Life is riddled with a procession of minor impediments

[Rog69]

Your dishwasher packing in is karma's way of telling you dont need a dishwasher.

Karma can get stuffed  . Anyway, I think I've fixed it.

Just use the 3D printer to bash out a new machine, Rog. Or new dishes.

Hmm, its certainly doable apart from the electronics and pump motors. I could print the casing in titanium and the plastic parts in ABS and hight temp resistant acrylic. I reckon I could bring the whole project in for under half a million.

[A.Cow]

Your dishwasher packing in is karma's way of telling you dont need a dishwasher.

Karma can get stuffed  . Anyway, I think I've fixed it.

Just use the 3D printer to bash out a new machine, Rog. Or new dishes.

Hmm, its certainly doable apart from the electronics and pump motors. I could print the casing in titanium and the plastic parts in ABS and hight temp resistant acrylic. I reckon I could bring the whole project in for under half a million.

If you're investing in CNC equipment for this project, and if you have any spare nickel-brass alloy sitting around, you could 3D print your own pound coins.  The machine will literally pay for itself.

(Mind you, at half-an-hour per coin it'd take about 28 years.  And compound inflation would be a bugger.)

[SuperSurfer]

Those things are shit, mate. There's no substitute for a proper mousetrap.
Hang in there. This too shall pass. We're living with my dad gift now but found a rental that we can move into on Friday. The next step is hunting for a house we can buy. We'll get there in little steps, and so will you!
Best wishes
- Trout

Thanks Trout. Yeah, you are right. Need to persevere with house hunting. I just find it so boring. Prices are nuts around here so need to move a further out. Recently had an offer accepted on a house but couldn't get mortgage on it as it's such a wreck. Saw a fantastic house few days ago but it has a Japanese knot weed infestation. Day of the Triffids. Too risky. Seems that whenever we can just about afford anything there is always a catch. Good luck with your hunting.

[Simon Beigh]

My son's visual tracking problems, which cause him to have difficulty in reading, have worsened. He now has an issue where one eye tracks in a different way to the other (it's something to do with something called convergence - both eyes do not converge on a single object adequately). This can be corrected through a course of therapy with a specialist - which is not covered by the NHS... We are staring at the thick end of £450...

I guess that's what emergency savings are there for...

[Rog69]

My son's visual tracking problems, which cause him to have difficulty in reading, have worsened. He now has an issue where one eye tracks in a different way to the other (it's something to do with something called convergence - both eyes do not converge on a single object adequately). This can be corrected through a course of therapy with a specialist - which is not covered by the NHS... We are staring at the thick end of £450...

I guess that's what emergency savings are there for...

That really sucks, how on earth is something like that not covered on the NHS?

My impediment is being the victim of possibly the worlds stupidest criminal.
I was alerted by a neighbour earlier that someone had smashed a bloody great hole in the side of my shed and got in to see if there was anything worth stealing. If they had taken a couple of seconds to look through the window it would have been quite obvious that all it contained was 2 rusty bird cages and a bunch of half finished paint cans.

[TordelBack]

That's pretty crappy, Simeon, but good to hear that there is corrective therapy, even if it is pricey.

[SuperSurfer]

Hope he isn't falling behind with reading, SimonB. Best of luck with the therapy. But yeah, I would've thought that would be covered by the NHS. Wonder why it isn't.

[Frank]

My son's visual tracking problems, which cause him to have difficulty in reading, have worsened. He now has an issue where one eye tracks in a different way to the other (it's something to do with something called convergence - both eyes do not converge on a single object adequately). This can be corrected through a course of therapy with a specialist - which is not covered by the NHS... We are staring at the thick end of £450...

I'd echo everyone's astonishment that getting your wee boy the help he needs is going to leave you out of pocket, Simeon. It might be worth checking that you're not the victim of the postcode lottery. If that's the case, no-one could blame you for being a bit creative with what you tell the docs about your family's living arrangements.

[Simon Beigh]

Appreciate the support, chaps. Firstly, and most importantly, whilst his condition is holding back his reading it is correctable with this therapy. He has already had therapy previously for a different problem with his eyes (to do with how the eyes track across lines of text) which, once again, had to be done privately, but it's just bad luck he now has developed this.

As for the NHS, they just don't seem to cover it. He is being seen by an optician, not through a GP or a hospital. We took him to this particular optician because these types of conditions in children are his specialty. It simply isn't understood enough in the UK. Our optician has even had the equipment he needs manufactured because it can't be sourced in this country. It's commonly diagnosed and treated in the US and Australia. It's called Vision Therapy, and there is more info on our opticians website http://www.eyezone.co.uk/pages/vision_therapy.php

[Frank]

As for the NHS, they just don't seem to cover it.

Teaching my Granny to suck eggs here, but are you sure? Googling shows loads of NHS authorities with information on the basic home exercises for the condition you mentioned, which they say their orthoptists support with therapeutic sessions.

[Simon Beigh]

As for the NHS, they just don't seem to cover it.

Teaching my Granny to suck eggs here, but are you sure? Googling shows loads of NHS authorities with information on the basic home exercises for the condition you mentioned, which they say their orthoptists support with therapeutic sessions.

That's very helpful, sauchie, thanks very much. I will look into this further...

[sheldipez]

As for the NHS, they just don't seem to cover it.

Teaching my Granny to suck eggs here, but are you sure? Googling shows loads of NHS authorities with information on the basic home exercises for the condition you mentioned, which they say their orthoptists support with therapeutic sessions.

That's very helpful, sauchie, thanks very much. I will look into this further...

I hope that gets sorted. One of my sons has a super lazy eye that we're lucky that his prescription glasses sorted it out. It took a bloody long time to get him sorted (endless docs passing it off as "tiredness" in the early years until it to the point where it was constant and inescapable that there was an issue). There's nothing worse than this kind of stuff with your kids. We still put his lack of interest in reading down to his eyesight and recentlly introduced him to comics, which he actually enjoys reading and cant get enough of [those comics will be loved!].

[Spikes]

Aye, wishing you, and your lad, all the best with this Simeon - and hopefully that link from Sauchie will be of some benifit.

And thats brilliant that your lad has discovered the joys of reading, via comics, sheldipez - now, how many of us here learnt that way, eh?

[Simon Beigh]

Again, really appreciate the support, chaps. Thank you. I have found a clinic that offers treatments for eyes in my local area that is NHS. I'm going to phone them tomorrow and see if they offer the therapy.

[Sideshow Bob]

Best wishes with that SimeonB.....hope all goes well.......

Cheers....