well here we go again
- January 18th, 2014
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I’d just drilled some probably-entirely-unnecessary vent holes in the two tighter-sealing mic cases, and finally got around to packing up the spare ribbon material for the ribbon microphone I’d built after the second eye surgery, and as I was walking upstairs to do some more comping…
…something darted down the centre of my vision.
But only in one eye. And it was repeatable.
Kill. Everything.
So I poked at it a bit, and yep, I have newly asymmetrical peripheral vision. I schedule an emergency doctor’s appointment, who confirms what I already know, and I’m scheduled for emergency surgery on Saturday morning, kill everything.
Anyway. I don’t know how much you’ll see me for the next few days. I’ll be “positioned” for another week, then limited in motion again after that. I won’t be at Conflikt, the songwriting workshop is cancelled, I’ve delayed a bunch of recording sessions indefinitely until we can reschedule, everything’s delayed another two weeks, fuck everything.
See, when this first happened, last October, there were three areas: one where the retina had torn, and two others which showed extremely old physical trauma damage. Dr. Saperstein fixed the tear in surgery, and tried to do some pre-emptive work on the other two areas, as they would fail sooner or later.
This completely failed. A few weeks later, I was back in for round two. I thought I was safe at this point from a round three, and that the pre-emptive work had done some good on the third area, but FUCK ME NO, it tore today, so I’m back in again.
So that’s what happened, and that’s where I am, and where I’m not. I’ll try to set something up so I can blog some and chat while I’m recovering – again – from this. But it resets the clock on vision recovery, I won’t be able to drive for two months – my vision had just got back to 20/20 with correction in the pinhole test, and 20/30 in open field – and… yeah.
I am so pissed off about all this, I don’t even have words. We’ll be shooting through our out-of-pocket for insurance again. What a way to start a year.
I won’t even be able to make a cake for Anna’s birthday on the 23rd. At least there will be presents.
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Tempted to make a trite “third time” joke but resisting.
With a little luck, once this is successfully taken care of you’ll be able to go the rest of a long life with no further vision problems.
Think good thoughts in your direction.
Yeah, Doctor Nr. 3 made that joke yesterday and I thought about punching him. I am way too tired of this shit right now.
This had better be the last round is all I can say.
Shiiiit. I’m so sorry.
Thanks everybody – it’s less the surgery than the recovery, honestly. Almost over it, and BOOM HAVE SOME MORE.
I believe Paul is taking care of the cake; I usually make an ice cream cake or if rushed buy angel food and decorate it with strawberries and chocolate. But I’m pretty sure Paul has a plan.