M*M, Already had other (left) eye done the end of March - that was the difficult one that was not a piece of cake 'cause I had 3 surgeries - cataract and 2 retina procedures. The gas bubble (sort of an internal bandage that they placed in the eye) prevented me from having the cataracts removed in the right eye until after it went completely away (absorbed).
I don't think I mentioned back then how the discharge nurse (later found out she was from a temp agency) didn't follow protocol when I was leaving to get in the car. She was supposed to walk me arm in arm to the car and didn't. So, I had to walk, practically blind, with the surgery eye bandaged and the other eye severely clouded with the cataracts to the car by myself. Short distance, but I had to walk real slowly since I couldn't see if there was a curb cut, or not. The nurse was at the door watching and she knew I couldn't hardly see because I'd had to ask for assistance to the bathroom just minutes before that. I did call a few days afterwards and, after asking about the proper procedures and finding out that they weren't followed, I told the administrator what happened. I opted to have the 2nd eye surgery at a different, closer facility even though they had reassured me that what had happened would not be repeated.
Anyway, I'm all done (crossing fingers) except for follow-up visits and getting glasses.
Found out yesterday from the retina drs office that they have been battling with my ins (BC/Blue S.) with appeals to denials for getting approval for another follow-up visit and they had to re-schedule me for that since the ins hasn't made their decision yet. 'toopid ins people don't know how important it is to have multiple follow-up visits after a major retina surgery 'cause there's a greater risk in having another retina tear occur during the first year after the surgery.
My severe vertigo might have been caused by a work injury to my head, something that I didn't realize until years later, making it too late to file for workers comp. While working at a really busy fast food joint, I bent down to get something out of a low to the ground freezer. As I came up real fast, my head connected real hard into a top freezer door that had popped opened when someone opened a freezer door on the other side (main freezer area). Caused me to have a splitting headache, but I thought that was it as the vertigo didn't show up for few weeks. It was a few years before I found the ear doctor who did all that testing. Before that, another ear doctor thought the vertigo had something to do with a congenital defect seen in an xray of my sinuses. He wanted to do sinus surgery, but I ended up nixing that idea as there were too many possible serious complications.
Reason I mentioned the folding chair is because I've seen some crossing guards around here use them as there must be a lot of time in between having people wanting to cross (sometimes).
Edited to add Blue S. as Lithium was bleeping out part of the name of my insurance company (LMBO).
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