casper5280
Crew Member
Good to hear Matt, speedy recovery
Thinking and hoping positive thoughts for a full recovery!! Don't dwell on what them Grizz are thinking and hoping for!! A savage bunchLOLFor the first time since the surgery, I can kind of "see" the gas bubble that was inserted into my eye to keep it inflated.
Appears to have shrunk perhaps 1/5 of it's original diameter.
Now we wait for it to dissipate completely...
Fledgling step, but a positive one methinks...
Cheers,
Nog The Hopeful
Hello Folks,
We traveled down to Victoria yesterday to meet once again with the surgeon who operated on my right eye a little better than a week ago.
Here are the findings:
The retina that had detached from the wall of the eye has been successfully re-attached, and is continuing to heal.
That process will require another few weeks to be certain, but it looks as thought it is cooperating well.
That's the good news...
The very center of the back of the retina holds by far the most nerve endings in an area termed the macula.
As such it is responsible for both central and sharp vision.
The macula of my right eye has a hole in it - described much like a "paper punch" or "bullet hole".
It is assumed that this occurred when the retina detached a couple weeks ago.
Left uncorrected, this will "grossly distort" (read make seeing impossible) both central vision and all fine vision in that eye.
The doctor wants to wait until the retina overall has healed some more (suggested ~ 3 weeks).
Then is proposing another very complicated surgery.
That will require opening up the eye once again, conducting the work directly on the macula, once again inserting another gas ball to keep it inflated, and another series of weeks to heal sufficiently to know if that is successful.
Dr. Erasmus did note he is "reasonably confident" that this will address that issue.
Finally, if and when the eye heals from that process, he wants to conduct further surgery to deal with the cataracts they found in that eye while undergoing these procedures. If we get that far, this would be the least intrusive procedure of the lot.
Of course I agreed to all of this.
There is no other choice.
The Doc also said not to cancel my plans for heading back offshore in August, nor hunting in the fall.
I love his optimism, and wish I shared it completely with him.
A little worried once again as you might guess.
The road to recovery just got a little longer it seems...
Wish me luck folks, appears I need a little more to beat this thing...
Matt
All the luck in the world to you Matt! I did 9 months chemo 15 years ago and I learned as long as the Docs are making positive noises you are heading in the right direction and if they start talking in terms of the status quo then you and they are starting to have to come to grips with the unknown. You are still on the right path!!Hello Folks,
Wish me luck folks, appears I need a little more to beat this thing...
Matt
All the luck in the world to you Matt! I did 9 months chemo 15 years ago and I learned as long as the Docs are making positive noises you are heading in the right direction and if they start talking in terms of the status quo then you and they are starting to have to come to grips with the unknown. You are still on the right path!!
A friend @ 70 yrs just had that done. Says a new lease on life for him... wishing you the same.