So the operation yesterday didn’t go ahead. Alas my blood pressure was too high, not just too high but “hello Ross/Norris #is this a record? high”
[Aside:- “What is the record for Blood pressure ? —– Zero” ]
Accordingly I am back today using some pescription medicine to chill with.
However the frenetic pace of my admission has become clearer, as , what was a mere shadow in my affected eye on Monday, is now about 40-50% loss of vision (still reparable).
As always, I have made life a little bit harder and more complex for myself by not recognising and acting on the signs earlier – although in fairness to myself, with the streaming eyes of a hayfever sufferer, it was not obvious that there was an additional complication.
Still, I was aware on Thursday that one eye had not recovered, and Chris had already asked me to check further. However as it did not seem “serious” I felt that taking time off work Friday or Saturday seemed foolish, especially as I was off Monday anyway.
As I said before, I had no suspicion of the potential seriousness of my affliction, thinking that my lens was perhaps reacting badly to the hayfever or the drops, or worst case, that I had somehow disturbed it with the -almost unavoidable – subconcious rubbing.
But there were clues; tiny black spot floaters, at one point a twisty smoke spirial (like ink in water) which I actualy tried to absent mindedly wave away (lasted seconds). On Friday the sensation of “an unspilled tear”(teer not tare) at the bottom of my eye.
These can all be tied in with allergy, but they are not usual for me.
So before heading off for attempt two, allow me to proffer the advice I ignored ;
Someting unusual in your vision? Spots, floaters, lines …. call the optician, get it checked.
If it helps, when I explained the reason for my call, I was offered an appointment within 30 mins,(of course, I asked for later) my visit took less then 20 min for the optician to recognise the problem.
My delay and yesterdays fiasco (none to blame but me), will not prevent the operation with a 80-90% chance of saving my vision, however – going by my “Ladybird book of Retinal Detatchment (free on admission)” the later the intervention, the more chance of incomplete recovery, and certainly, longer recovery.
You’ve been telt.
Next time on IaDL – Do you think this patch makes me look a little like Johny Depp?
#Younger viewers – Ross and Norris were (once) the editors of the Guinness book of records
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