[Ansteorra-chirurgeon] Retinal tear

[Crandall]

Leave town to do some welding, did ya? 
Just an excuse to wear an eye patch, I say. 
Be careful, make Pyro drive as your depth
perception is going to be poor. 

Crandall, Olde Phart 

--- Richard Threlkeld
<rjt at softwareinnovation.com> wrote:

> My EMT training has certainly paid off for me
> personally. I always thought
> it was well worth the cost and time, but never
> expected it to help me
> personally.
>  
> I am in Phoenix taking a class (my wife and I
> just bought a juice bar
> franchise and we are in training). This morning
> I noticed some flashes of
> light in the corner of my right eye when I was
> looking to the left. They
> went away, but I had a "floater" that I had not
> seen before. I went through
> the checklist from my EMT training and at the
> top of the worst case was a
> retinal tear leading to a retinal detachment. 
>  
> I finished class and went to the Sam's club
> down the street to see an eye
> doc, but he was out. I went to an urgent care
> place in the same mall and the
> doc said it looked just fine to him, but he did
> not have all the equipment
> to do a really good job. So I asked for and got
> a recommendation to an
> ophthalmologist who had about 30 minutes till
> closing and was about 3 miles
> away. I called and went to see him. He did a
> normal check and said it was
> all good, but he wanted to do a full check. He
> said the odds were about 0.2%
> that I was right, but he wanted to be sure. I
> said do it. He found a small
> retinal tear in the lower outside area of my
> right eye (the left was in very
> good shape). He said the tears are normally in
> the upper part of the retina
> and gravity then makes them progress faster to
> a detachment. 
>  
> The good news is they can "weld" the retina
> back with a laser in an office
> procedure and they say it will be as good as
> new. I'm go to class in the
> morning then seeing the surgeon at 11AM and
> will be back in class by 2PM!
> Modern technology is wonderful. 
>  
> In service,
> Caelin on Andrede
> >
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