well here we go again

[solarbird]

I’d just drilled some probably-entirely-unnecessary vent holes in the two tighter-sealing mic cases, and finally got around to packing up the spare ribbon material for the ribbon microphone I’d built after the second eye surgery, and as I was walking upstairs to do some more comping…

…something darted down the centre of my vision.

But only in one eye. And it was repeatable.

Kill. Everything.

So I poked at it a bit, and yep, I have newly asymmetrical peripheral vision. I schedule an emergency doctor’s appointment, who confirms what I already know, and I’m scheduled for emergency surgery on Saturday morning, kill everything.

Anyway. I don’t know how much you’ll see me for the next few days. I’ll be “positioned” for another week, then limited in motion again after that. I won’t be at Conflikt, the songwriting workshop is cancelled, I’ve delayed a bunch of recording sessions indefinitely until we can reschedule, everything’s delayed another two weeks, fuck everything.

See, when this first happened, last October, there were three areas: one where the retina had torn, and two others which showed extremely old physical trauma damage. Dr. Saperstein fixed the tear in surgery, and tried to do some pre-emptive work on the other two areas, as they would fail sooner or later.

This completely failed. A few weeks later, I was back in for round two. I thought I was safe at this point from a round three, and that the pre-emptive work had done some good on the third area, but FUCK ME NO, it tore today, so I’m back in again.

So that’s what happened, and that’s where I am, and where I’m not. I’ll try to set something up so I can blog some and chat while I’m recovering – again – from this. But it resets the clock on vision recovery, I won’t be able to drive for two months – my vision had just got back to 20/20 with correction in the pinhole test, and 20/30 in open field – and… yeah.

I am so pissed off about all this, I don’t even have words. We’ll be shooting through our out-of-pocket for insurance again. What a way to start a year.

I won’t even be able to make a cake for Anna’s birthday on the 23rd. At least there will be presents.

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Comments

[rialian]

===May things go incredibly well this time, to make up for the negative form of suck that you are dealing with...(smiles) The annoyance of things 2013 seems to be continuing a bit into this year...Personally? Going for the hope that the new year start is really the Chinese one this year, and everything rocks out well for the rest. (grins)

[mdlbear]

Wow, that sucks. Third time's the charm?

[solarbird]

The third doctor (the one who confirmed I was right) said that and I was all like. NO. NO, IT IS NOT. Eyes are the window to the soul, not the file system, and I run on considerably more than 16 bits. Also THIS IS FUCKING STUPID FIX IT.

I'm kind of out of patience with all this.

[solarbird]

After all this I need a winning lotto ticket. That's all I'm sayin'.

[batyatoon]

Augh, DAMMIT. D: That sucks. I'm sorry.

I hope you do get a winning lottery ticket to balance this out. Or something.

[solarbird]

That would be lovely, if unlikely. XD