Okay - a little about my last ten days:
Last Sunday (July 2) I noticed that the visual field in one eye was different.
A partner in the our building is an optometrist, who met me late that afternoon to have a look. As he was looking, I noticed multiple deep sighs. He told me I had somehow sustained a retinal detachment...
Long story short - in less than 24 hours (on the holiday weekend) I had been examined by an ophthalmologist and admitted for emergency surgery.
He literally punctured my eyeball and sucked out the goo (vitreous) and lasered my retina back in place. He then filled the eye with sulfur hexafluoride gas to hold everything in place. I left with my eye patched.
I saw hin the next day (July 4) and he took the patch off to reveal that I couldn't see a stinkin' thing from that eye. He assured me that was normal and that it would take up to 2 weeks for it to resorb and be replaced by aqueous material that would not tend to pull the retina away again.
As of today (day 8 after surgery) the bubble is about half gone and a have the upper half of my visual field back. I'm optimistic at this point that things will continue to improve.
BTW - this is my extremely dominant eye.
TLDR: just thought I'd vent about what it's like becoming an oulde....
Now - GET OFF MY LAWN!
Not as exciting as
@tgsio stories, and I don't share a lot of personal stuff here, but thought maybe someone here had been through something similar.
