Dad health thing this time...

[mistressofmuses]

After a couple mom health scares, now it's my dad with a problem. (Fortunately it isn't life-threatening, just crappy.)

The artificial lens in one of his eyes has ~detached~ and is now free-floating in his eye.

(Ick.)

This is not as terrible as the ~emergency retinal reattachment~ surgery that he had to have in both eyes a decade or so ago, but it's still eye surgery which is a big aaaaaaaaa from me.

He went in for a consultation on Monday, which he was hoping would mean surgery on Tuesday or Wednesday... instead they booked him for an additional appointment to do the needed measurements for a lens, and then didn't have an appointment for the surgery itself until April 8th. Which feels like a long time to go around with something like that.

I know he's had to cancel most of his music gigs and such because of it, though I think he kept one of them a few days ago. I don't know if he's able to go to his "regular" job at all.

Luckily the surgery center did have a cancellation, and now he's booked for April 2nd, which is better!

I'm sure I'll get all the gory details of what the surgery entails the next time I see him. I remember how horrifying every part of the retinal reattachments sounded and I hope this one is at least slightly less so.

Bleh.

Comments

[umadoshi]

Eeeeeeep. (I too have eye-related squicks and shudders, so extra sympathy on that aspect.) I'm glad they got him booked in so quickly, and I hope it all goes smoothly.

Too much stress, dammit!

[mistressofmuses]

I am sooooo squeamish about eyes! I am very glad they got him in sooner than originally planned, and hopefully it'll all go as well as possible!

Definitely ready for the stressful situations to take a damn break.

[spikedluv]

That does sound ick! (I learned how to touch my eyeball when I had contacts, but I still don't like the idea of surgery.) It's so frustrating these days when appointments, especially for that kind of surgery, have to go out so far! I hope everything goes well (and that he's okay until then).

[mistressofmuses]

Ugh, I am SO touchy about my eyes. I tried contacts... once... but couldn't get them to work for me. Trying to apply eye-liner is a frustratingly long process when I actually attempt it, haha.

Agreed on the frustration about how far out the dates for surgeries and such are. It seems to be a constant struggle to get timely care, and often it leads to a lot of extra pain and suffering in the meantime. :/

Definitely hoping it all goes well. Glad the date got moved up by nearly a week.

[olivermoss]

I hope he's better soon and you don't need to hear any more details of it!

[mistressofmuses]

Thank you! I hope so, too. I'll listen to the gory details if he feels the need to share them, but I'll be theatrically shuddering the whole time.

[scarlipswolfwife]

Big hugs to you and your dad. Eye stuff, though. Very ick, much wow. I hope his recovery is swift!

[mistressofmuses]

Thank you.

Ugh, eye stuff! I hate eye stuff!

[omens]

That is terrifying!! Eyes D: I see it's his day today, I hope it goes well!

[mistressofmuses]

Ugh, eye-scream indeed. Eye stuff is so squicky to me.

Sounds like it went well, though he said it hurts quite a lot. Follow up appointment to check on it tomorrow!