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Post by trentt on Mar 12, 2018 18:38:21 GMT 2
Thanks! Back in the LP days, I probably clocked 875 posts a week. On this site I still haven't reached 900 posts in 9 years. So yeah, I'm not exactly prolific anymore.
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Post by trentt on Mar 12, 2018 18:41:22 GMT 2
no, I've got a list of diagnoses but the worst is Fuchs corneal dystrophy. Corneal transplants and a lifelong regimen of anti=rejection drugs could fix that, but my uncontrolled hypertension prohibits them from doing surgery. And without insurance, I won't have the surgery anyway.
Sorry to have hijacked this thread. My bad!
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Post by tzarine on Mar 12, 2018 21:52:39 GMT 2
trentt
sorry to hear hoping the benefits come through
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Post by Voy on Mar 13, 2018 1:32:18 GMT 2
hearing from you is never a bad ! and typos are loved if it means a Trentt post ! good luck with the disability thing = fingers will be braided
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Post by rikita on Mar 13, 2018 3:44:52 GMT 2
trentt - so sorry to hear that things are not going well and that your eyes are getting worse ... hope you will get the benefits soon, and that somehow things get better ...
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Post by rikita on Mar 13, 2018 3:46:42 GMT 2
and i am also always glad to see a post from you!
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 14, 2018 10:27:12 GMT 2
no, I've got a list of diagnoses but the worst is Fuchs corneal dystrophy. ...
I am sorry to hear that.
My wife has that condition, fortunately nothing like so bad.
It was undiagnosed prior to her undergoing cataract surgery. Consequently the corneal endothelium suffered significant damage during surgery and didn't heal, in fact doing the opposite to begin with. It took a full year of treatment to complete the healing process and restore sight to that eye. Now knowing that she has the condition, they managed the surgery to her other eye successfully.
The prognosis is that her vision will get worse, slowly.
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Post by trentt on Mar 14, 2018 23:02:25 GMT 2
Yeah, they told me at my age, the transplants last 10 years in a bit more than half the cases.
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Post by auntieannie on Mar 15, 2018 14:24:34 GMT 2
You do not eat liquorice at all, trentt, right? Its corticosteroid-like effects are cumulative and definitely worsen pre-existing hypertension.
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Post by trentt on Mar 16, 2018 23:49:46 GMT 2
Very rarely. I haven't much of a sweet tooth. In my case, I'm sure it's hereditary. My father, his mother, my mother, her father ... all had strokes and/or heart attacks. My brother is on blood pressure meds, my sister was also hypertensive.
I had a pre-disability-hearing interview with the advocate today. It seems the wait time for a hearing is 18 - 24 months. I don't know how they expect applicants to survive. Cynically, I believe they hope we will not survive until an award date.
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Post by Scrubb on Mar 17, 2018 5:42:16 GMT 2
Trentt! I am horrified and sad to hear your news.
I will email you very soon. Am trying to do it right now, but the internet connection here is terrible and I haven't been able to get my email program to load - been trying for nearly an hour. And even if it finally does load soon, I need to get to bed.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 14, 2020 23:14:43 GMT 2
just found an old lp hong kong guide love the annotations, scribbled notes places now closed fond memories left there's a sense of saudade esp since that hong kong will never exist again
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Post by tzarine on Jan 11, 2021 8:51:45 GMT 2
read the spain lp many detailed notes, esp since we were living there our first trip to donostia the discovery of the mountaintop rollercoaster @ igueldo places we would return to
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Post by tzarine on Jan 10, 2023 21:05:54 GMT 2
found my lp japan! so interesting w notes khaosan inn yayoi museum - matsumoto osaka food recs
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Post by tzarine on Jul 23, 2023 1:34:34 GMT 2
an old pan am guide from the 70s fascinating
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Post by Baz Faz on Jul 23, 2023 11:13:23 GMT 2
I have a guide book to Greece rom the 1950s. In its glossary section it has the Greek for boiled cabbage; it has no Greek word for wine. It makes you wonder if the compiler had actually been to Greece.
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Post by auntieannie on Jul 27, 2023 15:32:25 GMT 2
hmmm.... boiled cabbage. very greek indeed... they must have asked an old scholar in some dank office uni...
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Post by tzarine on Jul 29, 2023 5:09:23 GMT 2
add some potatoes & fry up the next day for bubble & squeak
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Post by auntieannie on Jul 29, 2023 10:40:36 GMT 2
hahaha!
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Post by tzarine on Jul 29, 2023 18:12:01 GMT 2
mine had the ussr facts bout intourist sights in leningrad!
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Post by Voy on Jul 30, 2023 0:10:05 GMT 2
I still have ^ that one And I loved getting a free one when they used info you sent
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Post by tzarine on Jul 30, 2023 19:48:50 GMT 2
lp never did that!
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Post by Voy on Jul 31, 2023 0:26:45 GMT 2
yep - they did ! and gave you credit in the new edition that had the info in it.
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Post by Baz Faz on Aug 10, 2023 23:45:22 GMT 2
A few years ago we were travelling upstream along the Mekong fron Nong Khai. We had the up to date LP guide but found it increasingly useless. Some small towns weren't mentioned at all. Others had no accommodation listed (though we found hotels and guest houses). In one place we stopped there was a 5 year old LP guide. This out of date LP guide was wonderful, mentioning all the towns we had been through with recoomendations of where to stay. LP had given up on being a guide for travellers; it now saw its market as gap year kids and so had lots of information on clubs on Ko Samui etc.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 11, 2023 1:10:45 GMT 2
so true, baz before lp had info for single women & families
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Post by Netsuke on Aug 12, 2023 9:42:20 GMT 2
I loved how the older LP books had a nice, thick glossy map for the frontispiece, the newer ones didn’t. Although some did have a thin bit of flimsy paper with a map which was hard to read because the printing on the page behind came through.
When in Vietnam, I met up with a lass from elsewhere, we got to talking as you do and compared guide books. Mine was a few years old with a wealth of information, hers was brand new, with a lot less information.
This brings back the memories of the Vietnamese massage! We both agreed we disliked the slapping and the touchy hands! This was in the shower too!
And then there was what happened afterward! ….
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Post by auntieannie on Aug 13, 2023 14:52:15 GMT 2
I think, when I first visited India, I must have met a bunch of TTers at a pissup somewhere in Kerala. I must say, I didn't find my people in that group.
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Post by Voy on Aug 13, 2023 15:31:24 GMT 2
I keep the old ones because the info on "the sites" is still good ( better than the new ones ) and for hotels and stuff - now we have the internet .
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Post by rikita on Aug 21, 2023 20:15:03 GMT 2
for albania now i bought a bradt guide - there was no lp for albania in english or german (though there is one in spanish and in french, for some reason) ... could have bought a german guide book, too, i suppose ... anyway, one thing i noticed was they started with the most expensive hotels and restaurants, then moving to cheaper - at least in older lps that is the other way around, is it still? i also thought they had far less of the cheaper options than i am used to, but no idea what that is like with lp these days ... and yeah, of course there is the internet for accommodation, but sometimes i still like going by what it says in the guide book, to get an idea about places or to chose when there are many ... the site descriptions of course could usually be found online, too ... the part that i find most important (despite the internet) is usually the getting there or getting around section ... and just in general getting a bit of an idea what places might be most interesting (of course, there are lists of that online, too, but then i've seen some of those suggesting itineraries that'd mean you spend more time in the car/train than at actual places (like this one really amuses me: etramping.com/the-ultimate-one-week-germany-itinerary/)
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Post by OnlyMark on Aug 21, 2023 22:07:23 GMT 2
Rikita, I drove through Albania Easter this year. Just stopped at two places though, Kruje and Schkoder.
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