"(Lack of) emergency eye surgery: going blind"

I had been waiting since early morning at the Sydney Eye Hospital. I feel the service I received and the nursing staff I saw were terrible. 

Last month I had emergency eye surgery for retinal tears. Recently a surgeon assured me everything was perfect. Yet despite, what I feel was, the surgeon's self assured arrogance here I am. Blind in the same eye that I feel they sanctimoniously pronounced on in my recent visit. 

There is a chance I can get 80% of my vision back, or so I was told by one of the surgeon's juniors. I was also told that time is of the essence. I have been ready for an operation ever since I presented to the John Hunter Hospital. I offered to travel down the night before to be ready for surgery the next morning. But no, I was told to turn up early the next morning and you will be taken care of. 

I arrived early on the morning of my surgery and waited. I was told I would be operated on in the afternoon. I waited 3 hours past the time they told me. No one knew anything. I imagine the surgeon who seems to have badly diagnosed my eye last week had been on their feet all day, making money. I feel the surgeon's performance is compromised. Into their hands my sight will go, eventually...

This is terrible. I believe the nurses I saw were rude and know nothing. The Sydney Eye Hospital should be ashamed for its lack of care. 

Hopefully I will be operated on and somehow I might even get my sight back. Although who knows. The morning of my proposed surgery I had 50% of my eye had sight. By the evening I was 100% blind in that eye and no one save for me seemed to give a f*** about it. 

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