Glad retreating worked! Now onward to this one more surgery....Prayers and thoughts are with you.

Glad your retreat was so great. Yes with every new light bulb we are becoming less enlightened would be a great way to put it. The people that I used to do spiritual gatherings with 20 seem to have lost their way into there lives changing and it saddens me deeply.
My thoughts and prayers are with you going forward to the next round and surgery. Hugs

So glad your retreat worked out so well! YAY!!!

Yeah, the "deep thinkers" of my college years are pretty much the puddle-wallowers of my forties. The search for light within seems too often to lead to a need to shine it brightly on what lies outside... and then we're left with more and stranger pockets of shadows at times than "natural" light would allow.... did that make sense? If not?

Well, just know we're here. Supportive vibes.

My ex and I had a titanic argument about a porch light, she wanted it dark, I wanted to not break a leg walking to the front door...or track dog poo in.

If you get out where there is no electric light though, your eyes do adjust...eventually. I have visual snow, so the night looks like an old cathode-ray tv getting a little static.

I figured out my allergies and lungs respond to working out a lot.
Also Cetirizine is good stuff.
a mast cell stabilizer is good stuff( accolade or singular), the side-effect profile on those is really good. VERY unlikely to hurt him.

I also take HUGE doses of this stuff called quercetin. I use NOW brand quercetin with bromelain, and recommend at least 4 grams a day. Based on my own experience; you have to take a lot to get good results. But it really does work, and it's generally beneficial to the body as well.
I use over 10 grams a day currently...Allergy season starting in FEBRUARY is, like, scary. It started in mid-April here when I was a kid...but global climate change is a myth, right?

@muji
Please, God, let it be just this one more surgery. This is right at 3 solid months of "simple" procedures gone complex... The "Simple" for this procedure would be that the gastroenterologist(?) will get his micro-cams and tools in there to find a healed bile duct and be able to remove the stints without incident. After 3 months of this, I am losing my faith in medical "simplicities." Again...

@dragon
Yea, it is deeply saddening to me that the deep thinkers of my early spiritual gatherings are just buying brighter bulbs and recorded drums these days... Sigh.

@Leo
Your natural light reach makes perfect sense to me, even though I have yet to find its words within the traditional light logics. It often amazes me what most folks call, "dark." A game I love to play as I walk in an electric night is, "Count the shadows." How many shadows can you find being cast by a single object? My record so far is 16, counted within a gated community where even the pets have their own security lights. Ever seen more than one shadow per object from natural lighting???? Not even the stars cast multiple shadows.

@blue
Yea, electric light sensitive folk are often at odds with night blind folk. I have run into that, ALLOT!!! Thankfully, my husband is another stargazer, so he is not among the night blind. It would crush me to face the dilemma with my beloved. Sure hope ya'll find a balance. In my own home/campsites, I keep flashlights and personal lanterns for the night blind folk I find worth the effort of knowing after sunset. Personally, I haven't met many of those, but the exceptions are worth the price of a personal lantern to keep their passages safe. The rest I just associate with during the sunlight hours.

Not so much that I'm night blind, in fact once adjusted I see eerily well in the dark.

But when I get out of a car, turn off the headlights, and proceed to walk in dog poo, trip over a bucket and smack my shin on the way to the front door, because the neighbor's security lights are * just * enough to throw the yard into impenetrable shadow...

Visions of a broken leg began not exactly dancing in my head.

None of the bulb enthusiasts I have had this conversation with think they are night blind, Blue. Not even the 85 year old FIL who needs a flashlight to find his private parts. It is pretty safe to say it has been at least half a century since he has let his eyes adapt to less than 300 lumens. His was the neighborhood where I was able to count 16 shadows for a single object.

Sigh. Repeat. It frequently amazes me what some folks call, "darkness."

May your appendages and shoes always be safe and clean.

For me, the yin-yang symbol epitomizes how I am on the light-dark thing. There's always a little dark in the light, a little light in the dark, and the two are best when balanced.... Too much of either, and it gets creepy in this head of mine.

Ah, yes, I have an acquaintance who loves to shine the megawatt brilliance into every orifice of everyone she encounters... Resulting in some horror-movie-esque effects, needless to say.

In an effort to get my light trigger under control, I went through a series of night time photo shoots I lumped and labeled, "Shooting the Shadows." I think the photo shoots helped. They got me back out into the electric night scape, but I still haven't been able to sort the folder without triggering to hell and back. Maybe it's time.

I went looking for the folder just before I diverted to babble here. Didn't find it my hard drive. I am guessing it is in the archives. Not too sure I want to go there. Maybe after the medical simplicities have simplified...

In my Church circles, I am pretty quick to suggest the evangelists take care to shine their light on the path instead of in people's eyes...

wahhoo good news take care be safe hugs min