[Magdalen] Prayer request

[Marion Thompson]

This rather sounds like wet macular degeneration and the injections of 
Visudyne that may be the treatment.

Marion


On 10/26/2016 4:11 PM, Ginga Wilder wrote:
> Praying for you, Renee, that you can have relief from your retina
> problems.  Praying for The Man, for continued good recovery from
> pneumonia.  May all the work you have to do be a blessing, rather than
> multiple stressors.
>
> (((((((Renee)))))))
> Ginga
>
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Louise Laughton <llaug at twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> Have had two — count 'em two — shots into my left eyeball, the most recent
>> last Thursday, 10/20. It isn’t a lovely experience, but it’s not nearly so
>> bad as it sounds. They numb the eye. The shot itself is really quick, and
>> the discomfort afterward is low-key, or has been for me. This isn’t
>> something you’ll recommend to all your friends, but it truly isn’t so
>> horrible as it sounds. Like yours, my diagnosis is ‘iffy,” but these
>> injections are my doctor’s choice of treatment. For a while, it was “wait
>> and watch,” but then things took a downward turn, and he decided to treat
>> it. Whatever “it” might be. There will be more of the injections at
>> widening intervals, the next in early December. The first two shots were a
>> month apart.
>>
>> On Oct 26, 2016, at 3:21 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On 26/10/2016 16:59, flyingfish224--- via Magdalen wrote:
>>> If it is not one thing, it is another...
>>>
>>> I see the retina specialist tomorrow for my right eye...too complicated
>> to explain, since there is no firm diagnosis...but conversations about
>> injections into my eyeball.  EEEK and GROSS!  I am terrified...(of vision
>> loss, not the shots)
>>
>> I empathise with your shouts of anguish. The prospect would terrify me -
>> it was bad enough having laser surgery to cauterise a burst blood-vessel in
>> my eye. I would need to be out cold before anybody approached my eye with a
>> sharp instrument or needle. You assuredly have my prayers.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>