Description

An Andalusian Dog’s Life:
The case of my detached retina

by Yaemi Shigyo

A5, 104 pages
ISBN 978-4-9902663-1-8

Japanese text (pages 1 to 49) and English text (pages 51 to 103), each with 16 manga and 19 illustrations.
Published in a limited edition of 200 copies by Nishigawa Kobo in Fukuoka, Japan
Printed in Tokyo, Japan by Koshin Printing
Book and cover design by Yaemi Shigyo
Typography by C.F. Ryal

I had a detached retina!

Summer, 2006. My nearsightedness led to a detached retina in my right eye. If I had left it, the eye would have gone blind.

A sudden stay in the hospital. Three surgeries under general anaesthetic. Complications arising from my condition, and a fourth surgery after that.

What became of my poor tired retina? How did my husband Chris cope with it?

This is my detached retina diary, told in essays and drawings. It is a greedily bilingual book!

Contents

Calendar
Summer 2006: It wasn’t my imagination!
My first stay in the hospital
First general anaesthesia and surgery
A rhegmatogenous retinal detachment
Second general anaesthesia and surgery
Third general anaesthesia and surgery
Surgery for my detached retina: What was the worst part?
Even after leaving the hospital watch out!
Proliferative vitreoretinopathy: Back to the hospital again, for the fourth general anaesthesia and surgery
Leaving the hospital and beyond
Things I prohibited myself from doing after October
Three months passed, and it became 2007
Yet another hospital stay (but short this time): The fifth surgery (local anaesthetic)
Leaving the hospital and after
A small accident!
Finally, I could get proper glasses!
A realistic topic indeed: hospital charges
Realistic topics: Things I thought about
Things you need for your stay in the hospital
In the end
And then…