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Bill's Eye Issues for November 11th, 2024 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I have a kind of a two part story here
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  or three part I don't know. We'll see how it goes. Yeah.
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  So I have this, and I've talked about it before
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  in my right eye, wet macular degeneration, which is better
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  than having dry macular if.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna have macular general, I.
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  Speaker 1: Mean, the wet one is fairly treatable. Dry not very treatable.
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  Uh but you know, either or you go blind eventually.
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  Just but they can they can halt the progress of
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  the wet macular degeneration by giving me injections of It's
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  a drug called of aston, and you get an injection
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  right into your eye. Yeah, uh so. Uh so this
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  was discovered that I had this four years ago something
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  like that. Started going to this eye doctor, this retin
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  a specialist, and he gave me a series of injecttions.
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  It took about eight months. You get one a month
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  and then he they check the progress of the degeneration
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  and and he's after cut, why is it? You know,
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  looks like we stopped it for the time being. And
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  I didn't go back for a couple of years, all right.
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  And what it does to you is that it distorts
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  your vision and distort your vision in different ways depending
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  on where it is. With me, horizontal lines start melting.
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  They just go so creepy. I'll read it. I'll look
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  at a street sign and the first two words are
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  in line, and then they just kind of melt down
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  out of the way. So it started up again, so
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  I started going back. I went back. He said, yes,
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  it's progressed. So I had an injection last month, and
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  then last week I went for my second injection. And
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  as I sit down to have the injection, the young
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  woman who's kind of getting me all ready for it, says,
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  now I need to know how much money you make
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  every year and how many dependents you have. And the
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  eye don't. Yeah, said why why, why why do you
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  need that? That's that's for the insurance. And I said,
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  I have insurance. Why don't Why do they need to
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  know that? She said, well, it's for the clinical trial
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  that you're a part of. I said what, I said,
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  what what nobody's told me I'm part of a clinical trial?
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  What are you talking about? She gets a kind of
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  a confused look on her face and said, I don't.
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  I don't really know. I'm just I'll go find out
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  about it and see so it comes back and the
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  doctor and another person starts talking to me about it. Yeah,
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  well they need to know how much money you make
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  every year and the dependence. It's not my insurance that
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  needs to know it. Because there's a new drug that's
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  a little better than of aston, Okay, the doctor wants
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  to use that. Okay, Well, the insurance company doesn't want
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  to have anything to do with that. See, but there
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  is a charity that if you can qualify for the charity,
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  they will help supplement the cost of it. But you
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  don't qualify. I don't think I don't think so. I
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  don't believe I would. I did so I talked to
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  the doctor's staff that deals with all the insurance stuff,
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  and she said, listen, hold off, I don't I don't
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  know if you'll qualify for this, but there are some
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  other things we might be able to do. I'm going
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  to look into it. I like nothing better than sticking
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  it to the insurance call.
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  Speaker 2: And shouldn't we all be able to get whatever the
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  best medicine for this works the best?
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  Speaker 1: Why is this? The American people didn't vote for that,
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  and the and the insurance companies, well, we know better
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  than the doctor and the doctor, being the guy he is,
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  he said, just give bill. We've got free samples of it.
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  We'll use a free sample. We'll use a free sample.
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  So I mean I still have to pay that, you know,
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  the visit cope here. Just give him the free sample.
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  So the procedure is this, They numb up your eye
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  with the drops and that takes several minutes, and they
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  come back and put more drops in there and numb
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  it and more drops in numb it. And then they
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  take this little device you've seen clockwork orange where they
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  have Alex's eyes with this little little little springy thing.
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  And then the doctor very quick. It's very quick. It
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  doesn't hurt, really, it's just kind of creepy. You feel
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  you feel a little pop and then you can see
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  the liquid sort of swirling around and side.
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  Speaker 2: And you don't even get a valume for this.
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  Speaker 1: But but the doctor, this doctor, I'm not going to
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  mention his name. He's really nice. I mean, he's just
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  such a nice guy. He's very kind of humble and
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  quiet and concerned.
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  Speaker 2: And he's just you feel like you're in good hand.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, since I've been going to see him, he's I
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  just really like him. He's just great and so he
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  kind of makes you feel more at ease and and
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  it doesn't hurt really. But as they put the and
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  I said, you know, you got to put pictures of
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  clockwork orange all over the room. And I said, yeah,
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  it'd be great. But as as he was, as the
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  his assistant was putting the little pry open thing there,
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  a little eye pry thing, I said, what's that thing called?
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  And she said it's a speculum. Yeah, And I said,
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  it's really a speculum. Yes, it's spread something open. Yes,
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  it's used to spray thing. And so I said, a speculum. Well,
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  that's just that's interesting. And the doctor said, yeah, I
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  don't like calling it that, he said, he said, especially
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  in front of my female patients. I just I just
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  see it. Say it's the it's the eye pry open thing.
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  It's the prior eye probably open thing. And I really
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  don't care for I don't I never call it the speculum.
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  Have to call it.
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  Speaker 2: We wouldn't want to call it the spreader either. No, no,
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  because that's that's a chest spreader. They have a similar.
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  Speaker 1: Nurse get that thing either prized the eye open. Okay, doctor,
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  you mean the spec. Don't say that. Don't say it's
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  You could tell he was just kind of embarrassed. Get
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  the thing, get the eye thing, you get the thing.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean, You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: They're they are terrific in that office though. And the
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  woman that's gonna you know that I talked to on
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  the phone about the having to pay for this, she said,
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  there's this is how screwed up our system is. The
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  drug company who makes this newer drug also has a
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  program that that they will pay for the extra amount
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  that the insurance won't cover. Yeah, and and it's all
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  a system of kickbacks, and you know it's just ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: But God forbid we have the S word socialism, Yes,
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  because that's demonic or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: It is about. Let's have n H National Health.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's just another name for the S word. And
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  you know what else begins with the letter S, Satan
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  Speaker 1: And Shazam,