Post-surgery, I have set up my laptop so that I automatically have to look down at the screen and keep my face and eye in the correct 'healing position'.

This is a follow up to https://universeodon.com/@KrajciTom/114235557537292237

Surgery to correct a detached retina happened two days ago. (Fast medical response!)

I've been working hard to heal as fast as I can.

Surgeon tells me to keep my head down as much as possible, so I arrange pillows to sleep or nap on my stomach without pressing on my eye.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retinal_detachment

At the 24-hour post-op checkup, the surgeon only had to glance briefly inside my eye before he said everything looked good and said I could go go home...come back in a week for another checkup.

The surgery was performed in El Paso, and a gas bubble was deliberately left in my eye. My home in the mountains is at high elevation. Until that bubble disappears, I have to convalesce in the Tularosa Basin.

A day before surgery, my peripheral vision loss was a small black cloud. A day after surgery it was a light gray cloud. This morning, it's hard to notice the vision degradation in that area. This is encouraging progress.

You can tell a lot about a person by looking into their eyes, more specifically, retinal scans offer non-invasive views of the central nervous and circulatory systems and can diagnose non-ocular diseases like Parkinson's even before symptoms.

https://researchinenglish.com/article/2025.2/new-retinal-scan-ai-finds-disease-indicators-c53gok7m?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Graduate Student in Retinal Biology

University of Alberta

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-alberta-27778-graduate-student-in-retinal-biology/?feed_id=91963

#induced_pluripotent_stem_cells #lipids #mammalian_cell_culture #peroxisome #retina #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-alberta-27778-graduate-student-in-retinal-biology/?feed_id=91963

And it's out! The latest edition of the #Deafblind Association NZ newsletter, with updates about Conference 2025, the #consultation, the #RNZFB AGM, and the upcoming #Innovation in #Retina #Research symposium :)

https://mailchi.mp/63097ad8af64/be-seen-be-heard-be-connected-rmere-friday-7-february-2025