OK, all o' y'all--I just got sprung about am hour ago. MANY THANKS for the answered prayers and well-wishes! The eye alignment is improving and looking better since the steroid infusions and oral dosage had begun 3 evenings ago. GREAT TREATMENT as always at my hospital 1/2 mile from home, once you get past the gatekeepers at the front desk AND the ER techs and MDs whose sole mission in life is to dissuade drug-seeking at all costs. This was the worst of the entire experience--my own pain level was a dead heat for the kidney stone I passed in 2003, and I wasn't given so much as a TYLENOL for 13+ hours of waiting in the ER lobby. I was hurtin' for certain, but two other folks were likely in worst shape in terms of pain level--A 30-year old woman was GENUINELY, OBVIOUSLY in agony from passing a gallstone (Marie's belief), and a 50 year old man had a CLEARLY and GROSSLY dislocated shoulder. Those ER personnel were entirely DGAF. EMS, fire service. and law enforcement can succinctly separate drug-seekers from genuine pain-suffering people, though you would think people in an ER would refine their skill sets past 7th grade shallowness. I am still pissed about this. The helping professions are supposed to relieve misery, not exacerbate it! SICK! Some venues of medicine are truly perverse and twisted since the "Pill Mill' and Covid days.