Mead: please forgive me for intruding on your topic.  My sincere
wishes for a healthy outcome on your current situation.

This is just a short, off-topic note to Zetsu, Jason, Otis, and any
others in their category.

Who's going to help these people when -- as may well be your TRUE goal
-- all the eye docs stop participating on this site?

The only one left, really, is Mike Tyner.  Nobody else does anything
more than occasionally drop by and chime in.

The list of names, of docs who've simply STOPPED participating, is
long and distinguished.

And they've all left because of the constant spewing of
unsubstantiated tripe by you and those of your ilk.

I genuinely think there's something deeply sociopathic about your
apparent lack of concern for people like this original poster --
people who come here out of fear, concern, anxiety, or alarm, and who
seek help.

You three -- and others like you -- know nothing about what's emergent
and what's non-emergent.  Your presence here has very little
likelihood of helping anybody, but it has a very realistic probability
of hurting people.

I genuinely think you should seek help for this.  It really does have
markers of antisocial, narcissistic, and/or sociopathic behavior.

First of all, thank you so, so much for these responses, to Ms Brainy
and John. I really appreciate it. I'm trying to post this, but my eyes
are sstill dialated from my visit to the retinal experts last night.
Hopefully, my typing will be OK. I wanted to respond last night, but I
just couldn't see after my treatment.

I did call the clinic and they told me to come right in. The doctor
determined that I didn't actually have a retinal detachment, but he
recommended that I have the peripery of my retina lasered to
strengthen it, because it looked weak (search on "lattice
degeneration", which I will do later, when I can see better). The
weakness left it prone to small tears which could lead to retinal
detachment in the future. Even with the treatment, the eye must be
closely watched. I underwent that tlaser treatment last night, all a
very excruciatingly painful experience of eye-gouging and blinding
light, leaving you with the feeling that your eye can never recover
from the treatment. This morning, I;'m still left wondering if I can
see, but the dialation is still so strong that everything is bleary
and too bright. But I wanted to get off this note of thanks. I was
told to take it easy for a few weeks while the retina forms scar
tissue from the laser burns: no running, falling, jarring, but walking
is OK.

One last side note of interested about the laser treatment. As the
laser is applied, occasionally, nerve endings are hit. This causes a
strange sensation rising up into the eyebrows and forehead, something
like a headache or dull, burning throb. But, compared with the other
eye trauma of gouging and bright lights, these were nothing. Only
after I was released from the torture did those little headaches
become more noticable. Some ibuprofen made them go away.

So far, that's the story. Thanks again for your kind help.