I visit my eye doctor today and tell him, "I'm having pain my eye, the worst I've had so far." His response: "No, you're not!" *Sigh* OK, I think I know what happened. What he heard was that I had an infection in my left eye. He's tested for that, and I don't have one. That doesn't…
Something nice happened to me today: called, to ask for some computer advice. Medical issues have dominated my life the past week, and will probably continue to do so for at least the next week. Lately I've been doing little but sitting at home and watching TV. That one call was a ray of light in an…
The surgery is complete. I'll know more tomorrow when I see the doctor and he removes the eye bandage. In the meantime, I have to keep my head down, face towards the floor, constantly. This is hard. It reminds me of one of the punishments in Dante's Inferno. I may have to keep doing this for 2-7…
Verdict: surgery. I'm going to have a vitrectomy of my left eye. It will take place on Thursday. After this is done, I have a good chance of recovering full vision in my left eye. It's going to be uncomfortable for a while, though. I'm feeling a bit lonely and isolated, but there's not much I can…