"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2013-02-14 18:45:33 +0000, Bill Grey said:

"Sacha" wrote in message
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I was both heartened and disheartened this morning when Ray read a piece
out of the DT to me. Apparently, it is officially acknowledged (not just
us moaning to each other!) that while they look great and the vision's
wonderful, flat-screen tvs produce really terrible sound. A lot of
people have resorted to buying a soundbar to improve the clarity. I'm
relieved it's not just us, to be honest. Watching Call The Midwife the
other night, we lost several seconds of dialogue because of the blasted
music and the blurred dialogue. So it's not just the deaf and ageing!
Eh?
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk

Uh! you've think you've got problems? I have a cataract on one eye and
I'm paying for Sky+HD !!

Bill

Oh dear! Can the cataract be dealt with? Friends of ours have had them
done and were astonished at the success. I hope something can be done
about yours, too. We have the minimal Sky account. But when someone makes
a tv that cuts out music soundtrack during speech, I hope someone will
tell us!
--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk

I have been assessed, and am now on a waiting list for the op.

Bill

On 18/02/2013 20:47, Bill Grey wrote:
"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2013-02-14 18:45:33 +0000, Bill Grey said:

"Sacha" wrote in message
...
I was both heartened and disheartened this morning when Ray read a piece
out of the DT to me. Apparently, it is officially acknowledged (not just
us moaning to each other!) that while they look great and the vision's
wonderful, flat-screen tvs produce really terrible sound. A lot of
people have resorted to buying a soundbar to improve the clarity. I'm
relieved it's not just us, to be honest. Watching Call The Midwife the
other night, we lost several seconds of dialogue because of the blasted
music and the blurred dialogue. So it's not just the deaf and ageing!
Eh?
--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk

Uh! you've think you've got problems? I have a cataract on one eye and
I'm paying for Sky+HD !!

Bill

Oh dear! Can the cataract be dealt with? Friends of ours have had them
done and were astonished at the success. I hope something can be done
about yours, too. We have the minimal Sky account. But when someone makes
a tv that cuts out music soundtrack during speech, I hope someone will
tell us!
--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk

I have been assessed, and am now on a waiting list for the op.

Bill


Here in Wales we have much longer waiting lists than you do in England,
it's the way our health service works (Slow), but even so it's much
better than in the old days when the consultants would wait for the
Cataract to "Ripen".
They only operated on mature cataracts and you could be waiting 6 years
or more for your turn, then it was 5 to 7 days in hospital.
There was a time, not so long ago when you could go on line and see the
waiting times for individual consultants at every hospital in Wales, now
with the improved web sites and improved services you can no longer do that.
David at the Drought ridden end of Swansea Bay, 4 days without rain, and
the water holes are drying up, though still some footprints out the
field are half full of water.

Dave Hill wrote:

Here in Wales we have much longer waiting lists than you do in England,
it's the way our health service works (Slow), but even so it's much
better than in the old days when the consultants would wait for the
Cataract to "Ripen".

I went to see my doctor in late August, was referred and got an appointment with the opthalmic clinic a week later and had the first op 10 days after that. I was a bit annoyed that I had to wait so long to have the second eye done. Seems as though I was being somewhat impatient :-|

I think you were lucky! There's been a lot in the press about cataract operations being regarded as elective surgery and therefore being postponed or stopped altogether; also reports that you can only get one once the second eye is affected and then only on one eye. I only know one person with cataracts, and she's been waiting over a year. It's prevented her from driving after dark, which has made her life difficult - even in a city, reliance on public transport limits mobility.