Actually it was…

Well we went to see the retina specialist yesterday. He is Dr frick from the frick and frack show from my hospital stay.

Come to find out I actually had an eye stroke aka retinal ARTERY occlusion not the retinal VEIN occlusion that he had written in a letter to me in the hospital. So all last night I spent researching this new medical term thrown at me. I really wish doc’s would get the stuff together!

Basically the appointment was a waist of my time, the specialist only wants to look at you and not explain ( esplane Lucy) anything useful. It is sort of funny that you basically know you are blind on that eye and their ain’t a whole lot you can do about it, but the cringe on the docs face is priceless when they are telling you bad news.

[The last time I Saw this guy I was taken by wheelchair from the neuro step down unit about an hour after having my spinal drain removed (note to hospital staff: 24 hrs flat on the back, no sitting after removal of the lumbar drain ok? It hurts your patient), to his clinic adjacent to the hospital. By the time we reached his clinic the headache was so bad I instantly dropped from the wheelchair to the cool floor. And laid there until he came in to do a floricin (sp?) scan then it was right back to the floor, up for another test then straight back to the floor. This went on for about an hour. They finally called for a gurney because I refused to get back in the wheel chair]

At yesterdays appointment they ended up doing an eye exam, asking me to cover my left eye and read the eye chart. I came back with “what chart?”. Then the right eye was covered and I said “oh the eye chart with the humongous E on it!” 😉 then the pin hole test (those eyeglass with a bunch of holes init) same thing nothing on the right great on the left. They dilated both my eyes and i was sent to the waiting room. We ran over to Dr Bs office right next door, while the eyes dilated, to have my stitch removed that was accidentally missed on my last appointment. He was not there but his nurse was, she proceeded to play with 6 stitches that i did not know about then called in a doc to assist. I mentioned to the doc while she was wrecking havoc with my incision “I think I have a sinus infection” out comes the scope into the nose. She said she will call dr B and let use know after we get done with dr fricks eye exam.

We head back over for the slit lamp that blinded my good eye for a few seconds and no sign of light in the right. Dr Frick said ok looks good see you in 6 weeks. I have very little confidence in Dr Frick so I can’t wait for July 20th to go to the Shiley eye center.( I can self refer for an opinion but if any procedures need to happen I will have to wait until the Insurance company gets the authorization that they are working on for me.)

After leaving Dr Fricks office, We head over to find out that dr B wants my on cipro antibiotics ASAP. They have called it in. We head out to the car pay for parking and I brush my hand over my hair an there is still that one stitch I wanted removed. FML

If you look closely you will see the Blue Stitches that Dr B had to remove