From the ophthalmologist visit last week, diagnosis for the blurred vision in my left eye. My "good eye" mind you -
macular schisis from vitreous detachment. In layman's terms, the boat (macula) has pulled away from the pier (retina) without all the lines being cast off. Part of the pier has been detached. Fixable, yes. Surgery according to Doc One, second opinion being sought from Doc Two at this very moment (if you're reading this Tuesday morning). Second opinion is Doc One's idea, just to make sure.
Visit with the regular eye doc on Monday after work. Oh boy, glaucoma, both eyes.
Yay me.
It's tough to focus right now. Literally and figuratively.
Stay tuned.
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I suppose there's always this. As a third career...*
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* Hint: Google Navy LSO.
Will be thinking about you, and sending Positive Badger Waves in an Easterly direction.
ReplyDeleteThanks Scott.
DeleteSarge, You're on the list! Hang in there.
ReplyDeleteThanks Juvat.
DeleteI will definitely be thinking and praying.
ReplyDeleteNow’s the time to leave it up to the experts.
They can explain the options.
Just be sure they let you know all of them.
I have had all the options explained, doing nothing is not an option. Doc Two agrees with Doc One, and he's got a nicer office and prettier techs. But Doc One made the call, he gets to do the surgery. More detail will follow when I have it.
DeleteChris, believe med, I know what you are going through. My bad right eye (amblyopia)npq'd me for flight training and has been a problem all my life. Now the other eye is showing all the typical signs of advancing years. My ophthalmologist said there really wasn't anything he could do to help except a new glass prescription. I figured that there had to be something, so I got an appointment with the head of the department at Johns Hopkins and trundled off to Baltimore. After a through exam he delivered his expert opinion, "Sucks to be you." I hope you find a specialist with both a better bedside manner, and a more positive opinion.
ReplyDeleteTwo docs, same result. Both explained the data very well (and to my satisfaction). All that's left to do is schedule the date.
DeleteSure hope all turns out well. The Laser surgery nowadays can be miraculous.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine the prognosis fifty years ago.
DeleteThe benefits of real science.
Oh, bother. Well, at least there are a bunch of us out here rooting for you. I have an eye appointment later this month. So far, so good, but I can hear the foot steps in the distance.
ReplyDeleteRemember what Satchel Paige said! Don't look back...
DeleteHoping for a good prognosis, eye doctors today are pretty amazing.
ReplyDeleteI've seen major improvements over the years. I am confident.
DeleteYou are now on our prayer list. At least it's fixable. One of the engineers I used to work with at the college had this same problem with both his eyes. (Roger was a lifetime diabetic) The repair for him was for the Doc to inject a bubble in the eye (they only did one eye at a time) and then he had to lay face down for four weeks while the bubble forced the macula against his retina and let it repair itself.
ReplyDeleteTechnology has advanced. Now it's two to three days. Or so I'm told, the surgery for a retinal detachment is similar.
DeleteDang, boss. Get better. Better, get much better, sooner. I mean, there used to be an honorable profession for guys like you, but nobody wants to be an NFL ref anymore, and being a baseball ump is boring.
ReplyDeleteTag me in when you need me. Between me, sir juvat, and Captain Vacation, we should be able to handle it. Maybe not as well as you, but we'll git er dun.
Ooh, I like Tuna's new nickname, er, callsign.
DeleteNice, but I'm back in the salt mines. Another day older and much deeper in debt.
Delete"Hello?"
Delete"Oh, hi St. Peter? How are you?"
"Tuna? He can't come to the phone right now, he owes his soul to the company store."
"Ja ja, I'll tell him you said hi."
After being diagnosed With macular degeneration in my right eye in 2005, I started taking Lutin and Zeaxanthin supplements. My eye doctor is impressed that the degeneration hasn't gotten worse. She can't say the supplements are the reason but tells me to keep taking them.
ReplyDeleteWell, Doctors don't know everything. There's good stuff out there yet to be discovered. And yet to be acknowledged.
DeleteEye am glad we don't sea a problem that can't be fixed. Sorry you have to go through with it all the same. Let Lush or me know if you need any special medication for glaucoma. Apparently it's easily obtained here in Cali.
ReplyDeleteGood to know.
DeleteI like your sense of vitreous hunor. Oh, wait, you were in the Navy, so it would be aqueous humor, neh?
Oh drat!! Well, at least it is fixable! And hopefully, it was caught early enough so it is easily fixable...eyesight being rather important for future history writers and all...sending prayers your way, sir.
ReplyDeleteGotta say, really like how you describe a detached retina. Never heard it put quite that way, but it does get the idea across. Careful, you will wind up teaching nurses or doctors or EMT/paramedic types. :)
Oh, BTW, Happy Birthday to all the Air Force types...I understand today is the Air Force's Birthday? Heard it on the radio...
Thanks Suz!
DeleteAs to the birthday thing, it's more like the anniversary of a divorce really. Yes, yes, the Army Air Force became just the Air Force. But we'd been around since World War I in one form or another.
Will there be cake? I dunno, prolly not, budget cuts and the like.
Bummer! There should always be cake...life is short, eat dessert first!!
DeleteNow you know why my diabetes patients liked me...I would show them how to cheat on their diet, but not get into trouble.
Because, if you live to be 100, but have a lousy quality of life, who wants to do that?!?! Besides, when the grandkiddos have the 1st birthday, everyone wants a piece of the cake. So I say...let 'em eat cake!! Stupid budget cuts...
Just had my own follow up with the ophthalmologist last week who wanted to recheck my eye pressures regarding possible glaucoma that was detected two months ago. After all the drops and cornea thickness checks, etc., Doc was pleased and pronounced me as not having glaucoma but that I was a "suspect" for it down the road. Never heard a future physical ailment described in such a way.
DeleteSarge, all the best in this journey you're facing.
Suz - Indeed, let us eat cake!
DeleteRivetjoint - Yeah, suspect, I've heard that term thrown around.
DeleteThanks for the positive vibes!
Prayers offered, you sound positive, which must be a good thing and the docs seem to have a handle on the procedure, for all of which we are glad.
ReplyDeleteI am confident, I am in His hands, always.
DeleteThanks for the prayers, always appreciated.