Detached Retinas and Other Stories

  It's one of those things, you're just getting back on your feet again, and then the world comes up at bites you in the backside. I seem to be making a habit of getting increasingly worse illnesses. With the latest being problems with both of my eyes.

In October, after seeing flashing lights and a weird shadow in my peripheral vision, it turns out that the retina in my right eye had started to detach. I found out that I have had holes in both my retinas for a long time, which have only recently gotten worse. I have now had surgery on both of my eyes, saving my vision.

I'm sure that some people would approach not going blind with a new lease of life, make the most of each moment of sight, and so on, but it's hard to do that while my eyes still aren't back to normal (my glasses prescription keeps changing as they're healing) and I'm still getting used to the four, new, permanent blind spots in my vision. It's not something you can expect someone to bounce back from with new found purpose like they do in the movies.

I'll start being active and commenting and favouriting again. I had been working up to doing some more art, but then this all happened, so there wont be any drawing from me for the time being.
I hope that everyone understands.