I am here on Aid page to share my story and seek your prayers and assistance or direction for help. I hurt my right eye in October, 2010.
I started seeing branches and droplets in my right eye. I wear contact lenses so I thought I had a dirty lens. I took the lens out but the branches and drops still appeared in my right eye.
In a matter of days, I started losing vision in my eye. From the outside I appeared normal to anyone looking at me. Within two weeks, I couldn't see out of my right eye. I was self employed with no insurance so having to stop work really hurt. With the economy the way it's been, we have not been able to save anything and I could not afford to go to the doctor.
Finally right before Christmas my wife took me to the doctor using some money we received from family members for Christmas. Immediately the doctor advised us I had a detached retina. It had been over six weeks since the incident and the doctor said my eye was dying. We explained why we haven't come in till now. They said they would work out a payment plan with us and scheduled me for surgery the very next morning. I had surgery the next morning and the retina is reattaching, and for this I am very thankful.
However, I have been out of work with no income or any financial assistance. Almost thirty days after the surgery, I still am restricted to inside the house with limited activity as the eye is healing and I have extreme light sensitivity and am taking multiple medications.
I will be having a second surgery in another month to have the oil ball removed from my right eye that was implanted to force the retina to reattach. The recovery from the second surgery is supposed to about four weeks, where the recovery from my current surgery is about eight weeks.
That's a total of twelve weeks from the date of the first surgery of not being able to work and I had to stop working in November because I could not see in my right eye. We owe $5000 for the first surgery and it's going to be about the same for the second. I have no insurance or current way of paying the doctor (or any of our bills, for that matter). We inquired for assistance but because I was self employed when I had the accident, we do not qualify for any assistance.
We are are need of your prayers as well as any direction toward assistance for us. Thank you for your time, prayers and consideration.
