Rep. Dan Crenshaw announced Friday his emergency surgery for a detached retina in his left eye “went very well” but said he won’t be able to see anything for the “next few weeks” during recovery.
“I can lift my head up again and no longer have to position myself face-down, which is a relief,” the Texas Republican said in a statement. “This is obviously good news, but it doesn’t mean we are out of the woods yet.”
Crenshaw, 37, received an emergency retinal surgery at a Houston Veterans Affairs clinic two weeks ago after he said he experienced “dark, blurry spots” that were affecting his vision. An ophthalmologist said his retina was in the process of detaching.
The Texas representative is a Navy SEAL veteran who lost his right eye when he was wounded by an improvised explosive device during a deployment in Afghanistan in 2012. The blast also damaged his left eye retina, which regained vision after several surgeries, and Crenshaw wears a patch on the right side.
CRENSHAW WILL BE ‘EFFECTIVELY BLIND’ FOR A MONTH FOLLOWING SURGERY FOR DETACHING RETINA
In a statement on April 10 announcing that he had a detached retina, Crenshaw said he would be “effectively blind” for nearly a month following the surgery.
He wrote on Friday doctors injected a gas bubble into his eye to act as a bandage for his retina, hence why he cannot see at the moment.
“I still cannot see much other than lights and shadows, basically, as I am still in the early stages of my recovery. I am not sure how my vision will be in a few weeks, but I am hopeful and confident that it will return to normal,” Crenshaw said.
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Crenshaw offered reassurances that his Houston and Washington, D.C., offices would continue to function as normal but noted he would not be on social media and would not be conducting interviews “for the time being.”
