Detached Retina!!

[Happy Domino38]

So, there I was today, fiddling around on ECF, as I'm wont to do, when the little yellow 'donuts' that have been affecting my vision for 2 days start 'blooming' a little quicker than they were yesterday.

(Sigh)

So, I call my family MD and ask her to set up an appointment with the eye specialist in her building. She tells ME, 'nay nay Young Scot, you're to go to Emerg. NOW. Do NOT collect 200.00, just GO.'

(Sigh. Again.)

So, I drag myself up to the hospital and tell them what's going on.

"Oh! Kath! We'll get you right in!!"

Great! (Membership has it's privileges..)

So, I'm off to Fast Track!! I'm given my very own little 'eye exam room'!!

It's 6x9 and most of the room is being taken up by THE CHAIR OF DEATH. (Or, the optic exam chair, I hate having people poke about my eyes..it's a bad thing...)

Then I SAT THERE. For HOURS.

FINALLY, the Doctor pokes his head around the door, and lucky for him, it was a NICE head..., shines a light in my eye, (yes, the same one I could have done to MYSELF at HOME) and asks me when I had my last dilated eye exam done. I told him 2-3 years ago.

He says, 'Ok, brb..' and disappears, then, 1/2 hour later, in comes some CHICK giving me a sheet of paper for my scheduled out-patient eye exam for Thursday.

WTF?

So, I ask what's going on? SHE doesn't know, so I take a look at the requisition form and there it is..'Detached Retina'.

Gee, thanks for telling me!!

Bloody HELL!!

 

[JustKryssi]

OMG, that sounds awful! I hope it's not too painful. How do they treat that?

Big hugs honey!

 

[Zenfrogs]

Holy Crap! Thats sucks! So Sorry!

 

[thelook]

Good lord Domino!
Get those eyes taken care of asap!

Dr. thelook says: it's from looking at to much man candy

 

[Fudgey]

Thats horrible, why would they not tell you?

 

[beebopnjazz]

OMG! And they're waiting til Thursday?

 

[lawnman3]

what a bunch of bs doctors now a days go figure wish you luck at the doctors visit domino lawnman3

 

[jj2]

Sorry to hear about your eye and your awful hours at the hospital.
I'm with you though, I hate them---actually I think it's the waiting I hate the worst---no matter where I have to go.
The detached Retina, does it have you worried?

It does me.

 

[beebopnjazz]

What was the point of an ER visit and then let's wait 48 hours?

 

[Happy Domino38]

Wow! Thanks guys!

I think that it WAS all the male 'eye candy' in here...

I'll be allll better after a visit from Angus, Elendil, Joker and Jerry..

I know!! 'RUN TO THE HOSPITAL!!!!' I ran! They tell me to come back in 48 hours?

Well, I know what happened to a POINT..by the time he got in there, the Eye Specialist would have been gone for the day. (I got in there at 12:30 btw), so, he left, tried to find someone that knew what to do, couldn't find him and sent an INTERN back to give me the news and an out patient appointment slip...

Shoulda stayed home..

Good thing for ME that we're friends with our family doctor and yes, she DID get a rather venomous message left on her machine at home. All I WANTED for her to do was get me in to SEE the specialist. Well, not HER fault, I guess she was just trying to speed things up for me, just didn't work out..

No, it doesn't HURT, but you know when you press on your eyes, you get that yellow glowing 'donut'? That's what's showing up every time I blink. If I kind of stare off into space, it'll kind of 'creep' up around the edges of my vision.

I can still SEE clearly, it's more annoying than anything else, but thanks to all for your kind words and wishes...

 

[bestthingever]

This happened to me about 2 years ago. The only way I know of that it can be fixed is thru surgery, and they usually want to do the surgery NOW. They had me in surgery within 24 hrs of diagnosis.
I had previously thought that detached retinas were caused by a blow to the head or some other kind of trauma, but not true....mine was spontaneous. $10,000.00 worth of emergency surgery, and at the time I had no insurance. UGH.

 

[Fudgey]

Should be wearing a patch? Would that even help?

 

[Happy Domino38]

that's what I'm thinking too....surgery..I'll be fine as long as they beat me over the head with something heavy first, if they tell me that I have to be AWAKE while someone's THAT close to my eye's, I'm NOT going to make it...

 

[bestthingever]

I was very heavily sedated. Started coming to just a few minutes before they were done, but still too wacked out to care....

 

[Happy Domino38]

Phew!! I had kidney stones for almost my entire pregnancy with Payton..no problem..but get near my EYES?!?!

Run!!!!

 

[stover.p]

I think you should get a pirate patch me self I hope you get it taken care of soon. I got my bifocals today and they are playing hell with me being on the computer! Everything else seems ok just not the computer. Oh well I think I have a better deal than you Domino...........well wishes for a speedy recovery!

 

[bestthingever]

I'm kinda like that about the dentist.

Seriously, did they tell you when something would be done, or did I miss that in your post ? My doc's didn't want me to wait even 24 hrs.

 

[Mary Kay]

Domino! Girlfrirnd I am so sorry. I am scared of eye thingies..I worked for an optomitrist and he wasnted me to try some colored contacts to see if they covered my brown eyes. He couldn't get them in and it took me a half hour yo get one in! My last eye exam the Dr, did something new. He told me to lean back and close my eyes. he put the dilating drops on my lids and told me to nlink. I DID IT! it was fast and painless and didn't have to watch the dropper coming. Still can't do the pressure test.
Hubby had eye surgery..he said he was given lots of drugs and it didn't bother him at all.
I don't get them making you rush and panice only to wait and wait. Mike's potassium was way up and they paniced. But by the time they read the Blood test results he was home from the V.A...an hour away. He went back yesterday and they had him take some meds and took him off his B.P. meds..he went again today..he was back in the good range. But that's Military..hurry up and wait.
Take care of yourself and don't stain your eyes..we worry!
Stover..point your nose at what you are looking at..don't look over the top of your glasses!

 

[Happy Domino38]

Yeah, a patch WOULD make me into a more 'mysterious' stalker for the lads we pick on, wouldn't it?

I have an appointment for Thursday BTE..we'll see then I suppose!!

Wow MK, sorry to hear about Mike!! Take care of that hunky man and I'll take care of MY eyes! Deal?

 

[blueeyekelly]

Wow, good luck with the appt. tomorrow... sorry about the hospital visit (and that is why I try to stay way from any kind of medical professionals office)

Hope you get better soon.