I saw my eye surgeon late last week and everything about my eye is looking good, pun intended. The gas bubble is going down very slowly, but I am getting much better vision in the eye and am getting more confident by the day that my vision will be OK. I’ve cut down on the antibiotics and I’ve also noticed that the pupil in the eye is beginning to return to normal. But it will still take another six weeks or so for the bubble to disappear and in the meantime I’m pretty much sedentary since of course I cannot drive until I’m medically cleared to so do.
So piano practice has recommenced and I’m adjusting much better to looking out of my right eye rather than my left. As well as various technical exercises (yawn…) I’m looking at music by Gottschalk, Granados, Tan Dun, Chopin and Schubert, not necessarily in that order.
Once I get more confident I’ll resume the practice on my CD pieces and hopefully by the time my eye is OK (or even before if things go well in that regard) I’ll start some recording.
I plan to resume my organist duties towards the end of the month, and I’m pleased that I was able to play keyboard for a couple of masses with my son over the weekend without any ill effects. In fact, it seems as though looking through my right eye and being able to see the right hand side of the keyboard better may well be an advantage.
This begs the question as to whether I should have an operation to correct my strabismus, but my retinal surgeon was quite understandably very cautious about this, and I’ll certainly need his clearance before I even take the suggestion seriously.
All in all, I am undoubtedly very fortunate indeed. Like most things of a serious medical nature, this is a definite wakeup call, and I need to take all the advantage I can whilst I still can.
My fingers are feeling good, and the brain seems to be OK so lets get stuck into it…