Seeing blood and no vision-what is this?

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Registered: 08-21-2004
Seeing blood and no vision-what is this?
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Sat, 11-25-2006 - 7:19am

If anyone has any knowledge of what this can be let me now how serious it might be. My ex sees blood in his eye and has no vision in that eye. His eye to the observer (although I have not seen it) looks normal.

I guess there are no health boards for eyes here because if you can't see well you can't be on a computer easily. But it seems there should be something on iVillage. I am posting this in a few places hoping someone knows something. I googled this in several ways and did not find an answer.

My son is worried about his father, my ex husband of 30 some years. He is blind in one eye and won't go to the doctor. He sees blood in his eye but when you look at his eye, you see nothing unusual about his eye. I have never heard of this and have no idea what this could be. My ex refuses to see a doctor, says he doesn't believe in doctors. We were hippies together in the seventies and I grew out of it and he did not. Thus we are not married any longer. This world view he has and his mistrust of doctors dates back to those years. BUT my son believes his father is just afraid of what a doc might tell him of the way he has neglected his body for so long. He is very overweight also. And when I last saw him he complained of getting up many times during he night to pee. Well, listening to the drug ads on TV I can guess this is a prostate problem. My dad died of prostate cancer so this is no small thing either but the eye thing is most immediately critical since he drives. He is 65 and if he loses his sight he will be unable to care for himself basically.

My son is going to try to get him to a doctor and I am going to try to influence him too if I can. My ex suggested we all get together to play pinocle and we do get along just fine when we are together. We always have, we can talk for hours. We got along much better unmarried than married. I want to help too but if anyone knows what this might be to encourage him to get to a doctor it would be much appreciated.

Donna

Donna
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Registered: 04-04-2005
Sat, 11-25-2006 - 8:45pm

Hi Donna,


Thank you for visiting our Health & Well-Being message boards.


Photobucket
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Registered: 08-21-2004
Sat, 11-25-2006 - 10:13pm
Yes, he keeps hping it will got away but it has been this way for a week or two so and not gone away so I hope he sees someone soon and thanks for the response. I will let you know what happens.
Donna
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Registered: 03-19-2003
Sun, 11-26-2006 - 1:45am

Hi


I am glad Cindi answered your post.

Hope everyone has a great Summer!

Photobucket
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Registered: 08-21-2004
Sun, 11-26-2006 - 2:25pm

Thanks for responding and hope you got your computer fixed. I am lost when mine goes out.
I emailed my ex and he said he was going to be visiting our son today and that he didn't know what he was going to do yet but thanked me. So we shall see.

Donna

Donna
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Registered: 08-21-2004
Fri, 12-01-2006 - 12:27am

Just an update.
I related the info from Linda on this board to my son and then by email to his father. He agreed to see an eye doc. So I set up an appt for my EH (Ex Husband) with a retinal specialist/surgeon. He said the retina was detached in the left eye and ALSO the right eye had tears in the retina!! He lasered the right one to repair it right in the office and scheduled surgery for the left eye for him the next day at 10am, today. (The actual first appt was Tuesday but we were seriously snowed in and had to delay everything a day. We had both gone over to our son's for Monday night football since our team, the Seahawks, were playing. We had a record snow for Seattle who usually gets little or no snow. So we both ended up spending the night there. I took the couch and he took the spare room, although he offered to take the couch.)

Okay so I took him to the appt yesterday (Wednesday) and then to surgery today (Thursday) and picked him up at the hospital and took him back to our son's where he has been staying during this emergency with the eye. He has to keep his face down tonight and goes in for a post op visit tomorrow and our son is taking him.

He has been very thankful, very relieved, since he could have been blind in both eyes it turns out. The prognosis is good and I so thankful for the information which helped me to get him to get really serious about this. It seems he trusts me, he told our son, and so that is why I stepped in to help. I have great compassion for the guy and it actually feels fabulous to help someone. I want to do more of it.
Thanks again to all who responded and especially to Linda on the Vision Impairment board.

Donna

Donna
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Registered: 03-19-2003
Fri, 12-01-2006 - 12:36am

Hi Donna


Thank you for taking the time to update us.

Hope everyone has a great Summer!

Photobucket
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Registered: 08-21-2004
Fri, 12-01-2006 - 12:54am
Thanks for the support from all of you. This is such a great community!
Donna