Now it is 14 months after the fifth and, at this point, last surgery on my right retina. My eye, which has proliferative vitro retinopathy (PVR), is stable, though it has oil inside, which distorts my vision. On a retina listserv that I read regularly, I’ve noticed that several people who have been through multiple surgeries … Continue reading
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Detached Retina-PVR: A Low Vision Specialist’s Huge Tape Tip
I’ve always thought of myself as a cup-half-full person. Just about any time that something hard or challenging occurs, I’m out there trying to help solve the problem or at least make things better. My continuing retinal detachments (a.k.a. proliferative vitreoretinopathy or PVR) together with oil that may never be removed from my eye, have … Continue reading
Detached Retina: Understanding that My Eye Won’t Ever Be the Same
Any time a person goes through a big change in life, a seminal event usually occurs to make that individual recognize that the change is becoming a normal part of life — permanent even. The seminal event in my right eye detached retina saga occurred a few days ago at a regular appointment with my … Continue reading
Detached Retina: Another Vitrectomy Treating My PVR
I’ve just returned to the hospital for another surgery on my right eye. My retina condition has a name — proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) — which basically means that, so far, my retina keeps detaching. When I last reported on my detached retina issues, I explained how oil was placed into my eye to hold the retina in place. … Continue reading
Detached Retina – I’ve Got Oil in My Eye
This post is not a substitute for talking with your physician. Since oil was put into my right eye to hold my retina in place for several months, I’ve been humming an old Sunday School song, “Give Me Oil in My Lamp,” last sung, by me anyway, some time ago. The only difference is that … Continue reading
Detached Retina Problems Still – A Marathon, Not a Sprint
I first began writing about detached retinas here on As Our Parents Age because I found few, if any, blog posts that described the experience objectively and without what I call the “poor-little-old-me” perspective. I also thought that these eye problems had to do mostly with aging, a pertinent topic on this blog. Who knew, … Continue reading
Detached Retina Problems — Still Not Over
This post is not a substitute for consulting your physician. Eye care is critical as we age, and retina health figures in prominently. I am aging some in-depth experience in retina treatments. After a vitrectomy in each eye, I hoped that I was finished with retina problems. I was thrilled with my new vision after … Continue reading
And There Was Sight! A Coda for Retina and Cataract Issues
Check out the story about my retinal condition in the March 2013 issue of Prevention. The magazine does not allow non-subscribers to access the articles, but if you happen to be in the grocery check-out line, you can read about many of the eye problems that people experience as they age including the detached retina … Continue reading
Understanding My Aging Eyes After My Detached Retina
I’ve written several posts about eye medical care (post on cataracts – posts on detached retinas). Sometime soon I will share a bit more about my experience with cataract surgery — mine occurred several weeks ago. Recently I discovered a terrific eye education resource. If you are trying to make sense of the medical health of your … Continue reading
Grab Bars and Railings, Not Just for Elders: My Cataract
Who knew that when we installed all sorts of grab bars and railings in our house — intended to help our elder parents — they would be useful to me years before retirement? I am using these accommodations all the time just now because I have a cataract, and those relative small but important changes … Continue reading
Finding and Wearing Protective Sunglasses After Detached Retina Surgery
Whether we are talking about the eyes of our senior parents or our own aging adult child eyes, protection from the sun is critical for eye health. Urgent, in fact. The solar shield sunglasses given to me after my eye surgery are comfortable and filter out a lot of the damaging glare and light. They fit right … Continue reading
Detached Retina: Bubbles, Bracelets, and Sunglasses
Three weeks after the vitrectomy for a detached retina I see well out of my left eye. I mostly knew that my sight was returning after the first week of recovery, but other individuals with a detached retina may take much longer to know for sure. The concern about infection, less and less after that … Continue reading
Detached Retina: The Bubble and My Initial Recovery Period
Note: I received a good question asking why my head is up. I had just dressed to go home and the picture was snapped before I looked back down. My first week of recovery, following vitrectomy surgery to repair a detached retina in my left eye, is over. I’ve been thinking a lot about how … Continue reading
Detached Retina: After My First Surgery
My recovery from detached retina surgery seems to be pain-free, but it is arduous, given the need to maintain certain positions for long periods of time. As a person ages, holding these positions must be increasingly difficult. The Sunday morning surgery took place at a local hospital — where the surgery prep and recovery spaces … Continue reading
Detached Retina: The Discovery and Diagnosis
Last Sunday I had retinal eye surgery. Below is the post that I wrote just before leaving for the hospital. I am about to be on my way to the hospital for urgent eye surgery. A few months ago I wrote about eye and retina health after reading an article and remembering my retinal tear … Continue reading
Learning About Retinas: Aging Parents and Adult Children
You can also check out my other posts about eyes and retinas. After going through five cataract surgeries with four senior parents and listening to people fret about floaters in their eyes, I thought I knew a lot about middle age and senior eye problems. But now I know that floaters can lead to flashes which … Continue reading
As Our Parents Age So Do We 