.  -My 41+ years as a juvenile onset diabetic (Type 1) has finally caught up with me.

In mid 2019 I started experiencing retinal hemoraging in both eyes.  Since then I have had a dozen or so injections between both eyes to calm the hemoraging down until the floaters cleared enough LASER surgery to seal the leaking areas of my retinas.  I had an Opthalmologist appointment last week and got another injection in my L eye. She wanted to do a LASER procedure then on my R eye. My brother was due in for a weekend visit and I did not want to lose that time with him (1-2 day recovery) so I postponed. I was told to set an appointment for 1-2 weeks.  I called Monday. The earliest available appointment was for late Sept. I booked that date.  Yesterday afternoon the Doc office called and had a cancelation opening up an 08:05 LASER procedure slot for this AM. So I took it.

All in all, it was fairly anticlimactic though I am now the proud owner of what my DW refers to as "zombie eye" on the R side of my face.  Another session is booked for the R eye in mid Oct. Then probably two sessions for my L eye and a retina pucker removal on my R eye after that and hopefully my aging diabetic eyes will get g2g for another few decades.  Though I am already informed that I will at some point have to have cataracts removed. Ugh. Getting older sucks.

The Doc is extremely talented though she has the "bedside manner" of Atilla the Hun.  Today she finally laughed as we worked through the 9 or so pain med injections in my R eye before the LASER fry fest.  I think I am wearing her down.

Then my DW had a Gyno appt to have an IUD removed and replaced.  That hurt. She came home and immediately headed to the bathroom to throw up.  I felt bad that I could not drive her to her appointment.  I was recovering from my morning eyeball session.

We are both on a health improvement journey together.  We did a doc managed weight loss program in 2017-18.  DW lost 100Lbs and I lost 80Lbs.  SInce then we have both put on about 40. 6wks ago we both got sicke of that direction and re-engaged on the program.  In the past 6wks I have lost 22Lbs, she has lost 15Lbs.  

So, all things considered, painful procedures not withstanding, things are going pretty well.

Thanks for reading my off topic blather.