After being disillusioned by Dr. Woodcomb’s statement "It’s doubtful that Cialis causes any eye problems," I sought a new eye doctor to check out my blood-filled orb. I didn’t know precisely what I did want or need, but I knew what I did not want: a retina specialist. This was a clear hemorrhage...oh, wait..."clear" is really a bad word choice as I was seeing everything through a sheen of bright blood red. Anyhoo, what had occurred was not a retina issue per se, and I sought to avoid having the words diabetic and eye being used to shoehorn me into distraction from the problem at hand.
I ended up seeing Dr. Michael Negrey at Koch Eye Associates. My parents drove me to the appointment. While waiting, they read the resume that Koch provided and were greatly impressed.
I wasn’t so sure. There’s an emotional factor in waking up to a blood filled eye and the inability to do anything for yourself that will cloud anyone’s judgment. I did not like his bedside manner, but I can be pretty rough and gruff myself, so I probably should not criticize. Negrey had a distant and superior manner that I did not care for, but the reality is that his technical ability was more important than his mannerism. His nannerisn quickly manifested as a God Complex.
He prescribed an MRI with concern that I may have ab enlarged thyroid or other foreign growth behind the right eye. I wondered if the thyroid possibility would prove my GP right. Health measured by how I feel had drastically declined under his care. My GP said the health decline was hard living and had nothing to do with me becoming healthier according to his color-by-numbers standards. The MRI came back clear. My mother noted that I had "buggy eyes" since I was a child.
Negrey clearly noted that blood had filled the existing cataract and preplanned surgery for the near future.
But first he wanted me to see Koch’s retina guy, Michael O’Brien.
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