Thank you! I feel a good bit better today. I wouldn’t say I was a basket case, yesterday, it was just a big surprise. He was sure the doctor told him he’d be up and around in two days time. Never said anything about no reading, no normal life activities.
He might have to have his head face down for a couple of weeks. Can only do very light walking around the house, avoid stairs (we have stairs!), no reading (he’s on a computer nearly all day). It just blew us away that they hadn’t mentioned ANY of this. None of it! What do doctors think professional working folks do all day?
Now he suddenly has to help his boss find people to cover for him, and we don’t even know for how long. So sudden we are scrambling to get paperwork done, figure out how to get our cat to not interact with him (that should be fun!), and who knows what else.
Stayed tuned. I’ll try not to bore you all with the details as we move forward, but I do appreciate the prayers.
P.S. I’ve started my Mom’s and Grandma’s favorite novena that Grandma’s best friend shared with her and my mom when my Dad was being sent to war. It’s gotten me through some trying times, before. I know it will help me keep my head on straight at the very least.
Prayers up for you and your hubby. Novena - great. Sounds like a detached retina. Sister in law went through that surgery years ago. Hubby will do fine. My hubby had a detaching retina, caught it in time and they did an emergency fix in the tear at the opthamalogist. He’s been going every 6 months for a checkup and on Monday they told him just once a year now. The staying face down is so important.
“He might have to have his head face down for a couple of weeks.”
My BIL had to do that after eye surgery for an injury. He got a piece of metal in his eye in a work-related accident. His sight was saved, thank goodness!
He was set up with kind of a ‘massage table’ and then he had a big mirror positioned beneath to watch TV, or he could read from below with his ‘good’ eye. It wasn’t fun, but it was better than nothing!