NarcKiddo, Little2Nothing, Blueberry, Hope and san, thank you so much for being here and understanding. And anyone else who reads here, thank you, too! I appreciate you all so very much
I've been trying to write a post for ages and really struggling with words. I was having some strange symptoms with my vision and having intense health paranoia as a result of that, irrationally fearing the very worst. Well, yesterday I went to the eye doctor and found out that I have a detached retina in my left eye. Which is scary, but not as scary as the stroke or brain tumour I was worrying about. "Easily treatable", I'm told. Easy for who, the doctor? Doesn't sound like it will be very easy for me. I'm having surgery tomorrow morning, which will be followed by a recovery period of unspecified length, at least one week, during which I will have to literally keep my head down. As in, pointed towards the floor. I'm renting special furniture to keep my head in the correct position for sitting and sleeping. Not sure how the rest of life will work with that. I guess I'll find out. It will take several weeks after that for my vision to return. But again, at least it's not a stroke or a brain tumour or anything else permanently disabling, and my vision is expected to return. I've handled my anxiety pretty well so far despite how big a fear and trigger the thought of losing my vision is for me.
I've been trying to write a post for ages and really struggling with words. I was having some strange symptoms with my vision and having intense health paranoia as a result of that, irrationally fearing the very worst. Well, yesterday I went to the eye doctor and found out that I have a detached retina in my left eye. Which is scary, but not as scary as the stroke or brain tumour I was worrying about. "Easily treatable", I'm told. Easy for who, the doctor? Doesn't sound like it will be very easy for me. I'm having surgery tomorrow morning, which will be followed by a recovery period of unspecified length, at least one week, during which I will have to literally keep my head down. As in, pointed towards the floor. I'm renting special furniture to keep my head in the correct position for sitting and sleeping. Not sure how the rest of life will work with that. I guess I'll find out. It will take several weeks after that for my vision to return. But again, at least it's not a stroke or a brain tumour or anything else permanently disabling, and my vision is expected to return. I've handled my anxiety pretty well so far despite how big a fear and trigger the thought of losing my vision is for me.