Thursday, April 09, 2009

Ophthalmologist

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Took dad to his ophthalmologist appointment today and found out he's got age-related macular degeneration. Well... he's 86 after all. Apparently his condition was bad enough for the doctor to give him laser treatment right away. After that, the 2 small bottles of eye drops he needs cost just under $80. Robbery!

The clinic was disproportionally short in chairs with mostly seniors waiting. The wait time was over half an hour. I was uncomfortable hanging around and ended up walking across the street to a dollar store in Metrotown, to continue hunting for cheap material for Miki's doll stuff. All the info about dad was related to me through mom later, but she tends to exaggerate. Hmm... perhaps I should have stayed.

Dad was reusing toilet paper again. How many time have we told him not to? Does he just not want to listen, or completely forgotten common sense?

And... he answered a phone call (a very rare thing) with the caller asking for mom. She was out picking up the eye drops. Dad seemed to know the caller and talked for a bit. 5 minutes later I asked him who called. He couldn't remember.

And... somehow he cut all the bananas loose. Don't know why. Now we can't hang them. Great...

He has the weird habit of opening the front door and look outside for a bit before locking the door every night. Tonight he did it twice.

Yesterday mom asked him to hang the finished laundry on the laundry line, but he put everything back into the washing machine instead.

Sigh... the fact that he's still up and running is amazing for his age, but all these things are too much for me to deal with.

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