When the news you get, isn’t the news you want…
My Husband, Phil, gets regular injections to his eyes for complications from diabetes. (DME) Yes, it's as bad as it sounds. It's been happening for over three years now.
Two weeks ago He saw the doctor for His regular appointment. The doctor asked the staff to go ahead and scan both eyes, not just the left. It wasn’t good news. The swelling in that right eye was back. It’s been stable for two years; it’s just been the left eye being treated. He told Phil to come back in two weeks for an injection in the right eye.
Well, we went in today for that injection. The scan wasn’t any better today. The pressure in the eye, which had been hovering around 16-18, was at 25. Now I don’t know exactly what is being measured or what units that’s measured in, but that big of a jump isn’t positive.
At the end of today’s appointment, the doctor asked us to come back in a month for a re-scan and to talk about a plan for going forward. He didn’t give any indication to Phil as to exactly what that means.
These appointments have never been easy for me, i know they are hell on Phil, but they’ve gotten to be almost “old hat.” Until today.
He is concerned, my stomach is in knots, and the anxiety is knocking on the door, softly, but knocking. i know that we will weather whatever storm this brings. It’s just the waiting that’s hard.
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