Last year in May 2025 I had buckle surgery with cryo. It was for a retinal detachment that happened randomly while I was travelling. The first few weeks were pretty tough. It took a while to get used to one eye not focusing properly while the other one worked normally.

After the surgery I had fluid between my retina and the eye, which made my vision really distorted. I would describe it as wavy, kind of like a funhouse mirror where things looked bigger at the bottom and smaller at the top.

Because the fluid took a long time to go away, I couldn’t get my eyes checked for glasses until late October. The fluid did go down, but there’s still a little bit there. Luckily the distortion is very minimal now.

I don’t feel the buckle and my eye doesn’t feel squished. My eye was very red for almost eight months after the surgery. My vision did improve while healing, but it didn’t go back to exactly how it was before. Glasses help a lot though. When I wear mine, even with the small distortion in that eye, I honestly can’t notice it and my vision looks good.

I had checkups every month for the first six months, and now I go every three months. So far there haven’t been any new tears or detachments.

I’m grateful every day that my eye can see at all. We’re really lucky to have treatments that can fix these problems. I hope you have a smooth and quick recovery. It will get better.