So I went in for a routine eye exam today. I mentioned to the doctor that for the past few weeks I had noticed a little gray floaty thing in the bottom half of my field of vision that would come and go. She dilated my eye, looked in there and said, "you have a detached retina!"
She immediately called a retinal specialist and I drove over to his office (after picking up my parents in case someone needed to drive me home, and for moral support)...after about an hour of uncomfortable eye poking and light shining, it was determined that I have a detached retina on the top of my left eye, a couple of holes in the detached part, as well as a couple of holes and thin spots in the retina of my right eye.
I'm only 27, my only eye problem is that I wear glasses, no other health problems. I've never had stitches or broken a bone....now I'm going in for surgery under general anesthesia on Tuesday. They're going to use a laser on my right eye since it's not too severe. They're going to have to cut into my left eye, draw out some of the fluid that's in there, fix the retina and put a scleral buckle on my eye- basically it's a silicone band that will go around my eyeball (top to bottom, not around the front) that will stay on for the rest of my life and keep the pressure inside my eye even.
The doctors seem very good, and pretty confident that this will work. There are some risks of course, but the odds are on my side.
I won't be able to work for two weeks, mainly because I'm not allowed to read for two weeks! No books, magazines, internet, newspapers...I can watch TV and that's about it. Reading requires moving your eyes back and forth and my right eye won't have a patch, but my left eye will and there's no way to move one without the other. This is going to be hell. I've already downloaded the audio version of some books I've been meaning to get to.
My mom is going to stay with me during the day until my boyfriend gets home. For the first couple of days I will have to mostly stay in one position while my eye calms down.
I'm probably going to have to unplug my computer to resist the temptation of getting on.
Not looking forward to this....I will have someone post an update ASAP.
On the upside, Albus is still eating by himself. At least something's going right.
She immediately called a retinal specialist and I drove over to his office (after picking up my parents in case someone needed to drive me home, and for moral support)...after about an hour of uncomfortable eye poking and light shining, it was determined that I have a detached retina on the top of my left eye, a couple of holes in the detached part, as well as a couple of holes and thin spots in the retina of my right eye.
I'm only 27, my only eye problem is that I wear glasses, no other health problems. I've never had stitches or broken a bone....now I'm going in for surgery under general anesthesia on Tuesday. They're going to use a laser on my right eye since it's not too severe. They're going to have to cut into my left eye, draw out some of the fluid that's in there, fix the retina and put a scleral buckle on my eye- basically it's a silicone band that will go around my eyeball (top to bottom, not around the front) that will stay on for the rest of my life and keep the pressure inside my eye even.
The doctors seem very good, and pretty confident that this will work. There are some risks of course, but the odds are on my side.
I won't be able to work for two weeks, mainly because I'm not allowed to read for two weeks! No books, magazines, internet, newspapers...I can watch TV and that's about it. Reading requires moving your eyes back and forth and my right eye won't have a patch, but my left eye will and there's no way to move one without the other. This is going to be hell. I've already downloaded the audio version of some books I've been meaning to get to.
My mom is going to stay with me during the day until my boyfriend gets home. For the first couple of days I will have to mostly stay in one position while my eye calms down.
I'm probably going to have to unplug my computer to resist the temptation of getting on.
Not looking forward to this....I will have someone post an update ASAP.
On the upside, Albus is still eating by himself. At least something's going right.