worried about dads diabetic eye surgery

my dad is going to have diabetic eye surgery called a vitrectomy, and when i posted a question about it before i was given a great website. i have looked all over the internet and have not found one as good as that, so thank for that. i was wondering if there were any other websites i can look at to find success rates on the vitrectomy surgery, local anesthetics or sedation, or any websites on diabetic retinopathy or high blood pressure. thanks to anyone who can help and god bless.

[JDRF-Team-BL]

The eye surgery your father is going to go through is relatively very successful. But i'm not sure of any web sites that have the information you requested. i tend to rely on books instead of the web for information. The ADA has many books for sale and the NIH (National Institute of Health) has many pamphlets of various diabetic issues. This can be accessed through the web. Hope this helps, bret.

[searchy]

For diabetes eye stuff-astralagus or Huong Chi (Chinese for Astralagus) is great. I stopped taking it a bit ago and now-oh no!! See www.bluepoppy.com for info on that. Ebselen along with lutein is supposed to be good. I may have enough money left for Ebselen, but I'm not sure about Nepretin-sounds very good though. I didn't reach the point to get shark's cartrilidge, but I know that would help. 35.5 years taking insulin and I'd have to say I have a bunch of Angels watching over me! I now watch TBN amap since I was raised by non-practicing Catholics. Oh, Dr. Richard K. Bernstein is a must-taking insulin over 50 years!

[JDRF-Team-LRS]

Hello,
I spent a little time this weekend doing web searches for some sites with reasonable information about the several topics you mentioned.  Here's a group for you to look at.  

Some of the web addresses may spill over onto 2 lines in my posting, so you'll need to do a coupla "copy/paste" steps to get the full web address into your browser.

Good luck to you & your dad!

Vitrectomy:
http://www.healthwise.net/hillhealth/Content/StdDocument.aspx?DOCHWID=tf1464&SECHWID=tf1467 (overview)
http://www.rvscny.com/vitrectomy_surgery.htm  (brief description)
http://www.vrmny.com/vitrectomy.htm (good pictures)

Anesthesia:
http://www.chclibrary.org/micromed/00037330.html (different anesthesia types explained)
http://www.emedicine.com/plastic/topic112.htm (medical journal article for lay people)

Retinopathy
http://www.nei.nih.gov/health/diabetic/retinopathy.asp

Hypertension (high blood pressure) & diabetes
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000468.htm (overview, treatments, prognosis)
http://www.ash-us.org/ (professional society

[searchy]

Please let me know if you have read my comment.

[bluefin1]

here are a few sites which may help you

http://www.maculacenter.com/EyeSurgery/Vitrectomy.htm

http://health.yahoo.com/ency/healthwise/tf1464

http://www.avclinic.com/RetinalDetachment.htm