I felt helpless watching my father struggle through the surgeries accompanied with retina detachment. I remember thinking that a man of that age and caliber should not be undergoing such invasive surgeries. I vaguely remember my childhood, but I do remember the night my father came home from work complaining about his right eye. He mentioned that he could not see well while driving at night and would see flashes of light even though there were no shining lights in the distance. My mother knew from there that something must be wrong with his eyesight, so she made an appointment to visit the optometrist. During the visit to the optometrist, the doctor performed a dilation of my father’s eyes. Within minutes, she concluded that his retina was detaching. My father …show more content…
When he was breaking the news I was shocked thinking how would that be possible because he had never gone through anything drastic to cause any harm to his eyes. With no knowledge about eyesight or the human body, I remember thinking that my father was going to go blind, scared to even think about the surgery. Terrified, I did my research with the help of the library and the Internet. Not only did I learn that the eye as is one of the most fragile parts of the body, I also discovered that retina detachment did not, in fact, cause blindness if one went through surgery. Being a “daddy’s girl” I did not want anyone touching him with blades and going in his eye, but deep down, I knew that this was the only way that he would be able to see better and perform his daily tasks. Within the following year, my father underwent multiple surgeries. Following this scar, I made a decision to make sure my father was always taking care of his eyes, following directions given from his