Eye Operation (updated for legibility)

EDIT: sorry if some of you tried to read this and found it all grayed-out to hell. I typed it up in another program and then pasted it into my blogger.com template, and it transferred across something about the text that changed the usual colour. The way my computer is set up, it looked exactly the same as ever to me, but it wasn't until I got screengrabs sent to me by a couple of people I realised something was up. 

I hope, or at least assume, it's readable now.

So I spent most of June away from social media not through choice but because I had a surgical procedure on my left eye at the start of the month.

Several days before, late May, I visited an eye doctor who informed me I had a detached retina. This came as a bit of a surprise because several months before, I had visited another doctor who didn't appear to pick up on this. Two days after my more recent visit in May, I saw a specialist at one of the main hospitals here in Taipei and two days after that I had surgery on my left eye - a vitrectomy, to be precise.

After that I had to spend most of a week lying face down as much of the time as possible, and several more weeks after that taking it easy and avoiding using computers or watching any television. 

Fortunately, I’d got quite heavily into audiobooks over the past couple of months, so I didn't have any trouble keeping myself entertained, although for all that it’s not much fun spending most of a month sitting around and otherwise doing nothing. 

I wasn't entirely helpless; Emma was a great deal of help, keeping an eye on me in hospital and taking care of the countless things at home I normally took care of.

The good news is my eyesight is much improved, and I’m finally back at work, although I do still have to restrict my time online and take regular lengthy breaks away from the screen. And gradually catching up with stuff that's been left hanging since the end of May. 

Doomsday Game wound up somewhat orphaned throughout June, since I wasn't able to nurture it through its still early days of publication. It's still selling, but I know now from past experience some careful attention would have improved its situation nonetheless. 

And of course I wasn't able to do any editing work. So if you're feeling charitable, and especially if you've read Extinction Game and Survival Game, you could always pick up a copy of Doomsday Game, the third in the series, since most of the money from each sale goes straight to my pocket.