Lilly: Dearest Olivia, just talked about you with Mark and remembered our delightful stay at your place. Hope you two are fine.
Olivia: Hello dear Lilly, I'm so thrilled that your stay here brings back such happy memories. :o)
Olivia: More drama with Bill... He had an emergency op on his eye due to retina displacement. 5 tears in the retina... As you can imagine we've now learned a great deal about the eye! LOL
Lilly: Oh my dear Olivia! Now thank you for the update on Bill, we are all worried then. A torn retina and a new operation. How did it happen??
Lilly: Exertion, sudden movement, weakened veins? What are the prospects? Please tell us more.
Olivia: There were 5 tears and probably caused by the cataract op. The doc is happy with the progress after a week of recovering the eye.
Lilly: Can Bill use the eye?
Olivia: He can see some fuzzy outline of objects. Colour is distorted, mainly green and blue.
Lilly: And what are the prospects?
Olivia: Progress will be slow up to 6 months of vision gradually changing. He has to to take things easy and only gentle walks.
Lilly: I suppose that suits him fine. Him always preferring a sedentary lifestyle.
Olivia: But one obvious torture: during this time alcohol, in any form, is strictly forbidden.
Lilly: How is he coping?
Olivia: Barely so. I gave up hope long ago. But so far he's been dry.
Olivia: At this stage the doc says his vision should return. This is encouraging.
Lilly: Fingers crossed!!
Lilly: Please give Bill our love!
Bill had an emergency op in his eye due to a retina displacement. He had 5 tears in his retina, probably caused by the cataract op. Now he's recovering and he can see some fuzzy outline of objects, with distorted colors. He needs to reduce his physical activity and refrain from alcohol.  