Worst day so far!

May 26 – Well today certainly did not turn out as what was expected. We had a good breakfast and eventually left for Charlottesville. My eye had been feeling like something was in it and I made an appointment with an Ophthalmologist for this afternoon. It's my eye that I've been having issues since February with light arcing and it has to do with the aging process. The gel inside the eye liquefies as you age and that's the end. But in some cases, as in mine, as it liquefies it doesn't always detach from the retina lining the inside of the eyeball. It will take longer to detach from it and the piece that is still attached will tug on the retina when you turn your head suddenly or have a jolt and when it pulls light gets in and causes the arcing light like a rainbow off to the side. It was scary at first but then you get more used to it. Well, it was supposed to end in 2 weeks to 2 months when I first went in. It didn't so I went back the end of April and all was still OK. If you aren't careful those areas will jerk and cause a tear in the retina, which can be fixed. If you don't watch or be careful the worst case scenario is the retina will detach and that's a major ordeal.

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We thought we'd get into town early enough to do some shopping and we planned to go to a couple of used book stores but they were on the main street that is a pedestrian mall and with Bill on crutches it would be difficult to park and go, so we ended up going to the area where the doctor's office was and once we knew where I needed to be we went to Burger King for lunch. Yuck! Their salads do not compare to Wendy's or probably even McDonald's.

I was at my appointment in plenty of time and Bill went to fill the car with gas and get a car wash. Well, he didn't find anything in my eye but did a re-check on my bad eye and found a horseshoe shaped tear. He recommended I go right up the road to a retina specialist right now so I said OK. They called and got me in so Bill drove me there. Although the Dr. said they would most likely do the laser surgery right there I really wasn't sure what was going to happen. They did a whole round of tests and prodding and my poor right eye was so tired and sore. There was only the same tear that the ophthalmologist had seen and he wanted to go ahead. They numb it with a gel for a bit, then with several shots in the eye. I won't say it didn't hurt but you're afraid to move a muscle, but geez there is a needle in your eye so I didn't even want to breathe. He let that work for a while then he stuck the “probe” in my eye and seared the retina down. It took 2 times and that hurt also. I think it's just it feels like so much pressure and the probe is cold so it's like an ice burn in your eye. Believe me I never even twitched a muscle.

He said to keep a patch on it until this evening and use some ointment in it for

Nasty!

a couple of nights and it will be red for a week. He wants to see me again for follow up torture and then I'm to see my Ophthalmologist when we get home in September. He said I will probably have light arcing still but it won't be due to detachment of the retina. So I guess I'm good to go but my eye is just so tired it made me tired all over.

We made a stop at Wal-mart for my ointment and a few groceries since we are scheduled to work for the next 3-4 days. We didn't get home until 7 and I was pooped. We had leftovers and I read a while but then sleep took over.