ON and off (part 11)

Vision goes down and up a little, just to be sure the inflammation in the eye has not returned: back to Urgencias 🙄.  

This time a doctor at urgencias who seems to be more experienced with eyes, she looked into the eye herself, and said there was no inflammation, and she would call Oftalmologia. She spoke with one of them, and said: you have chronic optic neuritis, you are on Nurane, capsules with ginkgo leaf extract + magnesium, which has vasodilatory properties to stimulate nerve repair, it is well possible what you experience is due to Nurane. There will be good and there will be worse days. 

Well, the good news is that there is no inflammation, but the "chronic" bit is really not good news.  New appointment with Oftalmologia for revision, OCT scan and field of vision. The OCT scan shows that indeed part of the optic nerve is no longer functioning. This means 40% of vision in the left eye has gone, and won't come back. General vision is still ok, as the missing bits are missing, they are not colored or flashing, and missing bits are filled in from the right eye. However, at the moment this condition is tiring, as it sort of feels like you have new glasses with a strong reading part.  And, reading with only the left eye is not possible any more.

Read a fellow patient idea: close your eyes, and sit in the sun. It helped her. Who knows.

(ON stands for Optic Neuritis.)  

Insert 5 - Metalfire Optimum - arrived

In Metalfire Optimum you can read about engineer Jansen's lust for a Metalfire Optimum insert wood stove.  After much deliberation an Optimum 700 was ordered, and it has arrived. The delivery service did not have a cart to lift the pellet up 10 cm, so they could not lift it up to the porch in front of the front door, which is 10 cm above street level. So, it was left next to the porch, at street level.

Grmbll. What to do.

Engineer Jansen decided to buy coaster wheels that can carry this 200 kg heavy piece of equipment, and use some steel profiles to devise sort of a cart. The wheels can carry 650 kg divided among 4.

Well, it may look easy, but it cost all day, and given the engineer's condition it was rather exhausting.

1. Move the pallet

Here it is next to the front door, street level, note the 10 cm step up:

Wheels attached:

Rotated 90º, in line with the front door:

Rotated 90º, in line with the front door, wheels removed:

2. Now remove the stove from the pallet:

Attach steel profiles with wheels:

The profiles are 2 cm above the wooden beams the stove is on:

Tighten these bolts and you lift the stove:

Screws!

Well, that was the theory. The stove is placed on two wooden beams, but those beams are screwed onto the pallet with 4 long screws. The points of those screws were bent, as the cart they used bent them. So, engineer Jansen could not unscrew them. Bending the screws back did not work, not enough room.  Drilling the head of the screws off sis not work either, it has cost the engineer one of his drill bits. Could not saw off the ends of the screws either. 

Decided to drill holes around the screws, and force lift the beams off of the pallet, then use the iron saw to saw through the screws.  That worked.

Here the contraption stands 2 cm above the pallet after tightening the bolts:

And wheeled it off:

3. Inside!