the 2nd scariest event that happened in my life

[3dbinCanada]

I went down to the campground on Mon May 25. While I was there, I noticed I was losing peripheral vision of the lower right side of my right eye. I called my eye Doc and made an appointment for Thursday to get checked out. I woke up next morning and I all I could see was a narrow 1" strip horizontally across my eye. I had 2 gray horizontal strips of gray vision from either side of that 1" strip. I went to emerge in Kingston (closest place from the campground) and was diagnosed with a partial retina detachment by the on-call ophthalmologist. She spoke with the on call ophthalmologist and arranged for an appointment with one in Ottawa. I drove back that evening to the trailer and next morning drove to Ottawa for the appointment with one good eye. By the time I got to the appointment, I lost all vision out of that eye. The doc put in a gas bubble into my eye to help push the retina back in place. Next day, I could see out of the eye but it was blurry. I went for an appointment yesterday and although, the healing looked good, surgery was still required. I had that yesterday at 2pm, another appointment this morning and the doc is very happy with the results.

This was the 2nd scariest event that happened in my life.

 

[JStewart]

Happy to hear the prognosis is good!


Any chance the recovery period will involve limited movement with extended periods of sonic activity?

 

[3dbinCanada]

Happy to hear the prognosis is good!


Any chance the recovery period will involve limited movement with extended periods of sonic activity?

Hey!! Are you clairvoyant??? That's exactly what the Dr prescribed!!

 

[Jack1949]

Good luck with your recovery!

 

[Sonnie Parker]

Hope it all works out... sounds like it will.

I have permanent optic nerve damage in my right eye... foggy all the time. Nothing can be done. It was caused by untreated high pressure in my eyes for too many years. Now I have stents in my eyes to keep the pressure down. Thankfully, it's not as noticeable because my left eye seems to compensate pretty well. Of course, if I close my left eye, all bets are off... it's blurry, can't read, and couldn't drive with it alone. Either way... I would NOT want to completely lose sight in that eye, as it still offers help with peripheral vision. Losing peripheral vision is scarier than the fog/blur.

 

[3dbinCanada]

Hope it all works out... sounds like it will.

I have permanent optic nerve damage in my right eye... foggy all the time. Nothing can be done. It was caused by untreated high pressure in my eyes for too many years. Now I have stents in my eyes to keep the pressure down. Thankfully, it's not as noticeable because my left eye seems to compensate pretty well. Of course, if I close my left eye, all bets are off... it's blurry, can't read, and couldn't drive with it alone. Either way... I would NOT want to completely lose sight in that eye, as it still offers help with peripheral vision. Losing peripheral vision is scarier than the fog/blur.

I have to agree with your last statement. I got all my peripheral back but the silicone fluid is what makes my right eye vision blurry