Tomorrow morning I'm having a detached retina repaired. It's my right eye, so if you suddenly see me praise Nancy effing Pelosi, it's because I'm all left eye for now, or the pain meds, or both.
This all started 3 months ago with a small tear and it has progressively worsened to the point that I need emergency surgery if I want to retain vision in my right eye. The past couple of months have been interesting. I go from total vision in my right eye but it seems like I'm looking through stained glass to a near 100% blockage where I can't see anything, and then back to psychedelic vision 2020 (but far from 20/20). My peripheral vision is currently gone, which makes it weird when someone comes up to me on my right side and I don't notice them until I turn my head or they move forward into my line of sight. Driving has been, let's just say, an adventure. I tend to do better when I close my right eye and turn my head to the right in order to see as much to my right as my left (say that 10 times real fast - but with your right eye closed).
So I'll return to share the progress and how my vision hopefully returns after the surgery. If I haven't already mentioned how absolutely giddy I am to spend the next 4 days in a massage chair with my face planted in a downward direction, it's because, well, it's because Epstein didn't kill himself.
This all started 3 months ago with a small tear and it has progressively worsened to the point that I need emergency surgery if I want to retain vision in my right eye. The past couple of months have been interesting. I go from total vision in my right eye but it seems like I'm looking through stained glass to a near 100% blockage where I can't see anything, and then back to psychedelic vision 2020 (but far from 20/20). My peripheral vision is currently gone, which makes it weird when someone comes up to me on my right side and I don't notice them until I turn my head or they move forward into my line of sight. Driving has been, let's just say, an adventure. I tend to do better when I close my right eye and turn my head to the right in order to see as much to my right as my left (say that 10 times real fast - but with your right eye closed).
So I'll return to share the progress and how my vision hopefully returns after the surgery. If I haven't already mentioned how absolutely giddy I am to spend the next 4 days in a massage chair with my face planted in a downward direction, it's because, well, it's because Epstein didn't kill himself.