I’m tired of eye surgeries and subsequent recovery issues and time. Need prayers please. Thoughts, whatever.

my father has a brain tumor - not malignant, but ever growing. It created pressure on his optic nerve, eventually severing it as it grew. It also forced its eye out of the socket, so for most of my life he had a protruding eye.

It cost him a life in football, because he was blind in one eye. He lost a marksmanship scholarship as he had switch eyes for his shooting.

Eventually, he had the eye removed because the pressure and the pain was too much - and he's dealing with spinal stenosis which is crushing his spine, literally. The pain I've seen him endure for 20+years is incredible.

The eye was discolored and protruding and painful, so they just removed it. They gave him a glass eye, but his muscles and the tissue around the eye had lost its ability to 'hold' the eye in place (I guess akin to muscular atrophy), so the glass eye kept falling out.

For now, he just rocks an eye patch in public. It's made a 6'9", 290lb former offensive lineman look all the scarier.

Thoughts are with you, man. I don't know how similar your condition would be to my father's, but it seems close enough that I understand - indirectly - how trying and painful this is.

Take care and, sincerely, best of luck in the recovery in whatever form it eventually takes.