Okay, I have had a lot of mails about my eye, some way too long for me
to read with my reduced ability to focus my eyes together, so I will
send a mass update that Bill can run or skip depending on the traffic
levels and his own choices.

Without details: I have had glaucoma for long time and constant care
with many check-ups because I have multiple risk factors that combined
badly. This year my much worse eye finally got a lot worse and neither
the meds nor the laser surgeries were going to be sufficient any
longer. So, in April I was sent to a surgeon for advanced glaucoma
for an assessment and some specialized tests. My ophthalmologist had
expected that I would need an implant but the surgical specialist said
that a filtering bleb would be a better choice for this eye, and that
is actually a smaller operation.

So, almost two weeks ago we went up to Massachusetts for the pre-op
exam that is done the day before and the operation, plus daily
follow-ups every single day of the week. The op itself was two hours of
microsurgery with a sedative cocktail and then only 45 or so minutes
in the recovery room, I guess. Luckily, after the first day I stayed
in a hotel (and later a second hotel when things went on longer than
expected). Unfortunately, I heal too well, and got the bleb flap stuck
so a series of unpleasantries followed from that with me rapidly going
from too high to too low in eye pressure. Being good at healing is
definitely a bad asset when this type of surgery happens.

As of Saturday night I am home again, but in today's exam my pressure
of that eye was back down to 6 so I again have modifications to my
post-op medicine routine, and again have a special contact lens to
increase pressure on that eye, with my next exam in two days. The best
would getting that eye to something in the 10 to 13 range but that
might not be attainable. This lens is NOT constructed with vision in
mind so right now I have extremely little vision in that eye and am
tiring out fast from eye strain.

My better eye is far more protected now, though. Eyes tend to affect
the behavior of each other so the reduction in pressure in my worse eye
now has my better eye at 11 and 12 with its medications used and that
is pretty much ideal.

It is normal for an invasive eye surgery to create a situation where it
can take months to constantly be able to see decently again so people
should not expect me to read mails, answer mails, or look things up to
help them for quite some time. As my eye allows I will do a little here
and a little there, bu that is it. The addresses in my sig lines can
help people find information for themselves.

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http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.miamiferret.org/
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/
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(2010, Steve Crandall)

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