Co Armagh screenwriter Daragh Carville has praised the medical team who operated on his left eye after a routine appointment with an optician revealed a potentially blinding condition.
he man behind ITV crime drama The Bay was rushed to St Paul’s Eye Hospital in Liverpool a month before Christmas for emergency surgery on a detached retina.
The Lancaster-based writer is now on the mend after a few worrying weeks of unclear vision in his eye and is full of praise for the optician and doctors who helped him.
Speaking to the Belfast Telegraph ahead of the return of The Bay, Carville said: “I’m fine now, but for three to six weeks after the surgery, I lost a bit of clarity in my left eye which was concerning.
“It’s coming back gradually and that’s down to the wonderful NHS.
“I’d noticed a slight change in vision and shapeless matters or floaters in my line of sight, but they’d started to get more pronounced.
“I booked a regular appointment with an optician, and he immediately said there was an issue. Initially he thought it was a vitreous detachment but then he looked again and told me it was retinal detachment.”
Carville was sent to hospital straight away where he underwent surgery on his eye.
“The operation went well, thank God. I was looked after so well by the staff at St Paul’s. Hats off to the NHS. I’m on the mend now and back in action.”
Series three of The Bay, which is set in the seaside town of Morecambe, will premiere on ITV on Wednesday, January 12 at 9pm
