In the fall of ‘97, I had a flare-up in that little “hot spot”, I call it, in that area of the sinus bone. Instead of the usual low grade pain I had gotten used to, I was stricken again with the unbearable that makes some people commit criminal acts. I saw the oral surgeon immediately, and he did a quick office surgery, put me to sleep and opened the wound in the bone, made by the previous surgeries, and cleansed it of all the infection that was building up in it, and tried to seal it off with something of a membrane made of my own gum tissue. When I awoke from the sedation, he explained to me that this “defect” would never stop giving me problems and that the only way to permanently try to fix this, would be to do an alveoplasty, using a bone graft from my hip to fill in this hole, and hope that this new piece of bone  would regenerate with the alveolar bone and fuse it all back together somehow and stop this chronic infection form recurring. At the time, I wasn’t too thrilled with the idea of hip surgery and oral surgery and it would mean more pain pills and a long recovery and I just did not care to think of it, if he could solve the problem temporarily with this “bandaid” surgery he had just done. So after that surgery healed, I was off to live life again, and still had that same old, low grade ache in that bone but I learned to lived with it for the next 5 years with virtually no problems, until I woke up one day in the summer of 2003 and realized I was losing my eyesight at rapid speed. One day I was able to see, the next, I could not, and it all seemed to happen that fast. I was found to have severe cataracts in both eyes, and needed cataract replacement surgery immediately. They did each eye individually, allowing one to heal some, before doing the other, and I had to put eye drops in both eyes every couple of hours to speed up the healing progress but my left one was not doing as well as the right. The left one was the same side as all the other disasters had taken place, so it made sense that this one

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