{"id":14166,"date":"2011-02-19T18:48:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T01:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14166"},"modified":"2011-02-19T18:48:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T01:48:41","slug":"the-blindsided-realtor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14166\/the-blindsided-realtor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blindsided Realtor"},"content":{"rendered":"

On January 31st I had a catastrohic retinal detachment in my left eye that rendered me blind (black, nada) for two days.\u00a0 Two days later I had retinal surgery to repair the detachment.\u00a0 This included injecting and filling my eye with silicone oil to keep the retina in place and the intraocular pressures where they needed to be.\u00a0\u00a0 In a followup visit four days later I had additional laser surgery to tack down the areas of the retina that needed it.\u00a0 I was told during this time to lie face down 24 hours a day to keep the silicone oil pressing against the back of the eye.<\/p>\n

Then, one week after the surgery I began to see a black shade covering my eye once again.\u00a0 The retina had detached once more, and so for a few more days I was not just legally blind (the effect you get with silicone oil and the regular run of the mill retinal detachment surgery), but black, dark and very disturbingly blind.\u00a0 It seems that the retina had not\u00a0only detached, but there had been formation of retinal scar tissue in the wrong place.\u00a0 This is a very serious condition called proliferative vitreal retinopathy (PVR), and if left uncorrected almost always results in permanent blindness.<\/p>\n

Well, you’re saying, this is a real estate blog; not a Jerry Springer show or even an Oprah event.\u00a0 And you all know that I’m writing this because I’ve had some sort of epiphany…right?<\/p>\n

In truth, there hasn’t been an epiphany yet, and there might not be one.\u00a0 I started off asking myself if there were any other “blind” Realtors functioning in America.\u00a0 Turns out there’s a quite successful, totally blind, real estate agent in La Jolla.\u00a0 So my hopes of being important because I couldn’t see just simply faded to grey like in a bad B-movie.\u00a0 And any hopes I had for this being just a good story that I could share around the water cooler died this past week.<\/p>\n

I was sent to USC Doheny Eye Center in Los Angeles by my surgeon here in La Jolla.\u00a0 Was told his group was the Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On January 31st I had a catastrohic retinal detachment in my left eye that rendered me blind (black, nada) for two days.\u00a0 Two days later I had retinal surgery to repair the detachment.\u00a0 This included injecting and filling my eye with silicone oil to keep the retina in place and the intraocular pressures where they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,212,2,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-big-mother","7":"category-flourishing","8":"category-general","9":"category-group-therapy","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":921,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/921\/are-appraisers-being-pimped-as-involuntary-seeing-eye-dogs-for-the-congenitally-blind-avms\/","url_meta":{"origin":14166,"position":0},"title":"Are appraisers being pimped as involuntary seeing-eye-dogs for the congenitally blind AVMs . . . ?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 21, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"From this morning's Boston Herald:Appraisers have resented AVMs for years, in part because the computer estimates have cut into appraisal companies\u2019 business. 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