Hi;

I'm a 31-year T1 diabetic whose eyes  have suddenly decided to unzip.
After years of light retinopathy, over the past two years I've gone to
proliferative retinopathy with retinal bleeding.  My left eye is worse
than my right.

I've had PRP in both eyes, and about a week ago, my opthamologist found a
retinal tear and tension detachments in my left eye.  So, now I'm going to
have to have a vitrectomy with a bubble placement (the material hasn't
been decided upon yet), laser, and a retinal peeling.

Looking on the web, most of the information I've found is the dry medical
description of the procedures or people who have had vitrectomies in
otherwise healthy eyes.  Has anybody gone through with these procedures?
What can I expect when I go through them?  What kind of ball-park
expectations can I have for the results (i.e. PRP won't improve eyesight,
but will keep it from deteriorating -- what about this stuff)?

Sometimes I think I might have somehow already reached a tipping point of
some kind and wonder whether it would just be a waste of time, money, and
suffering to go through with this operation -- I mean, if I'm going to end
up blind or nearly blind anyway....

Thanks,
PRose