The scare tactic pushing quack who told me in 1990 that I would be blind in six months without PRP laser was wrong. The next internal eye problem that arose was in 1998 when the appearance of a floater scared me enough to make an appointment with another eye doctor.
I saw Hendrik Krosschell, who up until recently had been affiliated with the Pearl Vision Center in Attleboro, Massachusetts. He now had an office up the road from that former location.
A minor gray fleck, I only noticed the floater while reading, which I did a lot of in those days of hotel desk clerking. The reasonable chain of logic told me I am a diabetic and should get this new developed looked at without delay.
Dr. Krosschell determined that the floater was just one of those floaters that all people get from time to time. He adjusted my prescription got distance glasses with a minor tweak that he assured did not need to be adjusted in any hurry. He did note that while he saw no signs of bleeding, he did see retina damage. With candor that is hard to find in the medical community, he admitted his limitations as a general optometrist and urged me to see a retina specialist.
I continue to see Dr. Krosschell. His honesty has been the one constant in my eye care and the storm of problems surrounding it. I go to him for referrals and second opinions. I relay on him for the manner of treatment he has provided. He will be honest in telling me when there is a potential problem to be looked at without dramatics or scare tactics. He admits when things are beyond his range without trying to pretend he knows more than he does or holding back information that might be scarey. He conveys no bullshit, and no God complex.
I’ve had some real bad luck with doctors and situations that brought me to them. When I’ve been done wrong, I am not afraid to name names and report how specific doctors lost or disillusioned me.
If nothing else, I strive to be fair, so I name names in the good sense too.
Hendrik Krosschell has been the best. I have always been treated as a patient, never as a number or a dollar sign. I cannot recommend him enough.
He has been my anchor in treatment through two very tough years.
I don’t think there is any one way for people to find their center or focus. With different strokes for different folks, no one way of doing anything will work for everyone. When it comes to dealing with the “start time” of writing, maybe one of these suggestions is one that will work for you.
ReplyDeleteTry stopping short when you “finish” a writing session. If you go back the next time with a focus on finishing the last point or paragraph of your most recent session, you may find automatic focus to start the new day.
On a day when you are already in motion, or when starting the day with lack of direction, create the leads or opening to the projects you have in mind. Thus on a future “unfocused” session, you can open a file that already has a topic begun and you are not facing the dreaded blank page.
A third coping mechanism is to not be working on only one thing at a time. I found that sometimes I am blocked because my subconscious is having issues or doubts with the project I am attempting. It’s best for me to let my mind work on those things in a natural course rather than forcing an issue. I switch to something else and almost always find some productive time, even if it is not on the project I originally set out on.
Good luck!