The 2nd most scariest experience in my life

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I went down to the campground on Mon May 25. While I was there, I noticed I was losing peripheral vision of the lower right side of my right eye. I called my eye Doc and made an appointment for Thursday to get checked out. I woke up next morning and I all I could see was a narrow 1" strip horizontally across my eye. I had 2 gray horizontal strips of gray vision from either side of that 1" strip. I went to emerge in Kingston (closest place from the campground) and was diagnosed with a partial retina detachment by the on-call ophthalmologist. She spoke with the on call ophthalmologist and arranged for an appointment with one in Ottawa. I drove back that evening to the trailer and next morning drove to Ottawa for the appointment with one good eye. By the time I got to the appointment, I lost all vision out of that eye. The doc put in a gas bubble into my eye to help push the retina back in place. Next day, I could see out of the eye but it was blurry. I went for an appointment yesterday and although, the healing looked good, surgery was still required. I had that yesterday at 2pm, another appointment this morning and the doc is very happy with the results.

This was the 2nd scariest event that happened in my life.

 

[adk highlander]

I went down to the campground on Mon May 25. While I was there, I noticed I was losing peripheral vision of the lower right side of my right eye. I called my eye Doc and made an appointment for Thursday to get checked out. I woke up next morning and I all I could see was a narrow 1" strip horizontally across my eye. I had 2 gray horizontal strips of gray vision from either side of that 1" strip. I went to emerge in Kingston (closest place from the campground) and was diagnosed with a partial retina detachment by the on-call ophthalmologist. She spoke with the on call ophthalmologist and arranged for an appointment with one in Ottawa. I drove back that evening to the trailer and next morning drove to Ottawa for the appointment with one good eye. By the time I got to the appointment, I lost all vision out of that eye. The doc put in a gas bubble into my eye to help push the retina back in place. Next day, I could see out of the eye but it was blurry. I went for an appointment yesterday and although, the healing looked good, surgery was still required. I had that yesterday at 2pm, another appointment this morning and the doc is very happy with the results.

This was the 2nd scariest event that happened in my life.

Oh my. I am glad you were able to get in and diagnosed. You are very lucky to have not lost your vision. I am glad you prognosis looks positive.

 

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Oh my. I am glad you were able to get in and diagnosed. You are very lucky to have not lost your vision. I am glad you prognosis looks positive.

Thanks brother

 

[j_garcia]

Holy Moly. I actually had a partial detachment years ago, which they believe was related to a bad car accident years before. It had not reached the point of affecting vision, but they caught it in the scans. Seems they use the same or similar machine for Lasik to "sew" the retina back on. Now that was the weirdest feeling ever because they prop your eye open like A Clockwork Orange and I could feel the pulses of the laser through my whole head.

Good luck!

 

[m. zillch]

Hope it all goes well.

 

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Hope it all goes well.

Thank you

 

[Eppie]

I have a friend living on Haida Gwaii who developed a detached retina. A little scarier for him living remotely and having to fly back and forth to Vancouver but after surgery they were able to restore his vision. Pretty amazing what they can do inside an eye these day. Hope all goes well for you.

 

[j_garcia]

Yeah, mine was done about 15 years ago and no issues since.