Embed this noticesimsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 04:00:28 JST
simsa03Before Europe can finally move to a new self-image, a new identity, something that is already forged by the Eastern European nations and triggered by Russia's imperialism, sins of the past need to be resolved. And that means that Germany needs to open up to demands of reparations from Poland, from Greece, and others. To build this new Europe that is no longer defined by its past but by its future and our common aspirations and hopes, the silent conflicts of the past need to be addressed in the open. Please, Germany, accept your "Erinnerungskultur" to the fullest. Approach your neighbours and negotiate lasting agreements. The new Europe that is already in the making needs it. Without that Europe will keep being a volatile, evanescent, and instable compromise.
This is a stunning thing to read. I hope you get well pretty quickly. And that you and your loved ones never experience hunger again.
Embed this noticesimsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 18-May-2025 09:35:08 JST
simsa03Left eye still not well, even six days after the laser surgery and icing. No retinal detachment, it seems, but a slight veil before the eye. Floaters abound, the visual field restricted to a tunnel compared to the right eye. Next consultation with the clinic on Monday. I really want to get this over with and return to work.
More interesting: Khan allegedly succeeded in pressuring the woman not to cooperate with investigations against him by allegedly emphasizing its impact on the arrest warrants.
I won't generalize but with two doctors, the surgeon who did the removal and one of eye doctors on duty doing the examiniations on Sunday to Tuesday, I'd pretty much claim that. I mean, would you count as professionalism:
• Mislabeling of the patient's name and identification in the transfer papers to the laser unit
• placing the retinal hole in the wrong area of the eye in documentation and epiciris so that other doctors cannot find it at first
• calling for and documentating a local anaesthetic when the senior doctor ordered a general anaesthetic
• getting the epicrisis wrong
• needing three hours to get the epicrisis papers ready?
Would you call a care staff professionial that
• after surgery needs three times being asked before bringing another blanket (not even wrapped in a duvet cover)
• that forgets to apply medication according to the medication plan?
I surely don't trust this clinic and I'm in deed a bit scared how they may botch my eye should they go for a vitrectomy. Not because they would do that on intent but because of carelessness. So yes, a lot of German doctors and staff are shit, and yes, I feel like a 6th grader when I don't see a way to intervene when at the same time I seem to be required to constantly monitor the quality of all staff activities just to ensure that I'm going to be treated safely. Mrs. Dr. Omed is not wrong but perhaps she could have distinguished between me "talking seriously" and me "talking literally". My regards to her anyway.
True, this is a big medical facility, lots of staff, doctors, technicians, support employees, patients, visitors, people come and go. Mistakes can and will happen frequently and people will have to wait endlessly. That's part of big machines churning. But this facility does have a bad reputation, not so much with regard to its medical unit but with regard to its staff in care and administration. As these keep blaming the medical staff.
Embed this noticesimsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 06:00:55 JST
simsa03I'm always baffled by how many people seemingly cannot distinguish between something being said seriously and something being said literally. The inability to read between the lines, to sense various layers of meaning, even the banal distinction between reporting use and fact-stating use of language. It contributes to this world having become a cesspool of practical constraints, bossiness, triumphalism, and contempt.
It's Tueday evening and I just returned from the hospital, three days later. My suspicion was correct: A hole in the retina with its hem already detached. Went there to the ER on Saturday night, got first inspection 3 hours later, eye doctor unsure whether it can still be treated by laser or needs a full-blown surgery via pars-plana-vitrectomy instead—dismemberment of the vitreous body, substitution of the aqueous humour with gas, air, or some silicone oil, to press the retina at its place, with possible side complications like further detachments—so I was checked-in overnight. On Sunday the senior physician opted for laser treatment, and I got 397 shots in my eye. Next examination on Monday it was decided that although the lasering seemed to have worked, there should be some icing in the area near the nose where the laser couldn't reach properly. If that works, fine; if not, the senior physician suggests the pars-plana-vitrectomy, Which I will then decline, opting rather for half-blindndess. We'll see after the next consultation come next Monday.
The shit thing is: The surgeon whom I consulted for the final examination on the success of the surgery of the right eye on Thursday (before Staurday's ER) didn't heed my remarks that I was seeing black dots flying across my left eye. Instead he said I'm fit to work again. Had he reacted properly, then the whole thing could have been lasered far easier, said the doctor in the ER.
Yes, I do hate cataract surgeries. And idiots posing as master physicians when they are nothing more than fricking amateurs. (Like the rest of the hospital. Unbelievable the shit that happened all around.)