Your comfort kit includes:  A recovery table for sleeping throughout the evening, and for resting and napping during the day, a recovery chair for day time use, a two-way mirror, a portable face-support system and soft face-covers needed to protect it.

*We also offer tablets for rent throughout the duration of your recovery to help pass the time, loaded with Netflix and Texture (a digital magazine subscription service with over 200+ magazines to choose from).

Your surgeon will insert an inter-ocular gas bubble into the back of your eye where your retina is located. This bubble rises and applies pressure to the back of the retina. However, the gas bubble will apply pressure only to the top of the eye if you’re standing up and looking forward – and the bubble needs to be on your retina. This is corrected by simply positioning your head in the face-down position as if you were looking at your shoe laces. It is extremely challenging to keep your face down while sleeping, as there is a possibility of rollovers.

The most common conditions treated by a vitrectomy are macular holes, followed by retinal detachments as the second most common condition. Other conditions include macular puckers, macular edema, vitreous hemorrhage, diabetic retinopathy, and uveitis – all of which require a patient to recover in a face-down position for extended hours each day.

The most common feedback from our patients is, “I don’t know how I would have been able to manage this recovery without your equipment.”

We suggest that you touch your chin to your chest for as long as you can. How long does it take before you are either bored or feel the onset of neck strain? Our comfort kit will provide you so much relief during your recovery, that you too will be saying, “how could I possibly have been able to endure this recovery without this equipment?”