i crawled into my lair an hour before sunup, i was so tired from all the excitement yesterday. I hate having to sleep nearly sitting up!

luckily my retina didn’t detach, it only tore a little teeny bit. But there was a little capillary in that area, and it released a little spray of blood which is making an incredible number of floaters and my vision is a total blur in that eye. The doc said it’s an in-office laser procedure, they seal the area around the tear to stabilize it or something. I try not to listen because mostly those detailed right-to-know pep talks squick me out.

The ER doc didn’t want me to leave ER until he had talked directly to a specialist. Said specialist wanted to see me, so Baby Brother drove me to his office in a town 20 miles away. Lo & behold it was a new branch of the eye clinic i’ve used for decades and the dr was my age & thus knew & worked with my marvelous original eye doc who retired 16 years ago! Small world.

Baby Brother said to eye doc, “she’s gonna have to rest her eyes and stay off the computer, right? I’ve got good safety glasses, she can help me scrape paint on the outside of my house until her eye heals!” Doc laughed. Computer good. My good eye is good, & i’m just sitting when at computer = good. Scraping paint & vigorous activity = bad. But i’m supposed to stay vertical. As the doc said, the eye is like a little snow globe. If i keep my head vertical, it gives all the blood floaters a chance to settle to the bottom, making surgery on monday easier. Squick.

as for some of my hs buds showing up, needing to behave?

Like all the other children of the night, she crawls into her lair at sunup

I didn’t spend a lot of time in retina clinic, so I’m not sure of the complete procedure for dealing with a retinal detachment. Plus, it’s been nearly 10 years, so it’s possible that the protocol has changed since then. But depending on the size of the tear, the laser treatment might take a while. The worst part is the position you’re in; leaning forward into the slit lamp while the doc does his thing. Some docs use a stabilizing strap across the back of your head to keep you positioned properly, others have their tech hold your head in position.

Good luck to you for Monday, and take it easy. If they tell you to rest your eyes, stay off the computer, and home from work, etc., DO IT! *she says using her best mommy voice while crossing arms and tapping her foot*

(Do you sleep? I thought you just worked or played lurking mod all night long?)

I wore comfy grubbies to the ER, in case i needed to stay at the hospital. No makeup. No coffee. No food. I was a cranky farmgrrrlll. But i was allowed to go to my class reunion dinner tonight! Straight from the specialist’s office with grubby clothes, no makeup and a patch over my eye. I made quite the entrance

My brother was hassling me the whole way to the reunion because i wouldn’t let him draw a gross eyeball with blood-shot veins on my patch. brothers!

and what caused it? “at your age ….”

But the reunion was GREAT FUN! and some of my HS buds might even stop by the Beach House for a visit sometime

g’night madmommy. sleep tight, sweet dreams.