Attribution: Adam Cuerden, modified by Greg A L, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, turns the complaining couch over to the keeper this morning to see if there is any sympathy out there for him concerning the long-term shots-in-the-eye treatment procedure used by the VA Eye Clinic to treat the macular degeneration the keeper inherited from his dear old mother.
Sympathy is likely to be sparse, as the treatment procedure has grown to become common and is not the ordeal that its description describes–a very brief sharp prick and it is over for an interval of several weeks.
There is a temporary after effect during which vision is obscured and mild irritation results, sometimes more intense than other times.
That’s where the keeper is today as he makes his plea for sympathy.
It is the opinion of Kickass that sympathy is not appropriate and in its place there should be encouragement for the keeper to thank his lucky stars that there is now the shot treatment that might have prevented his mother from going blind before she died at an old age.
And the keeper does get sympathy, from Phyllis who brings him his soup bowl and his “eat shield” so he doesn’t drip on his shirt in his temporary visual impairment.
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