There’s nothing worse than being neurotic and then being proven to be right
I had a detached retina. It was at the top of my eye, which apparently made it the worst sort. Cataract Guy went into a complex analogy involving wallpaper and bulges. And while he never explicitly said there was an imminent threat to my eyesight, he didn’t have to. He told me I had to go to see Retina Guy, and I had to go right now.
Retina Guy didn’t say there was a threat to my eyesight either. Instead, he asked me when I had last eaten and announced his intention to operate that afternoon. As is standard in these situations, he set about explaining what the procedure involved, but I stopped him when he got to the word “Jelly”. Just put me to sleep and fix it.
Thankfully, he respected this, but did go to some pains to address an issue that had nothing to do with me eye: you’re in shock, he told me. You will be in shock for the next few days. You’ll need to acknowledge that. Just before the operation he visited me again and repeated the advice. He patted me on the arm. It was the arm that I had got my jab in the day before so it hurt, but I did appreciate the gesture.about it, he was correct. Afterwards, I felt frail and anxious.
Yet our story is a relatively mild one. Within a month or so, my eyesight should, hopefully, come back to normal. Every day, people have to deal with far more serious conditions, life-limiting and life-threatening; and while the focus is understandably on the condition itself, the psychological toll it takes on the person and their family can get overlooked. The lives of those doing the caring are also limited, yet they may feel they don’t have the right to complain.
Even the most humdrum tasks can become bent with the strain. When Herself delivered me to the second hospital, she couldn’t come in because of Covid. I got out of the car, and just as I was about the cross the road, she accidently reversed into me. Appropriately, I was in her blind spot.
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