… a plurality of methodologies for performing taxidermy on a feline - in this case, disposing of the gas bubble in my eye. You can wait for it to slowly disappear, as I did some months back, or else you can take more drastic and somewhat faster measures, like having another operation on the same eye …
… which is what happened to me last Saturday. The eye had been feeling a bit ‘tight’ on Friday night but that may have just been due to tiredness. When I woke up the next morning I knew instinctively that I needed some urgent treatment on the eye and so I booked myself into the Sydney Eye Hospital again. It turned out that the scar tissue in my eye had tightened and I had two small tears in the retina which in fact had pulled quite a bit of the retina away from the eye. Nothing of course that my trusty eye surgeon couldn’t fix, which he did in the afternoon (people of his quality don’t get weekends off – emergencies don’t happen 9-5 on weekdays) but this time to ensure that the retina stays on I have silicone oil in my eye rather than the gas bubble.
Of course, the oil has a completely different refractive index to the fluid that was previously in there and in fact I can see much more clearly through the left eye than I could before, even allowing for the normal distortion and fluid effects. I’ll get a new lens for my glasses next week, because the one I got a few weeks ago is now so far out that looking through it all I can see is a blur, no kidding.
Where does this leave the piano? In the same place, mentally as well as physically. Although I really shouldn’t do it yet, I have played the piano since the operation and am pleasantly surprised by how well it is coming out from my fingers. I have a suspicion that once my settles down I will be doing some recording so I will go back over my plans and programme and see what I think needs changing, if anything.
The next couple of months could be quite productive musically.