels he has not assessed the job correctly based on the criteria of the present circumstance he now has to face. And, yes, maybe the shoes he filled are too big or he has bitten off more than he can currently chew. But the fans there are so used to being top of the heap etc. that their patience mightalready be wearing thin? As Scotty says, his hacienda above Loch Ness offers tranquility, peace and a retreat from stress and an ideal way to recharge his batteries every day. How envious of him are you? And if he can guide our heroes to the League Title, a cup win and an entry to Europe then he will achieve that emotional high that all winners crave and rightly so. Forget the negative ideas and attitudes from some of the posters on here; I think we are on a winner and so does Terry. I have waited a very long time for this..only 60 years or more so I intend to enjoy it.. POSITIVE, Positive, POSITIVE.

Oh, and, by the way, there is a hyphen between "middle" and "aged". It's always good to keep them apart lest some bright spark on here thinks that you are referring to my middle-aged spread.

Yes! That's what I mean--currently, the world is our oyster. Remember, chums, what Stevenson said about his steam engine..."there is no limit to the speed we could achieve if the engine can be made to stand it..." Yep- onward and upward.

If you researched all that, then you have my admiration, Sneckboy. A really right-down, regular Caley Thistle fan.

How dare you speak about the S.P, like that. IHE?

Believe this--I had a mini dream the other night of Caley Thistle being in the Champions League.

At least, if you are standing there you get the South Westerly gusts on your backs. And if you want I can send you a Canadian Eskimo jacket with the fur on top to protect your neck and head area. Very warm I believe. But it will cost you.

Greenhalgh looks like he will be a real winner as he develops. Lukemackay--your post is thoughtful but a bit over the top so I am going to give it the... bird. Sorry, that suggestion won't... fly.

Nets-like. Crowd- Like. Now that they have seen what they have been missing, hopefully the fans will continue to come to the park and the crowd figures will grow. That way the club will grow.

Caley Thistle will win this game. Yep. You can bet on it.

Very satisfying win. Got over the defeat then. Pipped Celtic again at the top and took advantage , apparently, of a lack-lustre Hibs team to score more goals. At the end of the season all these goals will count. And another big plus for me is the upward trending crowd figure. AT LAST! C'mon in folks. All welcome.

What a relief it is to not have to contend with the two top teams and all the related prejudices and stifling monopoly of the media by them talking about them as if it is a foregone conclusion that one of them will win. But ICT wi8ll have to work very hard to succeed now.

Should take no chances with this one. We need the money in the club and so advancing in this tourney is vita at this stage. Go furrit Terry.

Caley Stand burnt down in ? Thank you, Charles, for reminding me of that date because now I know I was 12 years old as I looked out the back upper windows of my former home at 46 Dunain Road and looked across Howden's nursery, wondering what on earth was going on there as the smoke billowed up and over the stand. Bobby Bolt-- Ah! Toothless Bobby , tanned to the max with sweat pouring down his bronzed face. His son, Bobby I think, also played a couple of games for the Caley but never seemed to make it big. And Rangers' Willie Woodburn, probably regarded as one of the dirtiest players in the League at that time. Eventually he was suspended Sine Die (for life) for a particularly vicious foul I suppose. I did see him once playing at Ibrox in the flesh so to speak and, yes, he did go for the man and most seemed to just crumple in a writhing heap because it was usually not expected. Aye, IHE , them were the days .Fond enough memories of a wee boy advancing into his teens and beyond. Left Inverness at about age 18 to do 2 years National Service and never returned to stay there. Never know what's ahead of you, do you?

YEP! THEIR DEFENCE IS BETTER SO LESS GOALS SCORED AGAINST THEM

Yep, like Ronaldo in the match yesterday, Real Madrid's 5-2 victory . His last goal was sheer wizardry--beats three men in the penalty box and cracks a thunderbolt into the top of the net, from an acute angle, over the bewildered goalie. Breathtaking skill.