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I mentioned this already, but

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.