I don't have much of an update on anything at the moment since I'm still trying to get into the swing of things again. My eye "healed", and I use that term loosely since I still continue to have trouble seeing out of that eye. This is nothing new, mind you, for I've been having issues with it since 2005. I am incredibly paranoid, though, that the retina will tear again and then this whole process will start all over. Or, worse yet, what if I lose vision in it altogether? These are the thoughts running through my mind daily these days.
As previously stated, I had to lie on my side pretty much the entire week after the outpatient surgery. This sounds easy albeit a bit boring but it came with an unintended side effect: it completely threw my back out. I've had back issues much longer than I've had eye issues and this ended up being one of the harshest back pulls I've had in many years. I'm still trying to get it back (hah, hah)...but seriously, my back has yet to completely calm down and return to what I think of as my normal weak back-ness/pain so there's a lot of sudden yelping going on as I move around the house.
Lying on your side for a week is actually a bit of a trick as well. It wouldn't be so bad if you could lay down in a normal position but instead it's all about your head placement. I needed my head to be positioned almost completely on it's side and trying to do anything in this position is quite a task. Even watching TV is bizarre in this position. Typing was almost completely out of the question and so lying there and doing nothing was pretty much the solution. For once, it's fortunate that time passes quickly at my age and so it went by rather quickly.
That's about all I've got at the moment. I'll try and write some more maybe in the next few days.
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