Thursday, March 22

Results Of My Eye Operation After Two Months & Three Days


I went to see Dr. Lam (my Ophthalmologist) on March 14th to find out how my eye surgery finally turned out. She did two operations on my right eye on January 19th. Even though I couldn’t tell I had a cataract the new lens in my eye surprisingly improved my eyesight and that was an awesome side effect.

Dr. Lam told me the second operation would really be difficult to pull off because a Macular hole is hard to close and there could be a lot of complications involved. She told me ahead of time that the gas bubble might not do the job, said to keep my head down, follow her instructions, use the eye drops as directed and keep my fingers crossed. I not only did that, but I prayed that my eye would respond to the treatment.

When Dr. Lam came into the examining room that day with the images of my inner eye she was really pleased. She showed me the images and it was amazing! The Macular Degeneration that caused the hole had disappeared! The before and after pictures were striking as the gas bubble had worked and the hole was gone. My doctor and I hugged as she congratulated me for following directions. Of course, I was lucky to have her as my doctor she was very good at her job and I thanked her.

I wasn’t sure if it worked or not before this last visit and was worried because I could still see the kink in a straight line when I used that eye but my doctor explained that it would take awhile for the damage that the hole had done to clear up and because we treated it so fast there wasn’t much damage at all. I can surely live with that and it saved my central, hell, it saved my vision in that eye!

I’m so happy to say I’m back and ready to write! My eye surgery worked and I’m thrilled! Besides that, I’ve missed my social networking, writing and reading your blogs!

Keep On Bloggin’!

Update. 

Unfortunately, although I did everything right this failed. I had to have it done again immediately. Again, I beat the small odds that it wouldn't happen again, yet I can't win the lottery or anything else for that matter.

My retina finally stayed down. I can see but the middle of my vision is damaged making it hard to read at times when I really notice it. My good eye is really bad now with floaters that are in the way of my vision. I don't write as much because of it. Lucky for me when I ride my bike outside and look around it's still beautiful.

In the next 4 short years, my life went to hell. My favorite aunt and mother died. My brother didn't tell me my mom was dying until it was too late for me to see her! Afterward, I got no closure. 

My roommate lost his permanent job, I lost my alimony and rent/bills kept going up. I gained a lot of weight and suffered the worst depression of my life. I lost my savings accounts which dwindled to nothing paying bills beyond my means. My health was on the verge of completely failing. I had nowhere to retire.

Don't Wait For Someone To Save Your Ass

You know, the only one who cared to save me was myself? I looked in the mirror one morning (opiate addicted, depressed, and fat) and "something clicked". I think it was self-preservation fighting its way through the fog because I was truly, finally, and thoroughly disgusted and embarrassed at what I saw looking back at me. 

It took one millisecond at a time because real change happens slowly and is full of pain when you are alone.

I did many things (I've already written about on Bike With Bekkie) to get to where I'm at today. Without daily exercise, something I could do that made me feel better, something that I enjoyed-I wouldn't have made it. Especially over the long haul because it's been over 3 years now. It wasn't easy, the changes I made were depressingly slow but once I gained momentum it's all good habits now.

Once you reprogram your thinking and acting it becomes your way of doing. So make it good. I was in a very dark place. 

I may not have much (a bicycle and a car are about it) but from my bike seat, things look a lot brighter now. The world is still turning, the sun is still shinning and me, I'm still in it to win it!


Today is good. Thanks for reading!

10 comments:

  1. I am SO pleased to read this Bekkie, a horrible couple of months for you I know, but thank goodness that is all in the past now. sending you big Happy Hugs :):):) xxx

    ReplyDelete
  2. Excellent news, Bekkie. Great to have you back in the saddle.

    ReplyDelete
  3. So glad to here that you are on the mend. What a scary time you went through. Loosing your eyesight is totally frightening.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Thanks for the update, Bekkie, miss you ... Love, cat.

    ReplyDelete
  5. I want to thank you all, not only because you care...(love you so,) but because it meant so much to me to have your support during this uncertain time! I'm so lucky to have you as friends! You all have your own lives to worry about so I feel blessed to have you think about little ole' me! I don't have family that supports me but it's OK because I have beautiful souls like you in my life. I'm going to have to catch up with what you've been up to (or blogging about) and I look forward to it! Hope you all are doing well, I am really quite chocked up about your support during my eye surgery. I can't thank you enough but I'll try! Tee hee! Hugs all around and it's time to start writing again! ♥

    ReplyDelete
  6. hey steph here aka creeping death hope your feeling better i aint been around as i hav been busy just poped on to see whats been going on take care love you xxx

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Whatcha doing that is keeping you so busy? I miss you and hope you can drop in more often on either BlogSpot of mine! I'd love to chat with you again Steph, can we make it happen? Have a great weekend! TGIF! Love you too!

      Delete
    2. BTW why aren't you Followering me on my BlogSpots anymore? I noticed you dropped out of both of them. Big hug!

      Delete
  7. Wishing u a day soft as silk…..
    White as milk…..
    Sweet as honey&full of money.
    May all ur dreams come true….
    Hugs and Kisses..

    .·´ ¸.·*´¨) ¸.·*¨)
    (¸.·´ (¸.·` Snow White..

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Such a nice poem Snow, thank you! I have missed you so much! Now that my eye surgery is healed pretty much I'll be online a lot more and will be able to come and read your blogs. You used to be on my new BlogSpot, Diary Of A Mad Hoosier but I noticed you disappeared. I hope you can Follow me on that new BlogSpot again! Have a great weekend my friend. Missing you and love ya!

      Delete

Bekkie's Wonderland has been around for decades now, it used to be at MySpace until I moved it to Blogger. I've covered a plethora of subjects but due to its longevity and changes in the internet it's age is showing (as is mine.) I hope you will enjoy as I gently bring it up to date moving towards the uncertain future.