BODY
Tips and tricks for sleeping, eating and drinking, hygeine, activity, relaxing, pain, medication, intimacy, and safety.
MIND
Helping you manage your current situation, isolation, staying entertained, and helping you grow mentally from your situation.
For Patients, Support Persons
& Healthcare Providers
This book is intended to be read by people that will undergo, or are currently recovering from, a vitrectomy surgery, especially those that had a retinal detachment and, as a result, are required to maintain a face-down position. It is also recommended for people that are supporting anyone that is recovering from a vitrectomy. And lastly, this book may also help healthcare professionals better support those in their care by sharing a detailed account of a patient’s experience and perspective.
If you’re a Patient
You will gain an understanding of the overall experience from start to finish, and an understanding of how to manage your body, your mind, and your life as you go through the recovery process. You will also gain tips and tricks on what works and what might not work so well, and most importantly, you will gain confidence that you, too, can do this.
If you’re a Support Person
You will gain an understanding of what your person is going through. You will be able to anticipate some of the troubles and issues and be more proactive in your care and support for them. You will also be able to understand and support their mental state as they go through the challenging recovery process. Most of all, you will be less surprised as things come up and will have more insight as to what you can do to relieve issues.
If you’re a Healthcare Provider
You probably already have a lot of answers and suggestions for your patients and have lived through this procedure vicariously through them, but, the hope is that there may be something in here that helps you provide different suggestions or advice to your patients so you can support them that much better. Even if you only take away one tip or trick from this book, or have a slight shift in perspective when it comes to the patient’s experience, you will be able to share that with so many people, and the impact will be huge.
Available in your favorite formats
E-BOOK
Get the information fast and on all your devices. Perfect for Patients, Support Persons, and Healthcare Providers.
Order E-BookPAPERBACK
Bookmark it, write on it, hold it in your hands. Recommended for Support Persons and Healthcare Providers, or for Patients that are getting ready for their vitrectomy.
Order PaperbackAUDIOBOOK
When you’re face-down, you won’t be able to read. Get the information you need through the audiobook version.
Coming Soon!Reader Reviews
Such a personal and thoughtful read. As a patient who underwent two vitrectomies, I wish there had been a resource such as this when I had my procedures.
Noella Lacasse
2x Vitrectomy patient
As a past vitrectomy patient, I found this book to be a great reflection of what to expect mentally and physically throughout your recovery. It touches on how important it is to have your family and friends network to get you through your recovery. As well as many simple yet very useful tips to prepare and best manage your recovery such as bendable straws!
Chase Edmunds
Vitrectomy patient
A wonderful book! Very thorough and will be very useful to people who undergo the surgery.
Lucie Lejeune
Vitrectomy patient
Give yourself the best experience as you recover face-down!
About the Author
Rabee Alwan is an Engineer turned leadership coach with a passion for compassion. His ultimate mission is to help people turn friction in their lives into traction, so they can reach their highest potential. Rabee believes that it’s not through avoiding friction that we get to where we want to go, but it’s through embracing it that we grow beyond anything we could have imagined. Having gone through cataract surgery at the young age of 2 months, and having been a Type 1 diabetic since 1993, Rabee is grateful for all the amazing care that he had received over the years, which without, would have made his life outlook much less bright. In 2019, Rabee was then diagnosed with a detached retina and had it repaired with a vitrectomy. After his recovery, he was inspired to write this book to share his learnings and his experience with other patients, support people, and those in healthcare, in hopes that it will help take away some of their friction and help them find traction through their own vitrectomy recovery journeys.
