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Hello @retiredteacher
Thanks for offering words of wisdom for @joanem. Words based on life experience are always the most encouraging and helpful.
How is your husband doing?
Take care and thank you again for your contribution to this discussion.
Teresa
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@retiredteacher I wish your husband a successful surgery and rapid recovery. Being able to see clearer again will be wonderful for him, I am sure, particularly since he is a reader.
JK
Hi @retiredteacher I'm so glad that you shared about your husband's eye condition. Fellow Connect member and mentor, Scott, is living with the same condition, learning that he had a stroke in his right eye. I'm sure he would appreciate hearing more about your husband's experience and would be willing to share his journey with you both.
Read more about and reply to Scott on this discussion in the Eye group:
- Central retinal artery occlusion https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/central-retinal-artery-occlusion/
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@hopeful33250. I don't think I have many words of wisdom, but I appreciate you saying that. I have a short time of life experience with diabetes and still consider myself a "newbie." I just try to stay on top of things with research and reading and participating in this forum. There are so many people here who have been living with this disease since they were young, and they have the experience and knowledge. I just take one day at a time and see what happens.
Thanks for asking about my husband. so far this new year 2018 is the year of the eye. He is an avid reader, and after the problems with trying to control his blood pressure, he started feeling pressure in his left eye. We went for our yearly eye check. and the dr. found he has pressure from an artery crimped behind his eye. This in simple terms is an eye stroke. The medical name is long and scary. We will go Monday for him to have a needle put into his eye to drawn the blood out and them there will be injections for the swelling and pressure. Hopefully, this will relieve some of his discomfort. The dr. has told us that it will not correct the damage that has been done, but it will relieve the pressure. We have watched the procedure on UTube, so he is prepared for what the dr. will do. I will be glad when this episode is over and his eye can feel normal again. Then he will have glasses with stronger prescriptions, and hopefully, see clearer again.