In need of an opinion...

[ellenscult]

ravenlas had laser eye surgery on Friday. He went to the Vision Optical (sorry!) Express clinic in Leeds and they were very good. Only... they popped in the anaesthetic drops one eye straight after the other. By the time the drop went into the other eye, it was already watering. So when they came to cut the flap, his left eye wasn't properly anaesthetised. He worried everyone in the waiting room - including myself - by saying *extremely loudly* that he was in a lot of pain. The procedure seems to have gone okay, though, and after a traumatic trip home in which the sun caused even more pain through his darkest sunglasses and closed eyes, he's doing fine. His vision's good, his eyes are healing up just fine. It's been a touch stressful, though, and predictably, I've been very tired today.

So, knitting. I've got a lot done Friday and yesterday. I bought some Debbie Bliss Donegal Tweed which I thought might make a better sleeve, so now I have a sleeve done in that and one done in Debbie Bliss Rialto Aran.

- Which do you think? Either? Neither? I'm not convinced. So not convinced that I spent today starting to knit a shopping bag instead.

Been a bit headachey to go with the tired, but I also spent a good while soaking in the bath, and this evening we used up the huge pile of veg in a chicken stew and garlic potatoes. Yum! And Transformers is on the tv.

Thank you, o_faolain, for the CD - I'll be putting it onto my ipod tomorrow. :)

Work tomorrow. *sigh*

Comments

[black-faery.livejournal.com]

The bag looks awesome :-)

I'm inclined to say neither for the sleeves, sadly. I think a darker tone of the existing body would look better. But that's just my opinion *grins*

[ellenscult]

Thank you!

*sigh* Teaches me to make sure I have enough wool before starting knitting... I'm tempted to pull it all back and start again with completely different wool because the pattern is ace. Ho hum, never mind! Part of the reason I knit is displacement activity, part because it calms me down. And it's done that, so it's not a complete waste of time...

[john-the-hat.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, both myself and Lady Blue have had laser surgery, so if you want to bounce queries, then feel free.

My write-up of the whole experience is here, if he's interested..

http://www.littleteapot.org.uk/wah/Laser%20Treatment%20log.pdf

[john-the-hat.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, do you mean optical express?

[ellenscult]

Yar, that's the one! I'll correct that...

[ellenscult]

Thank you! I've pointed him at that link.

Yeah, you're one of the reasons he considered having it done in the first place, along with medains and most recently John Denholm. He's doing okay, got lots of eye drops, says that his vision right now is better than he's ever had with contact lenses. It's a little sharper in the right than the left; the right was a far worse prescription, but the left is the one which had astigmatism corrected. Hopefully it'll all heal up with no problems! Gotta say, though, given my prescription's tiny anyway and having seen what he's gone through, I don't think it'll ever be worth my having it done. :)

[ultharkitty.livejournal.com]

Correcting astigmatism? I didn't even realise that was possible (I was told it wasn't possible by my optician. Although that could just be because my eyes are weird, I dunno).

[john-the-hat.livejournal.com]

Aye. Both Lady Blue and I had astigmatism, mine was minor, but Lady Blue's was reasonably high, both corrected fine initially, however whilst mine had retain the super vision I had after surgery lady Blue's has regressed slightly to about 20/20 in one eye.

[ellenscult]

It's a newer procedure, I think, and costs more. Jerry had the laser flap with laser surgery and waveform and night vision correction and goodness knows what. Bells and whistles, yes, and expensive, but then again, it's his eyesight and how much is that worth? A heck of a lot! :)

[ultharkitty.livejournal.com]

My brain tells me neither. Perhaps something in a darker purple? The lilac, imo, is a better match than the pink, though.


Best of luck to ravenlas for his recovery. I hope everything heals quickly and the surgery did exactly what he wants it to have done.

[ellenscult]

I have an entire cone of non-tweedy burgundy merino wool. I'm tempted to knit it from scratch in that...

Thank you! He says 'No! I can't fire lasers out of my eyes!' *heh*

[ru-salki99.livejournal.com]

I like the rialto arran. But the bag is very cool. Oh thanks for sending me that other pattern. I plan to start tackling it as soon as I can get some yarn.

he went for eye surgery *shudders* Ever since I saw that episode of The Simpsons where Homer got it done, never used his eyedrops and his eyes crusted over (i feel sick just thinking about it), I just get the heeby jeebies at the thought of getting it done.

[ellenscult]

Thank you! Np - I hope you enjoy it, and I hope the pattern makes sense to you.

Eep! I must have missed that episode! *shudder* Sounds horrific!

[ru-salki99.livejournal.com]

Well actually... it was rather hilarious :)

[jennifleur.livejournal.com]

Hope ravenlas heals quickly! Sorry it didn't go so smoothly for him. I completely understand having had a similar procedure started before the anesthetic kicked in - OUCH!

The shopping bag looks like it's gonna be really cute. (Sheepishly agrees with others here about the sweater. Sorry, I'm not fond of either one... a darker color would've been better though for the sleeves, though I think I'd prefer my sleeves to match anyway.) 8^D

[ellenscult]

*wince* Ouch! I'm sorry you had that too - it sounds awful! :(

I'm having difficulty finding *anything* that goes with that yarn. Either the colour's just plain wrong or, as with the Rialto Aran, the colour's not right and the texture is very wrong. *sigh* Never mind, eh? :)

[pds-lit.livejournal.com]

Neither of the sleeves appeal to me, I agree with you on not being convinced. What is the original yarn? Have you thought of googling it and seeing if anyone has a few skeins for sale? I just hate being negative about things! Look on Ravelry to see if anyone has some stashed and ask if they would sell you some. Hey, ya never know!

Hope ravenlas heals quickly.

[ellenscult]

The original yarn is Sirdar Donegal Tweed DK (SH176) which was (apparently) discontinued in 2005. Ebay and Ravelry don't have it and a Google search hasn't turned up anything either. Ho hum! Never mind - I have plenty more wool in my stash. I'm very tempted just to pull this back completely and start again using either the 1800m King Cole burgundy merino wool I have stashed, or the Enigma Silk Heather, although that's much finer and I'd have to double-knit it.

[pds-lit.livejournal.com]

This gal says on her yarn list that she carries Sidar Donegal Tweed, you could email her:
http://www.baadeckyarns.com/index.htm

Granted she may not have taken it off her list or updated her site but it is worth a try.

[ellenscult]

Thank you! I've just sent her an email... and got one back saying no, all out of stock. Ho hum, never mind! Thanks so much for the link, though - they have some beautiful yarns.

[pds-lit.livejournal.com]

Oh well, it was worth a try.

[ellenscult]

It always is. :)

[ellenscult]

Thank you - I think I'm going to pull it back and knit it in something else entirely. Which means I'll have a pile of purple yarn with which to knit something else. Smaller. :) Maybe I'll remake this in a kids size for one of my neices...

Thanks - having seen it done (although, yanno, not the actual procedure), I'm thinking it's not for me. I'm glad my prescription's tiny!