Thanks very much!
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Wait, are we talking about injections into the eye?!?!? JFC dude I’m sorry! I am super disturbed by eyeball stuff. Like I can watch the most extreme horror gore unfazed but the idea of contact lenses freaks me out (I proudly wear glasses). If they told me the future of all humankind depended on me getting injections into my eye I’d be like “well, I guess we had a good run” and then I’d run.
I’m not making fun of your plight, I’m just saying fuuuuuck
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That’s great that there’s treatment if only to arrest the progression. Fortunately the delivery tube only hurts for a second—I was bothered more by the hours of irritation caused by the Betadine antibiotic eye drops they used. Today I have problems at all.
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That was my dad. Stoic to the end.
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I guess I was just sort of skirting around the issue but yes. Maybe I should have been more up front about it. Imagining something can be worse than reality. I forgot about that.
Thanks for the good wishes, guys!
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For what it’s worth, retina specialists can do amazing things these days. I had my left retina partially detach a few years ago, starting at the top of the eye. It got about halfway down (completely blocking my vision) before they could get me in for surgery, There were two small tears in it, and the surgeon was able to get it put back in place and reoriented so well that there is only one small discontinuity in the middle of my field of vision – I’m so used to it now that I have to really look carefully to be able to see it at all.
One nteresting detail of the treatment was that the surgeon injected a small gas bubble behind my eyeball to help hold the retina in place which it reattached. I got to wear a wristband for several weeks to remind me not to travel by air or go hiking above a certain elevation until it had healed adequately. My students applauded the day I came to class without the wristband. 
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Today I have NO problems at all.
Left out the “no”. 
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