Eye sight

Well I do have a detaching retina, that's the bad news, the good news is that there is no tear in it so I don't require surgery. At least, not yet. My eye is cloudy (on the inside, looks fine) and I've got what they call floaters and occassionally I get light flashes which look like a bolt of lighting went off in my eye but this sac in my eye is collapsing on itself. When is gets bad I'll know immediately, the doctor told me I'd get a black dot on my eye the size of a fly, that the time to go to the hospital so I'm wondering if they can do the surgery earlier (now) so it doesn't happen while I'm traveling in a foreign country. That would scare the shit out of me.
I have a friend whose daughter broke her leg in Algeria and had one operation there, went to Germany had two and when she returned to the US she had to have 3 to fix the mistakes of the first 2. When you travel buy travel insurance you don't want to be stuck in some foreging country without money to pay for treatment and you'll max out your credit cards and ATM.
But I'm lucky to have a clear field of view which allows me to see straight ahead out of the eye and the vision is correctable to 20/20 which surprised me. So tomorrow I'll have to find a dive shop and buy a new mask with the propper lenses in it. Yeah, they can do that now. They already have the lenses ground to fit the mask they just pull one out and pop it in and seal the mask. Unbelievabel.
I lost my Ray Ban Aviator sun glasses that I've had for over 30 years, they were gold filled and had cable wrap arround temples which allowed me to turn my head while riding my Harley without them flying off, on a white water rafting trip. My friend felt terrible for me but I told him It was a sign for me to start looking at life in a new way. We had just signed our corporation paper the night before and we are now a legal and legeitment business registered in Costa Rica. Not that we weren't before but now I'm the only other office who can sign legal documents for the corp. I've had a new pair of sport frames made specifically for people who wear glasses and have and active life style, good for volley ball, rafting, hunting, sky diving and every thing else. So it's time for a new vision on life and life is looking good.

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