The torn retina

The past couple weeks haven't been the greatest. While at work I noticed a bunch of floaters in my right eye. Then a bunch of marbleized swirls across my eye also. I didn't now if I should go to my primary doctor or to the ophthalmologist. I didn't know whether it was a stroke or what. I chose the primary doctor. Primary says make an immediate appointment with the eye doctor. That was Friday. Couldn't get an appointment until Tuesday. Monday was a holiday. I new something was wrong when they have me an appointment for an hour later. Routine stuff takes a month or two to get an appointment. The bottom line was I had a torn retina with some detachement. I had to go to Boston that day and have a procedure to repair it. It was not an overnight stay, thank god. Bob had just started a new deck for a customer and was thrilled to get my phone call. The procedure was no picnic. They inject a gas into your eye and it forms a bubble. The bubble is supposed to press against the retina & repair it. The headache (which they call an ice cream headache was something else.

Well it's been a week and it seemed that it wasn't getting better. Had another follow-up yesterday and the doctor saw more new tears. Whoa, is me!!  This time it's back to the hospital. This time it's done in the operating room. Your totally put out. Yippee!!! No ice cream headache. They inject more gas in your eye. You can't see at all in that eye for a couple weeks. I guess you can call me a bubble head for real.

the gross eye. Can't wait to see the next phase. ugh!