I am back and will catch up with you soon!

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Dear Mylot friends. Thank you to all of your best wishes following my recent problem. I am now ready to come back and start writing again. So on 11th January all of a sudden I could not see. I was immediately told to go to Moorfields hospital in London which is one of the most prestigious eye hospitals in the country. Although there are two other hospitals nearer to my home it was quicker to get up to London. I was seen as an emergency and told that I had a detached retina and they were going to operate straight away!. I know a lot of people are squeamish where eye surgery is concerned but there really was no need to be. At the end of the operation a special gas is pumped into the eye to add pressure to aid healing. This disperses over several weeks or so. The only thing is that it blocks your vision so you can't see out of the eye for a while. but as it disperses more and more vision returns. I was back home within a couple of hours or so and instructed to stay in bed lying flat and only permitted to get up every hour for ten minutes but with my head tilted towards my right shoulder. This is to maintain pressure in the eye with the gas bubble. Then to keep the head tilted all the time after that. My goodness five days lying in bed was like a torture for me. After two weeks I had to return but had to have another op as there was a little bleed in my eye and some scaring. This procedure hurt far more then the original but I laid there thinking no pain no gain but was told that I may need another procedure. For my third appointment this Monday I was told that everything seemed to have gone back to normal and there was no need for further surgery but they will check again in a months time. So the upshot is that they have managed to re attach the retina and all is back to normal. My sight has fully recovered now and next week I will be able to go back to work. I am so very grateful and fortunate that the surgery worked and I am in awe of those clever surgeons who are able to restore peoples sight with their clever skills. Every single person I met during this time were caring and really wonderful. I can not praise them enough. A big thank you to all who made a comment on my original post I am back now and hopefully over the next few days I will try to catch up with everyone!