You may be a little after your time...

wellcomecollection.org/stories/drug...

Sometimes you just have to switch to power save mode for a few days 🙂

And today it went beyond expectations and was rattling the windows.

Good try, but it's a place-name. A village on the moor between Matlock and Chesterfield. 🙂

There you go 😂

I thought it may have been a profound comment on drugs/eye surgery at first... I now suspect - with some other things I've read - the with 40M users accounts Bluesky may be technically creaking a bit.

Have a good day 🙂

BTW, why did you attach a web link of a high school in Iceland? (Or maybe Bluesky had a moment and did it for you 🙂

No. Just a bucket full of local anaesthetic and antibiotics, and the prospect of repaired vision.
(You need the anaesthetics to compensate for the remarkably uncomfortable operating couch...)

Well, that was a learning experience. It worked, and being awake for the process is pretty good, too.

Hey! No lectures! You built your own ballista once. (A small one, admittedly.)

Thank you for your kind thoughts - all done.

My family will not allow me to wear a black eyepatch. Or a tricorn hat, or a parrot on my shoulder. Killjoys. 😒

My family will not allow me to wear a black eyepatch. Or a tricorn hat, or a parrot on my shoulder. Killjoys. 😒

Snap!
But I'm finding crossing the street rather er.. exciting these days :)

#plants #history #botany #art 🌱

Erythroxylum coca - Coca (shrub)

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And here's Karl Koller, the surgeon colleague of Sigmund Freud and experimenter who made the connections and made local anaesthetics work.

My Hero...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ko...

With you on that one. 🙂

Still happening, apparently.