Right now, she is about to sleep on her stomach, as the bubble inserted behind her eye needs to continually push the bubble onto the retina which detached a few days ago. For the next seven days, her head must stay down. Now, how on earth can you carry out your ablutions with your head down? Retinas detach quickly, with no warning. All of a sudden, after their return from a lovely vacation in Vancouver, Irene could not see out of one eye, except just a bit out to the side. This is a scary thing.
Fortunately, this is not the good old days. Today, with good luck and good surgery, the retina will get stuck back in place. Ken has had three laser repairs to his retina, plus one bubble repair and one buckle making five repairs in all. Certainly not a time to be a sissy. Irene's eye just got grey and then black, while Ken's started with flashing light in his eye. Even now, if lightning flashes Ken will ask me if I saw the flash too. He does not want to have another detached retina and if he does, he must contact the retina center and go there immediately, where the surgery will be done post haste.
They told Irene that having a detached retina was not anything she did or ate but merely the aging process. No one knows how or why. But we wish her well and hope she comes to Nova Scotia this summer to recuperate. It is a good thing she is not a sissy!!
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