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minnehahaK encouraged me to post closer to the time, so here it is.
Tomorrow I take the train to Chicago, and Tuesday I'm having a vitrectomy done on my left eye. This is a procedure where the vitreous humor is removed from the eye, the hole in the retina is repaired, and a bubble of nitrous oxide is put in the eye to hold the repair in place.
I then get to spend a week face-down to keep said bubble in place, and can't fly for a couple of months, until the bubble is completely gone.
If I can read, I'm in great shape to keep myself amused: Jhegaala, Victory of Eagles (the new Temeraire novel), and Kushiel's Mercy. Plus the rest of a bag of assorted stuff that I bought at my latest trip to DreamHaven, of which I just finished The Green Glass Sea, and am looking forward to reading the Sarah Tolerance novels when I can deal with smallish print.
If not, I've got audiobooks loaded on my iPod. The most frustrating thing I envision is that I won't be able to do any handwork -- I'm used to knitting or spinning while I watch TV or listen to audiobooks. I didn't manage to acquireguppiecat's DVD of old SF radio shows, but maybe that will happen later.
With luck, my vision will come back to 100% over the next year or two, except that there's a large likelihood (one retinologist says 75%, the other 99%) that I'll develop a cataract in the left eye from the mucking about.
Assuming everything goes according to plan, I'll return from Chicago a week from Thursday.
I'm trying not to think about all the things that can go wrong -- or the fact that someone is going to be poking sharp objects into my eye on purpose, with my permission.
minnehahaK encouraged me to post closer to the time, so here it is.Tomorrow I take the train to Chicago, and Tuesday I'm having a vitrectomy done on my left eye. This is a procedure where the vitreous humor is removed from the eye, the hole in the retina is repaired, and a bubble of nitrous oxide is put in the eye to hold the repair in place.
I then get to spend a week face-down to keep said bubble in place, and can't fly for a couple of months, until the bubble is completely gone.
If I can read, I'm in great shape to keep myself amused: Jhegaala, Victory of Eagles (the new Temeraire novel), and Kushiel's Mercy. Plus the rest of a bag of assorted stuff that I bought at my latest trip to DreamHaven, of which I just finished The Green Glass Sea, and am looking forward to reading the Sarah Tolerance novels when I can deal with smallish print.
If not, I've got audiobooks loaded on my iPod. The most frustrating thing I envision is that I won't be able to do any handwork -- I'm used to knitting or spinning while I watch TV or listen to audiobooks. I didn't manage to acquire
guppiecat's DVD of old SF radio shows, but maybe that will happen later.With luck, my vision will come back to 100% over the next year or two, except that there's a large likelihood (one retinologist says 75%, the other 99%) that I'll develop a cataract in the left eye from the mucking about.
Assuming everything goes according to plan, I'll return from Chicago a week from Thursday.
I'm trying not to think about all the things that can go wrong -- or the fact that someone is going to be poking sharp objects into my eye on purpose, with my permission.
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A local non-fan friend had a similar problem, similar treatment, and an extremely successful outcome. Having helpful friends and holding yourself back from trying too hard seems to be a key part of the good outcome.
Oh, and if you have friends who will actually read to you from the books you're interested in, you might even have social as well as health benefits from the experience!