Tag Archives: ophthalmologist

Sweet Service Award goes to Discovery; Sour Service Award goes to Standard Bank!

 

The Sweet Service Award goes to Discovery, for paying all the costs associated with my recent eye operations, including the opthalmologist cost the day hospital expenses, and the cost of a PCR Test which I needed prior to the first operation. While I realise that I have paid for the insurance costs, and have never previously claimed, it was an effortless process, the staff of Dr Vayanos doing the paperwork with Discovery. All that was required was my Discovery number.  Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 132 of Level 1, 9 February 2022.

 

Wednesday 9 February 2022, Day 132 of Level 1 😷

Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a reasonably peaceful day, hard working this morning; for a Bakoven walk; for a check up at my Opthalmologist Dr Vayanos, all looking good, going back in two weeks to get my prescription specs updated; for popping in at the new mini Coco Safar at Hertex opposite the Gardens Center, sadly with very poor service; for only one Discovery Gameboard play; for receiving my German birth certificate translation from Astrid Hambrock; for a Camps Bay walk; for Pick n Pay keeping Whiskas cat food for me, to collect this afternoon;  and for being Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 131 of Level 1, 8 February 2022

 

Tuesday 8 February 2022, Day 131 of Level 1 😷

Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for having such a good friend in Gary Peterson, who got up at 5h45 this morning, to fetch me and take me to the Netcare Christiaan Barnard Hospital to meet my Opthalmologist at 7h00 for her to mark something on my left eye, for the Toric Cataract operation later this morning; for being second in the queue to be operated, with far less paperwork today, most of it having been taken care of last week already, only my Blood Pressure and Blood Sugar measured, very happy with the blood Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 125 of Level 1, 2 February 2022

 

Wednesday 2 February 2022, Day 125 of Level 1 😷

Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a cool misty drizzly day, continuing into tomorrow, after the heat of the summer days of the past weeks ☔️; for a meeting with Ryan Rudy to discuss a collaboration with Community Stewards to assist in cleaning Camps Bay; for being able to see far so well with my right eye, when I removed my Perspex patch, everything looking so bright and clear, having to add eye drops four times a day; for a productive work morning; for only one Discovery Gameboard play; for a check up Continue reading →