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Gawd! Not something to fool around with! Hope you've a good retinologist! My genuine sympathy...
I went thru a bout with retina separation fifteen years ago, laser welded both back in place and had to have a scleral buckle fitted on the left orb. Happened a year after plastic lenses replaced the cataracts. Now must deal with an out-of-position shift with the right lens and a big "floater" clot. No surgery until all this virus stuff is over. I have a refracted, second "ghost" image below the main in-focus one. No night driving, now must use the left eye to look thru a viewfinder with a -4.00 diopter eyepiece.
Hate to have someone messing with my eyes, you are likely the same. Told the surgeon after the reattachment how much I appreciated her skills and that a blind photographer is pretty much useless!
Good luck with the whole business, the advances in ocular treatments is amazing so your prospects are really good for full remedy. Keep us informed.
GregW
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Retinologist is top notch. I used to get laser treatments to try to stop capillaries from growing in a spaghetti fashion. 300-500 really bright shots per sitting around the edge of my vision. It was an indirect attack and I'm so glad that treatment/torture has been replaced with medication by injection into the eye. Left eye is the one that normally has the problem. It has lots of junk that has been floating around for years. I don't envy your detachment. I had a co-worker with that. He was dealing with it for months.
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Good to know you've got confidence in your surgeon. I understand the torture of the laser treatments, went through that with the detachment and as preventative in the right eye. Recovery with the left eye retinal separation and subsequent need for the buckle was a months-long ordeal. Head in the nose-down position for weeks after, with a gas bubble to keep the retina at the back of the eyeball while it healed. Ugh.
The woman who did/does mine is rated the best in the area as well. Neat part is she's an amateur photographer. I've chided her about shooting with Canon cameras, good-naturedly of course. She's had to postpone a trip to Africa for the last two years due to the virus, hope she gets a chance to go this coming summer.
The woman who did/does mine is rated the best in the area as well. Neat part is she's an amateur photographer. I've chided her about shooting with Canon cameras, good-naturedly of course. She's had to postpone a trip to Africa for the last two years due to the virus, hope she gets a chance to go this coming summer.
