Ocular prosthesis Puns

I'm located in Northern California and I can not find a company that will take insurance, or not charge a couple thousand for a 3d prosthetic eye. If anyone has any leads I would be grateful for the information, My google-fu is failing me on this search. Any company between Medford Oregon and Sacramento would be considered.

Hi there,

To begin I am just going to introduce myself and say what's been going on. I've never been able to fully see out of my right eye and I am going to get a prosthetic eye soon. I am 17 and going into my senior year in high school. All my life I've had congenital glaucoma in my right eye, along with other complications. My past of surgeries is rough and the biggest one I had was in 2018, which didn't go well and gave me a form of long term photophobia, pain and, to me, a loss of "normality".

I've always got comments on how my right eye looked. I tried not to pay any attention to it but in middle school I was called "fish eye". I lost most of my high school years to my eye problems and surgeries, and now I hope it won't effect me getting my drivers license. I am told that my prosthetic will look almost exactly like my other eye.

Eventually, I had my last and recent surgery which was for the pain and photophobia and it worked out fine, and I don't hurt as much anymore. I didn't have much vision to begin with but now it's just gone in my right eye after all of that.

I am now going to have to replace my right eye with a prosthetic. I've known this was going to happen for the past year but I still don't feel ready. I never really thought this would be as emotionally painful and anxiety inducing as it is. I am getting a whole organ removed... and one that my family and I desperately tried to "fix" for so long. It's an awful feeling.

The actual process and going into surgery is a whole different monster to fight too. I am afraid it will hurt a lot or it's going to make me feel sick. I am also not too excited about having to wear a large bandage on my face before I get my actual prosthetic...

I wanted to ask if anyone who has had to go through eye removal/get a prosthetic eye some things:

- How did you initially cope with the anxiety relating to eye removal?

- How does it effect your everyday life? Do people notice?

- Are you still affected by the loss long after having the surgery?

I apologize if this post seems too vent-like. I just need an outlet to talk about this type of thing. I have never met anyone struggling with eye problems like I am, and especially at my age. I was hoping I could find out if anyone was feeling the same way that I do. Thank you for reading this if you did and thank you in advance if you respond.

TLDR: I have had a congenital disease in my right eye and after a long history of surgeries I am going to get a

Hi all, I am new to the sub-reddit because my eye has never really held me back. Had a prosthetic eye for about 15 years now. I am currently serving in the British Army. Because its my left I can still do everything without a problem.

I have always fancied boxing, but getting a bit old for that I'm looking at getting into a bit of martial arts. Not necessarily competing but for my fitness. My question is; If I want to spar what are the options for me, I'm not sure how much a punching the eye would be compared to having a real eye. Is there like a rubber sports version I could use? Is this available on the NHS?

I really hate this is holding me back so hopefully someone has been in a similar situation and already solved it.

Thanks in advance and keep it real people. :-).

I'm just trying to figure out whether I have this condition or not. I will be bringing this up with a psychiatric professional as soon as I can, but it's not an option at the moment. I was hoping the people of this community could give me some insight.

I'll start by saying I'm a trans man. I've completed parts of my transition, and I know what dysphoria feels like, and the severe depression that comes with it. I know the amazing relief after parts of a transition have been completed. I don't know if I'm experiencing dysphoria about my eye. I just think it would be cool. Ever since I was a kid I've had this vague desire to lose parts of my body. I remember creating OCs that were amputees or paralyzed and they represented me. I remember fantasizing about how I would still play video games even with missing fingers. I did a bunch of research on amputees and their experiences. I've always wanted to drive a wheelchair for just a few minutes. I've even ridden around WalMart in one of those motorized carts, which I should have left for someone who actually needed it. I actually lied to my friends about having back pain so I could use it in from of them. I remember getting nasty looks for being a young person on the motorized cart but for some reason my thoughts were 'fuck you, I deserve to be on this thing more than you.' I've always thought prosthetics looked cool and interesting. Throughout my life I've made lists of body parts I would be okay losing, like parts of my fingers, my whole left leg below the knee, etc. I always thought being deaf in one ear would be neat and even pretended to be deaf occasionally. I saw a man with a prosthetic leg limping a certain way and I tried to copy him to make it look like I had a prosthetic under my jeans. I think most people have tried this at some point, but I've also spent a lot of time with my eyes closed or covered, just to see how well I would do if I went blind.

It's never been focused around a single area of my body or specific disability until recently. Those lists I made of limbs I would be willing to lose were based on what I could lose and still function normally, like I wouldn't even notice most of the time that something is missing. Over the past couple years I've decided if I were to willingly lose a body part, it would be my left eye. I could still see and do everything normally, but I'd have my less good eye gone and a cool glass eye in its place. Nobody would know until I told them. Like a secret little

Right now, these secondary characters are in a weird limbo of "not useless extras" and "cardboard cutouts", and it's just annoying. Not because I'm dying to learn more about them, but because it's clear the show wants us to care and connect with them without putting in the work. We get a reaction shot here, a small joke there, the occasional unearned "emotional" scene where these people hug a tree or encourage Tilly to say yes, it's all so trite.

I'm going to list off the names of these glorified extras and describe them in order of who we know the most about, all off the top of my head, no jokes or facetiousness.

1. Keyla Detmer. Helmsman of Discovery. She previously served aboard the Shenzou with Burnham, Saru and Prime Georgiou before getting injured in the Battle of the Binary Stars. She now has a cybernetic implant, or some sort of ocular prosthesis. She is an ace pilot. In Season 3, she suffers from PTSD as a result of a very close call after exiting the time vortex, but has managed to get a grasp on it (at least somewhat). She is close friends with Owo. Detmer seems to be a fun, easygoing person but can stay cool in tricky situations.
2. Joann Owosekunn. I learned yesterday that she is the navigator of Discovery. She was raised in a luddite colony, where they harvested underwater crops. As a result, she can hold her breath for a considerable amount of time. She is very supportive of her friend Detmer.
3. Nilsson. Lieutenant aboard Discovery. I think she coordinates spore jumps. Saru left her in charge when he and Michael Burnham were not onboard, yet she was not considered for the position of First Officer.
4. Rhys. Weapons officer of Discovery. He would like to vacation in Hawaii.
5. Bryce. Communications officer of Discovery.
6. Bonus Round: Airiam. Fancy looking cyborg serving on Discovery. I think she coordinated spore jumps. She has to organize her memories, making space regularly. We learn she had a husband. The only episode in which we learn anything about her is the same episode she is killed off.

To be totally fair, this was all from memory. Maybe I missed some things that flesh them out a bit more, but even if I did I don't think it would really matter. Detmer is the strongest character of the bunch, and she is still really bland. After 3 entire seasons, this is all I got from them. Instead of comparing these characters to secondaries from other Star Trek shows, I'm going to compare Discovery as a modern prestige tv show

I was reminded of this incident yesterday during a phone call with a friend from my college days. For a little background, my friend (I'll call her Jill) and I were both about 19 or 20 years old at the time of the incident in 1983 (do the math, and yes, I'm that old). Because Jill was blind (ocular melanoma, important later), she had an advocate (there is another name for this but for the life of me I can't think of what it is, but you get the idea) that went everywhere with her on the university campus. They made sure she made it safely to and from each of her classes and assisted her with test taking, etc. We met when Jill walked by my table in the Student Union Hall, bumped my coffee, and spilled it all over both of us. We've been friends ever since. Because Jill lived off campus with her parents and I lived in an off campus apartment a few blocks away, I drove every day to school. We coordinated our class schedules so that I could drop her off to her advocate in the morning and in the afternoon, the advocate would bring her to me and I would take her home.

This one particular semester, Jill's last class on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday ended an hour before mine. Normally her advocate would hang out with her in the Student Union Hall to wait for me. Since it was Friday, Jill insisted that the advocate bring her to the building where I had class and she would just wait for me there (closer to where I parked the car) and the advocate could go home a little early. This was something Jill did occasionally just to be nice. I always took the same route out of the building and knew to be on the lookout for her.

This day, Jill was in her usual spot in the lobby. She was sitting on the floor (there were no seats) with her back against the wall, her cane folded beside her, tinted glasses on, and appearing to stare straight ahead. To Jill's left were the lobby doors, about 30 feet away.

Jill thinks she'd been sitting there for maybe 50-55 minutes when she heard what sounded like squeaky wheels rolling over the floor. She didn't bother to call out and just thought it was maybe the janitorial staff with those mop buckets on wheels getting an early start on mopping. Then she heard someone push the panic bar on one of the lobby's double doors and the wheels banging over the metal threshold. A moment later, a woman's voice filled the empty lobby.

The conversation that ensued is to the best of Jill's and my memory.

EP: What the hell is wrong with you young people

(Español abajo) Hi! I was born with microphthalmia and I wear an ocular prosthesis (ocular shell or scleral shell) in my left eye. My current prosthesis is starting to bother me and I would like to have a new one. I am a legal resident in Spain, I arrived tob Barcelona in 2019 and at this time I have a Sanitas health insurance (Sanitas Plus Salud), additionally I am registered in CatSalut. I would like to know if anyone has any information or experience on this. (Approximate prices, if the insurance covers something, times, comfort, etc). Greetings! ——— Hola! Nací con microftalmia y uso una prótesis ocular (Cascarilla ocular o concha escleral) en mi ojo izquierdo. Mi prótesis actual me está comenzando a incomodar y quisiera hacerme una nueva. Soy residente legal en España, llegué a Barcelona el 2019 y en este momento cuento con póliza de Sanitas (Sanitas Plus Salud), adicionalmente estoy registrado en CatSalut. Quisiera saber si alguien tiene alguna información o experiencia en esto. (Precios aproximados, si el seguro cubre algo, tiempos, comodidad, etc). Saludos!

Phil

Go post NSFW jokes somewhere else. If I can't tell my kids this joke, then it is not a DAD JOKE.

If you feel it's appropriate to share NSFW jokes with your kids, that's on you. But a real, true dad joke should work for anyone's kid.

Mods... If you exist... Please, stop this madness. Rule #6 should simply not allow NSFW or (wtf) NSFL tags. Also, remember that MINORS browse this subreddit too? Why put that in rule #6, then allow NSFW???

Please consider changing rule #6. I love this sub, but the recent influx of NSFW tagged posts that get all the upvotes, just seem wrong when there are good solid DAD jokes being overlooked because of them.

Thank you,

A Dad.

Well, toucan play at that game.

Martin Freeman, and Andy Serkis.

They also play roles in Lord of the Rings.

I guess that makes them the Tolkien white guys.

She said apple-lutely

'Eye-do'

This is my first post pls don't kill me lol.

The people in the comment section is why I love this subreddit!!

Cred once again my sis wants credit lol

I heard parents named their children lance a lot.

First post please don't kill me

Edit: i went to sleep and now my inbox is dead, thank you kind strangers for the awards!

TL;DR All the main characters likely have some degree of cybernetic (or genetic or nanobot based) enhancement. The powers-that-be are using cybernetics, gene editing and nanobots to augment individuals as living weapons in the ongoing solar system spanning civil war.

I'm not quite sure what to spoiler for a series which came out 2 decades ago, minor spoilers for the movie and series throughout, but I've tried to use spoiler tags for the parts later in the series and most of the stuff in the movie.

“I don’t believe you are just some average bounty hunter, Spike Spiegel.”

Beautiful, meaningful, jazzy, unique and tragically cut short. Cowboy Bebop is in a class of its own. I think there is the outline of a larger story in the existing episodes, focused on transhumanism, human experimentation and the ongoing civil war in the solar system. I watched the whole series and the movie recently and this was at the back of my mind, especially when thinking about how the crew escapes any consequences between episodes.

Transhumanism in the Bebop-verse

The Bebop crew and many of the villains are transhuman and augmented in some way. Just canonically we see:

1. Spike has a cybernetic eye, which is shown in a number of episodes (session 6 is the most notable).

2. Jet's arm and much of his torso are replaced with a cybernetic prosthesis. He could have these issues healed, but chooses not to. He routinely uses his arm to great effect in combat. These augementations were done by the ISSP after he was gravely injured in the events mentioned in session 16.

3. Ein's genetic enhancements as a 'data dog' have greatly increased his cognitive abilities. He made a winning move in Shogi a few times, solved multiple mysteries and was used as the proxy for a human mind in Brain Scratch.

4. Faye is resurrected from deep cryogenic storage, and presumably brought back from clinical death.

>!5) Mad Pierrot has been driven mad by his augmentation. He can fly unaided and has a shield system which is protective against small arms fire and explosives (session 20).!<

>!6) Vincent Volaju is immune to nano-bot attacks and has his brain damaged by this nanoswarm which inhabits his body. He crushed Spike’s ribs with his bare hands. Also: “We [Spike and Vincent] share the same soul.” !<

7. In the episode Brain Scratch we see a paralyzed person with a direct mind computer interface as the puppeteer behind Dr. Londes.

**Some inferences, which are not confirm

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Old Neeeeiiiiighvy

10+10 is twenty and 11+11 is twenty too

A buck-an-ear!

I Thank ye kind Matey for the booty! I be truly overwhelmed! Thank you!

Holy cow! Thank you everyone for the upvotes and awards! I wasn’t expecting this!

He should have a good vowel movement. His next diaper change could spell disaster though.

Making it all the way home and realizing that they forgot one of the containers:

Riceless

That was the punchline

Without missing a beat he asks "Daddy, do you know how much room you need to grow Fungi like that?"

I did not know.

So he tells me "as Mushroom as possible!"

So proud.

Feyonce

He was so brave and even tried to encourage us, the family around him, with his last breaths. He kept whispering to us to Be Positive.

He said, “Change the batteries in your hearing aid”.

She was pretty mad when I only picked seven up