Week 5 in quartine for me, all was going so well and I was moving along from room to room, cleaning out, getting rid of things I no longer used. Painting each room and redoing this I had been wanting to do for months. I even bought the paint Agreeable Gray from Sherwin Williams and had it in the basement. I got the kitchen the hallway my bedroom and ensuite done when I somehow ended up the UAB eye foundation at 7 PM last Friday night one week from today with a torn retina. He wants me back on 2 weeks and he said that debris had entered in from the tear, (blood) which is nor a white blob that is obstructing my vision in my right eye.
It is aggravating, to say the least not painful at all just can not see as well. I have decided that I do not want to be put to sleep for the 4th year in a row. I am calling on the Lord to just remove it for me and clear up my vision. The tear was lasered and repaired that next AM when the surgeon got there. He told me not to lift anything over 10 lbs to allow the tear to heal up. So, I have been sitting or outdoors sitting when the weather permits. I have not been writing, sharing, or posting much because it is aggravating as I said to see well through the right eye. That was the poor eye cataract surgery was done on and I ended up with the wrong lens and it was such an awful ordeal. I had to have people drive me weekly to his office across town for months. With very bad vision since it was the wrong lens, I ended up with PRK the old version of Lasix that took longer to hear from. I was not a candidate for the Lasik he said because I had an injury years earlier to the cornea while working in y yard in the ’90s a limb caught me right across my open eye. That might have been a start to issues with the eye getting weaker, I don know.
Changing the subject, how are all of you holding up during this time? Are you keeping busy or about to escape prison? Now that I can not do much that is what it is starting to feel like and being here alone has its advantages I guess in some ways. Other days I wish there was someone here for a bit just to inner act with for a bit. If you are alone during this time you get it, if you are not you might wish you were, I don’t know. I am not a daytime TV person, so when it is nice out you will find me there. I do get several calls per day from my youngest son and several friends, the ones that care and want to know things here are ok.
Blessed to have some awesome neighbors, we have a neighborhood FB page and if someone is going out that check-in to see if I need anything, I love and appreciate that so much. When I was younger I’d have been the one doing that for the neighbors for sure. Not that I am that old but 64 is not a spring chicken. If what I had in late December through the last week of January was COVID19 I do not wish that on anyone and I am sure mine was a mild case that kept me in the bed for days upon days. Three rounds of antibiotics, and 2 steroid shout and I was still not well. I did think wow, by now I would have been well before why will this not go away? Hmm, makes you wonder for sure.
Ok, have a blessed afternoon a great weekend as great as it can be, hey, if we open our eyes in the AM we are blessed as this too shall pass and things will get back to some type of normalcy I think. Not sure things will be the same for some time, but we can get out a bit with our mask. Look at the bright side no makeup and not all know it is you.. LoL
Love,
Debbie