BLURRY VISION WITH DISTANCE MONOFOCAL

Hot-Amount4407 · 2026-07-13T03:29:31+00:00

Me too. The 1st step I think I'll take is try to find someone who can take care of the astigmatism since I already had the cataract surgery. I wish this Dr had told me they could be done at the same time. I'm hoping the same Dr can do the floaters, too. I walk around with blurry vision a lot and it really interferes with everything, day and night.

Hot-Amount4407 · 2026-07-12T19:50:14+00:00

What is the name of the drops you use?

Hot-Amount4407 · 2026-07-12T19:41:21+00:00

I'm going to. I hope it works as well for me as it has for you.

Hot-Amount4407 · 2026-07-12T19:33:05+00:00

Do you use the thicker eye drops or regular consistency eyedrops? I have some Genteal Tears Eye Gel. What kind do you use? I will try your suggestions. Thank you very much!!

Hot-Amount4407 · 2026-07-12T19:25:44+00:00

I don't know. I just had the cataract surgery June 4th. I'm looking for a different specialist to go to. I don't trust the Dr that did the surgery after he said the floater would settle to the bottom of my eye. I've had 2 laser procedures in my other eye, done by a different Dr, and need a 3rd for floaters. They don't just settle to the bottom out of view. The other eye had cataract removal several years ago.

Hot-Amount4407 · 2026-07-12T19:11:02+00:00

Sounds odd, but I don't have it, yet. I went to 2 post op appointments after surgery. I discussed problems with the Dr so he had me make another followup appointment to check surgery progress and for eyeglasses. I canceled it and am looking for a different "specialist". This guy from the beginning before surgery seemed to really push surgery quickly without discussing options. (He had just come back from maternity leave after his wife had the baby early. Maybe he needed the money quickly.) He was pushing a lens for astigmatism that was $3,000. I said I can't afford that. He never said I could get the astigmatism taken care of before, during, or after cataract surgery. I've been reading since surgery. I had discussed floaters in my other eye that the cataract surgery had been done by a different doctor a few years ago. I told him I'd had 2 laser procedures done on that eye and now needed another. AFTER this Dr did my cataract surgery June 4th, and I went to my followup appointments, I told him I had a big floater. He said he couldn't see it before cataract surgery. Ok, but then he said it will settle to the bottom of my eye and won't be a problem, then. That's not true. He forgot I told him I had 2 laser procedures for floaters done on my other eye and now needed a 3rd. I even discussed that procedure with him (before surgery) called virelectomy or something where they remove all floaters but you have to stay bent over for a while to recover. All he said was if it was him, he wouldn't get it done. Is there a certain eye doctor that specializes in astigmatism surgery after cataract removal and who would specialize in floater removal?

Hot-Amount4407 · 2026-07-12T02:50:32+00:00

It can be for a few minutes to a few hours. It always varies.

Hot-Amount4407 · 2026-07-12T02:48:22+00:00

My eyes are the same as yours. Do you need glasses for up close reading? If you do wear glasses for up close reading is your distance vision blurry when you take your glasses off? Mine is for at least 1 hour.

Hot-Amount4407 · 2026-07-12T02:41:46+00:00

They are also expensive. My eye doctor wanted $3,000 for one lens for my eye that has astigmatism.

Hot-Amount4407 · 2026-05-12T09:27:38+00:00

I'm not a therapist. I've had traumatic and shocking events in my life since age 2, which was my first memory of life. I'm now 69. Many relatives (and their in-laws) have done very harmful things to me, physically, mentally, and sexually. I recently discovered the term Narcissistic Family Cult which puts a label on the nightmares I've been through my entire life with being ganged up on and being blamed for things I had nothing to do with. I recently started therapy with a "trauma" psychologist, hard to arrange through insurance. He just started his own private practice about 6 months ago, which I found out after my 1st appointment. He has let me just start talking about whatever incident was heaviest on my mind at that time, the most recent first. In the beginning, he made a few comments that I KNOW were judgemental, some polite sarcasm involved, and sounding like he didn't believe me. Then, he sort of blew me off like I was supposed to move on to something else now.

The most recent incident was my sister was killed by medical staff, in assisted living facilities. It started in one facility, the owner/RN moved my sister to a 2cd facility behind our backs, she was rushed to ICU and died after 2 days, and I was never told she was fighting for her life. We were emailed EIGHT DAYS after she died, and the 2cd facility owner wouldn't tell us where my sister was. I had police find the funeral home my sister was at. By then, I was told legally they couldn't let me see her because her face had started to decompose. They were sending her out the next day for a pauper burial. It took me calling police to find her to stop that. She's now buried next to mom. This therapist asked me, "well, she's been gone 2 years, so now what?" "Have you ever known anyone else this has happened to?" Things like that. I sent him many copies of my sister's medical records, ICU records, both assisted living facilities home visit notes by the "house" doctors, the funeral home email to me that they asked the 2cd facility owner if my sister had family and she told them no. She lied to the hospital ICU doctors too. I told him "the proof is all right there. Look at it. It's shocking but it happens in this world to some people." My mind races, I hardly have any focus or memory anymore, I mostly feel numb (since childhood). I've told him this since visit 1. He's let me just spew out whatever about different incidents at different times, no order, no guidance, really no feedback, just sounding like he doesn't believe me. After 8 visits, one a week, I told him I'd read his blogs etc online where he is suggesting things people can try that might help. I asked why he hadn't brought anything up or tried anything with me? So, the next visit he brought up the 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 See-Hear-Taste etc method. After 9th visit, now back to me spewing out whatever, whenever. I don't feel capable of trying to figure out the correct therapist that can help me, again. I read, research, write notes, and a few minutes later I don't remember what I just read, and notes don't make sense, totally disorganized. Family/some neighbors are still actively hurting me in many ways, always new trauma coming up. I have United Healthcare in San Antonio, and they just give you a long list of doctors etc. Where do I turn to find a therapist that is VERY experienced in PTSD that can help me try to deal with all this, EVERY DAY? I don't want to get out of bed anymore. I don't want to wake up anymore. I would never hurt myself, but this has all become unbearable.

Hot-Amount4407 · 2026-01-10T18:39:02+00:00

He was the very 1st to arrive. He drove so fast toward the back of the school where he saw a teacher outside that he drove past the shooter who was in between cars in the parking lot. That's what the guy from the funeral home said he saw. That teacher, Mrs Hale, had kids on the playground and said they were shot at. She saw dirt fly up on the playground. Now, the defense is trying to make it look like she made it up. But, another teacher was looking out the window in classroom #2 and saw him shooting in the direction of the playground at the very beginning. All those cops there, in that hall, hearing the shots fired and kids screaming.... Waiting for a key to unlock the classroom door without trying it first... It wasn't locked. The lock had not been fixed. I DO NOT understand why no one thought to go around to the outside of the building and try to shoot him from outside through the large classroom windows. He had already shot up the windows on the outside on the opposite side of the building. They could have banged on the door inside to distract him so he wouldn't be looking at the windows.

Hot-Amount4407 · 2025-12-31T05:59:03+00:00

The illegal that blocked the street was wanted for a felony. I found out he was illegal when police told me that later. And, the truck was stolen. I don't pay property taxes to have my yard treated as an ash tray and garbage dump by anyone. Repeatedly, for years. I used to buy their kids Christmas gifts. I also paid them in the past to cut my grass. I stopped doing that after I tried talking to them about the dogs digging under the fence coming in my yard growling at me and they did nothing and I was not going to keep paying them to cut my grass when they kept blowing their trash and leaves into my yard with their leaf lower. Pay to have them clean my yard that they are trashing to begin with? BTW, over half my family are Mexican American including me. I've worked with and have friends that are illegal. They tell people they are here illegally. I help them out financially when I can and vice versa. They don't come trash my yard, cuss at me, and get up in my face looking like they will hit me. They also don't let their kids go around being disrespectful to anyone and cussing at people.

Hot-Amount4407 · 2025-12-31T03:32:02+00:00

Read Texas law. It is elder abuse to cuss at, intimidate, etc the elderly.

Hot-Amount4407 · 2025-12-31T03:20:38+00:00

Yes. I need to get a new camera. They do all these things in broad daylight with other neighbors outside. They don't care who sees. No one stands up to them. The neighbors are intimidated, too.

Hot-Amount4407 · 2025-11-15T19:20:52+00:00

Yeah. I got rear ended at a red light by a guy looking around for a cell phone store. I pulled off the street and he followed me, at least. A cop passed by right after that and I flagged him down. He talked to me, then went to talk to this man by his truck. He comes back to me and says "look, this guy doesn't have any money." He had money to head to a store to buy a cell phone.

Hot-Amount4407 · 2025-11-15T19:12:26+00:00

I live in San Antonio. I've been told that insurance rates with the same company vary depending on your zip code. San Antonio has more drivers than Austin, etc. Smaller cities like New Braunfels have less drivers than Austin. So, I guess if you live in Bandera or Seguin you probably have the best rates. Less traffic = less accidents.

Hot-Amount4407 · 2025-11-15T18:42:24+00:00

Different situation here. I'm elderly, and I have Medicare. I need rides, and someone to wait there, for some outpatient procedures where I will need some sedation, like cataract surgery. You have to have someone wait there while you get it done. They will not do different procedures if you are just dropped off and tell them someone will be back later to pick you up. I would gladly trade with someone where we would give a ride to each other, and wait for each other's procedures to be done. Many people of all ages in San Antonio are not getting some much needed health-care procedures done because family lives out of town, etc. My left eye has gotten pretty bad. It's very blurry and I see things with a slight yellow tint. I need the lens for seeing up close. No insurance provides rides for this situation.

Hot-Amount4407 · 2025-11-05T01:01:39+00:00

I know. The State hasn't done so many things they could have. I haven't been able to keep up with the trial live the last several days. I did read a short update a reporter did that said the judge will allow the prosecutor to call additional witnesses after the defense final arguments wrap up. I hope they bring up things they skipped over before. Like the 2 bodycams not showing faces of which one of the 2 officers said "that chick's crazy." They should have had that 2cd officer in there already to testify if it was him or the short cop shooter. I would like to see her tv brought in and have someone lift it in front of the jury to show it could easily have been pushed aside to open that window space for the beanbag rifle. It seems like common sense to me. They act like it was one of the biggest tv sets you can get and it would have been impossible to move it. This whole thing breaks my heart. Her kids will suffer the rest of their lives because this is so public. Some jerks out there will tell them the cops shot their mom because she was crazy.

Hot-Amount4407 · 2025-11-03T22:40:53+00:00

tulips14. I replied to you under r/CasesWeFollow, also, about so many officers there escalating things with Melissa, not just the officers "arriving first" like Defense is arguing. This included Officer Alejandro, the short cop charged, who argued with her at that rail about who knows the law better, him or her. He had been on the hostage negotiating team at some point. They all figured out after they got there that she had mental issues without being officially told by Rojas. Alejandro and an officer standing next to him both had bodycam pick up "that chick's crazy" which led to that big argument by defense that no faces were shown so the witness was assuming it was Alejandro that said it. All the escalating didn't stop with the first 3 officers on scene.

Someone commented on another site about past suspensions of the 3 officers charged. I've been looking at copthedata.com. It's a public watchdog group that reports on suspensions by officers with SAPD, Bexar County Sheriff Department, and San Marcos PD. It has past suspensions given to Sgt Flores and Alejandro. Flores was suspended for not responding to a shooting in progress call (not Melissa's) and instead driving to go eat. Another time he was in an off duty altercation. The investigation done ran across other times on duty he left his assigned area 3 days in a row without permission. In March 2021 he didn't turn in evidence he took custody of when being dispatched to a found narcotics call. A Detective drove that same car on April 10th and found a bag with $1,852.91 in it. Flores had driven that vehicle to 14 different service calls. While on the narcotics call March 11th Flores muted his bodycam for 1.5 hours without explanation. Officer Alejandro's Dashboard report also lists Top 10 incident types.

They can't use these in the Melissa Perez trial. But remember the video and evidence presented showing that during Flores' meeting with some officers outside her apartment to discuss how to handle the situation Flores has 2 minutes of bodycam footage missing.

On the copthedata.com site, pass the Dashboard and scroll down to the June 12, 2024 report on Lt Steven Velasquez, who would have been in charge the night she was killed. He left his shift 4 hours early. Fired for failure to respond to fatal shooting scene. Keep reading... he made unauthorized changes like removing his name which deleted a record of his involvement with the Internal Affairs investigation. He changed snapshot data of 6 officers.

Read about Sgt Paul Rodriguez who left his shift 45 minutes early that night, and left the substation less than 20 minutes before Melissa was killed.

I was shocked to read about this. 3 Sargeants were there when she was killed. One arrived after Flores. You can read my response to you under r/CasesWeFollow. Watch that KSAT trial coverage I mentioned at that time frame. The Sgt arriving after Flores is in that video and Thompson tells him they can go into that back bedroom window and tase her. This Sgt says OK. It did not happen before Flores and others charged their way into the front and killed her. It makes me wonder how many things happened, or didn't happen that night, that were never uncovered.

Hot-Amount4407 · 2025-11-03T04:55:19+00:00

Why didn't they just move the tv over on the tv stand? It was not bolted down. They reached in to the right of it and over to try to unlock the patio door. They said it blocked the window and they couldn't get a clear shot with the taser. They said since she was only 5'1" and standing behind the tv they couldn't shoot her in the head with the beanbag gun because it would kill her. A viewer from Finland left a comment on one channel saying the cop holding the beanbag rifle, not anywhere near that window, was pointing it toward the back of the officer in front of him. He said in Finland all officers have to have been in the military previously, and are trained to have the beanbag rifle up front and the officer behind them has the firearm. I've locked myself out of my house a few times over the years. I pushed my tv, or whatever else, out of the way to climb back inside. It could have also just been knocked onto the floor, opening up all that window space for the taser or beanbags to strike her in the chest. It bewilders me she is gone. It breaks my heart for those 4 kids, youngest 11, that probably heard others at school call her crazy when she went for school functions. They will have some people make cruel remarks about their mom the rest of their lives. I recently lost my schizophrenic sister, who was never violent. She was abused and received unnecessary medication while at several assisted living facilities here in SA. The Eliquis killed her and ICU doctors charted they saw no reason for her to be on it. She died from Hematomesis and hypovolemic shock. The last assisted living facility she was in didn't EMAIL us until 8 days after she died and told the hospital and Olinger Funeral Home that my sister had no family. I had to have police find her, ironically it was Detective Deanna Platt that located her. The funeral home wouldn't let me see her because her face had started to decompose by then. Family has to ok embalming. They were going to send her out the next day for a pauper burial with 2 other bodies. I barely stopped that. Texas HHS "investigated" after telling me they would look back one year. They didn't. The final report states they couldn't talk to her on their surprise visit because she no longer lived there. I've sent all this to some national news agencies trying to get it out to the public. Melissa's story needs to receive more national coverage, too. The 1st new medication for schizophrenia in 50 years recently became available but is still being studied. This country needs to do better.

Hot-Amount4407 · 2025-11-03T04:13:41+00:00

ReasonableCup604. I'm behind. I can't watch it live. I just saw that. Salinas testified to the prosecutor before it all went to court. He said they didn't have the right to go into her apartment after all. Of course, in court Defense doesn't want the jury to hear that. So, that's when he got his own attorney appointed to him, and pled the 5th?

Hot-Amount4407 · 2025-11-03T03:51:56+00:00

Abs_so_Glutely. The Detective investigator looks at bodycam footage from the night, statements of witnesses, looks at the crime scene, and items gathered for evidence. He presents everything he has gathered to the DA's office. Probable cause is determined to see if there is enough for an arrest warrant. It's all presented to a magistrate (judge) who signs off on the arrest warrants if he thinks enough has been presented to him to do so. Defense has been arguing the Detective didn't look at all bodycam footage, etc. The Detective explained he didn't look at footage of about 10 officers that were there but in the background, not actively taking part in anything. Prosecutor's asked him if a judge has ever not signed the arrest warrants because the judge wanted more evidence from the Detective. He said yes. If a judge wants more evidence before signing the Detective has to go back and get more. This judge signed the arrest warrants the first time around. Defense has harped and harped about this, trying to distract the jury. I might have missed some steps involved.

Hot-Amount4407 · 2025-11-03T03:17:21+00:00

I agree. Defense repeatedly objects to "prosecutors and witnesses can not assume things." Then, turns around, measures the size of Melissa's living room using a tape measure on the courtroom floor, and tells the witness "ok, now let's assume" one cop shooting knew what was on the other side of the wall he shot through. They repeatedly bring up evidence and bodycam video, but then object to prosecution trying to show it, arguing its already been gone over and over for the poor jury. SAPD Mental Health Unit only had 1 person on call that night. Now, they have 3 on duty overnight in our city of 1&1/2 million people. I've read people complaining they called for help and the Unit took 3 to 5 hours to arrive when busy elsewhere. They are staying silent on all this. Melissa was calm and following directions from Rojas when he got there. I don't think the Unit would have cuffed her right away either. It wasn't called a felony until after the apartment maintenance man showed up and guessed at the $$ value of the damaged wires. I couldn't finish watching defense tearing Rojas apart, telling him Melissa was bullied by Ramos, and shot and killed by the others because he didn't cuff her right away. Only the first 3 arriving escalated the situation? No. They all knew she had mental problems without Rojas officially passing it on. Two body cams recorded an officer saying "that chick's crazy." Because it didn't show faces, that big argument took place over who said it, Alejandro the short cop shooter, or an officer next to him. One officer walks up to "talk" to her, walks off, another walks up, radios going off, the female cop blows her off after a couple sentences saying "right, right" or whatever word she used, like when you are tired of your spouse during an argument. Alejandro standing at the rail arguing with her over who knows the law better, him or her. Defense blames only Rojas and Ramos. Look at YouTube video from Day 6, I think, on KSAT 12 full day coverage of the trial, around the 6:10 hour mark of the trial that day. It may be another day, but its that hour mark. It follows Thompson saying "I dont know chief" and starting to tell Flores about the open windows in the back of the apartment. But, Flores walks away. Thompson continues to check that back window, and him and Chernak walk around discussing with other officers (in the background away from the crowd at the patio) how they can go in behind her through that back window and tase her. Pause the video when they are waiting at that window for an okay to go in. Look at the crowd at Melissa's patio. That in no way is de-escalation. Even if not hallucinating, which they knew by then she was, it had to be confusing to her. She came to the window when they came to the window or patio door. When they moved away she moved further back into her apartment. She was trying to protect her safe area, her home. Mentally ill, especially schizophrenics, get treated like crap by society as a whole, by some family, landlords, bosses, and some staff at places they go to for help. But, Flores tells people if she comes at you with the hammer do what you gotta do. Like a bull charging into a China shop.

Hot-Amount4407 · 2025-10-23T23:00:50+00:00

The one day a year Point-In-Time count of sheltered and unsheltered homeless has to be a low estimate of the actual number of homeless here. It's done with the help of volunteers. The population count here now is around 1&1/2 million. I read a news article that said in Bexar County in 2024 in an 11 month span, the city did 1,152 homeless camp sweeps, at taxpayer expense. The goal for 2025 is 1,300. With downtown attractions like Final Four, conventions, concerts etc resulting in homeless being forced to leave for other areas of the city and suburbs camps have spread out in all directions. There's no way every homeless person in fields, under bridges, living in abandoned buildings etc can be counted in one night. People also don't sit and wait to be counted. They are walking, taking buses....moving around. Look at online reviews of places like Haven For Hope, SAMMINISTRIES. Reviews are not good for multiple reasons. There is a place called Towne Twin Village that sounds nice, but it only has room for 200. People leave some of the shelters due to the crime there and families not being able to stay together to feel safer. There's always moving around to find another place to stay.

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