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Dr tweeten3/6/2023 My list went like this: I won’t be on the computer for hours without a break. A tear wiggled out of my favorite eye (it’s the left one.) I began the Holy Barter, which is my term for promising the Spiritual Universe to do ANYTHING for another chance. She left me alone with this mind-numbing remark, “It’ll be just a minute, Dear.”ĭear? I was about to fall into a black abyss and somehow this young stranger managed to make it worse. I have a three-second attention span so it took four tries to get it right. “Just stare at the colored lines and don’t blink for six seconds,” she said. I sat where instructed and placed my chin in the designated slot. She probably had 20-20 vision and secretly pitied my older, frightened eyes. My thoughts were erupting like microwave popcorn as the perky assistant led me to a strange machine. How could I exist without seeing my grinning Studley bring me coffee every morning, or watch my extraordinary grandchildren blossom into exquisite youngsters, or visually feast upon the multiple splendors of outdoor Idaho? How would I know if my purse and shoes were coordinated? And, horrors, what if I accidentally opened a cheap Chardonnay instead of a rich Cabernet? The pending consequences were more than I could bear. “Holy Crap!” I responded, a bit more animated. “I think we need to do a test for macular degeneration,” my eye doctor mumbled as he nonchalantly studied the results of my exam. For some much-needed humor, here’s a blog post I wrote several years ago about my eye problems. I wish she would come back because it’s happening again. My sweet mother came to stay with me after the operation. I remained in the hospital overnight with my eyes bandaged. I deserve an award for that because I watched as the doctors at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City propped open each eye, lifted, and lasered each one. I refused anesthesia because I was pregnant. )įorty years ago when five-months pregnant with my daughter, I needed surgery on both eyes to fix retinal detachments. Tweeten is taking care of me, as he has for 30 years. My talented and competent ophthalmologist Dr. But, looking on the bright side (without pain), my left eye is fine. The condition is exacerbated by myopia and chronic ocular migraine headaches. ![]() There was some bleeding and now hairy ants are crawling around in my eye, and it’s rather irritating. (Note: I need to stay off social media and computer screens for awhile because of a hemorrhage in a posterior vitreous detachment in my right eye.
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