My eyeball...

The right one to be exact. It has a detached retina. Kind of like looking through a dirty spot on my glasses lens. First cropped up sometime in the last couple of weeks (is it coincidence it was after I had a colonoscopy? Just how far Doctor...?) and I guess I should have had it checked out then. Anyway I got checked out by my eye guy yesterday and a specialist that comes up from Houston every couple of weeks to Lufkin today and this is the guy that will do my surgery.

Surgery will be in Houston on Friday. Out patient, but need to stay in town to have things checked out Saturday morning before heading back to Lufkin. I will be off work two weeks. I'll be sleeping sitting up, no hardship, I can sleep most any position and after that I'll have some weight lifting precautions for about six weeks. Sorry coworkers, no 500 pound patients for me for a while.

As with any surgery, it's a toss up as to how successful it will be. There are three different methods to do this repair and if this one, for simplicity we will call it the "gas bubble method" does not work it's possible we may try another.

As with any event that happens or what ever body part is involved the latest news will be posted here.