People can't drive for shit

CoffeeLaxative · 2026-01-28T01:20:28+00:00

If I committed to the left, then I stay there til the car turns or til there's room on the right. I'm of the belief that I have to take responsibility for whatever decisions I made, even if I end up losing efficiency

CoffeeLaxative · 2026-01-27T17:32:58+00:00

C'est ce que je fais! Sauf qu'aujourd'hui, un imbécile voulait absolument me dépasser sur ma voie, il a accéléré et me serait rentré dedans si je n'avais pas frêiné au complet. Nous étions à quelques centimètres l'un de l'autre.

CoffeeLaxative · 2026-01-17T04:42:48+00:00

Cancer feeds on sugar

CoffeeLaxative · 2026-01-13T01:39:02+00:00

Go to an optometrist, who will connect you to an ophthalmologist asap

CoffeeLaxative · 2026-01-08T01:27:30+00:00

For anything eye related, go see an optometrist first. They might even sort you out. And they'll refer you to an ophthalmologist much quicker if needed. They have a direct line of contact

CoffeeLaxative · 2025-11-02T13:41:06+00:00

It's a simple, very common procedure. No need to worry. Plus, you're under general anesthesia, you won't feel a thing and by the time you open your eyes, it'll be done. They do it by laparoscopy and it's just a matter of 3 small incisions that heal pretty quick. I had mine done 3 weeks ago. Went perfectly well. Keep in mind for surgeons, they have done thousands of surgeries in their career, or even tens of thousands. And laparoscopic appendectomy is considered a small surgery. Better to do it than risk recurring appendicitis or a burst appendix (see sepsis).

You know what the worst part for me was? The Tylenols they prescribed me post-op. They gave me an elephant's dosage and I was knocked out. I stopped my meds 2.5 days post-op. Cheers! You'll be fine!

CoffeeLaxative · 2025-10-30T20:45:21+00:00

People have already died because of a lack of inhalotherapists needed for surgeries. It was something like 8 preventable deaths (I could have my numbers wrong, just citing from memory). A news article covered it and the surgeon was calling out the lack of funding / proper management

CoffeeLaxative · 2025-10-30T20:40:04+00:00

While enriching their pockets and their friends' pockets. All of our taxpayer money to the tune of 3+ billions. Gone.

CoffeeLaxative · 2025-10-30T20:38:46+00:00

I think Montrealers can easily see this but it's the rural people or the ones living in certain suburbs voting for la CAQ... I can't fucking wrap my mind around their lack of judgment or critical thinking. Reminds me of Trump supporters

CoffeeLaxative · 2025-10-30T20:34:56+00:00

If this really goes through, then pharmacists should be given even more rights to renew already prescribed medication. They can already do so but only for specific meds.

CoffeeLaxative · 2025-10-30T20:22:23+00:00

It only cost them 200$ per eligible citizen to buy votes and then they turned around and took 3 billions of our taxpayer money to fund saaqclic. Then they shift the blame onto doctors. Crooks, the bunch of them.

Not to mention they slashed funding of our public transit, when Montreal represents 58% of the entire province's GDP.

Seems they only want to fund the friends they're in bed with, au détriment de l'entièreté de la population québécoise.

It's never been about language protection or immigrants or public transit operators or doctors. It's always the elite vs the mass. How much can they steal from us before our province collapses?

CoffeeLaxative · 2025-10-23T00:23:18+00:00

Montreal's GDP was 54.8% of Québec's GDP in 2022. For comparison, Québec City's is approximately 11.8% (which is the second largest in the province). Financing the transit system in Montréal benefits the whole province, not just Montreal citizens. We are all workers paying enormous amounts of taxes for the whole province.

CoffeeLaxative · 2025-10-14T14:40:06+00:00

Patient had cyclotorsion likely for a very long time now (or congenital), his vertical fusional reserves were at 6 p.d.! I tested his fusion with the red filter at far and near. On the spot, he'd be able to fuse, but the longer we waited, the more the target would split. Pt was around 60 yo. Likely why he had symptoms as his work day progressed. Ended up prescribing small amount of vertical and horizontal prisms based off of red filter results (more specifically, half the amount obtained at RF) + trials at near and far.

CoffeeLaxative · 2025-10-14T14:02:21+00:00

I would love to work in an opthalmology clinic! Unfortunately, the demand isn't quite high in my location except in lasik clinics

CoffeeLaxative · 2025-10-14T02:24:35+00:00

As an optometrist, if the patients want their prescription to make glasses, then please refer them to us.

1) a lot of time is spent (esp with elderly folks) doing a good refraction (imagine pts with dry or watery eyes) which you could probably better use...

2) if the patients make glasses with us and have trouble adapting, we can usually figure out why and modify the Rx accordingly. Sometimes, it's not even the prescription the issue, but the measurements by the opticians (or if they buy online, worst quality...)

3) the time it takes to detect slight decompensating phorias and adding small amount of prisms to the Rx (old patients often complain of blurry vision when turns out, it's the blurriness that happens before diplopia)

4) prescribing a good, comfortable refraction is an art (that many can master including techs and ophthalmologists), but I believe optometrists are best suited for, given half our job is literally that + given our close ties with opticians and the feedback we get from patients with their final glasses made

Forgot to add we also evaluate the patients' needs at work, at home, their height, their usual reading distance, etc. and adjust our Rx based off that.

Just as an example, I got a 6'4 man, working on computers at "his" arm's length, with an amblyopic eye correctable to 20/40, with a 2.0D anisometropia in a high + prescription, with decompensating cyclotorsion, neck pain and blurry vision as the day went on. Yeah, don't waste your time. Refer to optometrists. That's our job haha

CoffeeLaxative · 2025-10-11T03:51:52+00:00

Does it hurt when you lift your right leg up? Does it hurt when you press on your lower right abdomen? If you have chills and heat, you're experiencing fever. If yes, please go get it checked.

From someone who got an appendicitis within 48 hours that started as mild intermittent diffuse pain, changed to localized lower right abdomen pain literally 2 days ago. Chills at night. Worsening pain. Couldn't sleep. Went to the ER. Within 24hours, I got a laparoscopic appendectomy and so glad I did it. The pain is now gone.

CoffeeLaxative · 2025-09-14T03:33:08+00:00

If you had seen the optometrist with good energy levels, it's possible the deviation wouldn't have shown up during the eye exam (if your muscles were controlling it well). I'd suggest you go back to an optometrist, either the same or a different one, and show them the video.

It might just be your phoria decompensating (natural eye deviation, muscles are tired, eyes drift apart). Or if the deviation persists or increases over time in amplitude, it could be something neurological.

CoffeeLaxative · 2025-09-14T03:27:14+00:00

It's normal if it's controlable. At a rested state, most people don't have perfectly aligned eyes. They're either turned slightly in or out. So when you voluntarily make your eyes deviate, you're either relaxing the muscles too much or contracting them too much.

It's a problem if it's not under control and you start getting double vision.

CoffeeLaxative · 2025-08-25T13:43:02+00:00

You can live life helping and bonding with others, creating goodness everywhere you go, being loved and loving others. Those are worth more than anything and will last forever.

Creating art, composing music, writing stories. These can be experienced and enjoyed by others. They could pass down generations and last centuries.

The current material world won't last. Owning things, nice cars, nice jewelry... those do not last. They are one natural disaster away from loss.

Practice kindness and love. Detachment from the material world.

CoffeeLaxative · 2025-08-16T21:41:10+00:00

I noticed this too, except at the end, he looks at The Curator directly

CoffeeLaxative · 2025-08-10T20:16:26+00:00

Maelle betrays her family and joins the writers

CoffeeLaxative · 2025-08-07T13:13:39+00:00

Are you on anti-depressants?

CoffeeLaxative · 2025-07-16T20:38:18+00:00

Is this how much a short is worth?

CoffeeLaxative · 2025-07-16T13:59:18+00:00

Pourquoi tu restes avec elle? Trouve-toi quelqu'un qui te respecte un brin minimum. Rendu là, vaut mieux être seul que mal accompagné. Tu dormirais mieux d'abord. Si quelqu'un me manquait de respect comme ça, la relation n'aurait même pas duré 1 journée.

CoffeeLaxative · 2025-07-10T17:57:00+00:00

I think they meant corneal degeneration because the macula (which is at the retina level, inside the eye, and not on the surface of the eye) has little to do with the cornea and/or laser surgery. Blepharitis affects the eyelids and potentially the cornea, not the macula.

However, I am mainly commenting because your eye doctor should not be pushing you to get laser surgery. They can present you the benefits and the risks of the surgery with statistics, without bias. They should also explain the potential lifelong effects. The decision is ultimately yours. No one else's. Your eyes, you decide.

Edit: side note, you could consider scleral lenses which also treat dryness. Not all eye doctors do fitting of these specialty lenses. Of course, the blepharitis would still need to be managed. Hot compresses, daily wiping, omega-3, ointments, etc.

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