I’m non-BPD and I have a totally honest question with no judgment.
When someone with BPD gets disregulated and falls into a very dark place, how much insight is there to want to return to baseline? My friend will crashout and be stuck and looping in a terrible place for days. It has to feel crushing but must be so hard to escape from it.
This family photo was taken in 1959 at UVA. I was trying to identify the old well to see if it still exists on campus. I thought the rooms and railings across the roof edge looked just like the ones on The Lawn. But there are no white columns in front of the building. I searched the UVA online archives as well as G** Earth but can't find an area that looks like this.
Hey everyone.
Three days ago I had my 2^(ND) Core FOV done by Dr. Shakir and my gray octopus is completely gone, no frill--- I now have a PAIR of floater-free eyes! It’s been almost 2 years since the PVDs which gave me floaters and to finally have clear vision again is beyond words.
My path was slightly derailed when I had a retinal tear just after my 1^(st) FOV last September, which healed properly. Then, a fast-moving cataract appeared and I had the natural lens replaced with an IOL four 4 weeks ago. This journey from FOV-->TEAR-->CATARACT on one eye seemed scary and mysterious at first. But now that I’m on the other side – it’s morphed into a having a few boring, routine procedures. As Aldo Raine said: “It ain’t so bad”.
NOTE: Shakir is pioneering the use of Core FOVs for a long-ignored segment of the population. My hope and belief is one day the Floater-Only Vitrectomy will become a simple outpatient procedure covered by insurance. Pulsemedica looks promising and when its available there will be two solutions out there. To the sufferers: There's HOPE!