Savannah Guthrie Will Need More Surgeries to Fix the Tear in Her Retina: “My Eyesight Is Not Great”
Savannah Guthrie said she will need more eye surgeries following an accident in November that resulted in a torn retina.
The Today host had to postpone her follow-up surgeries due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Guthrie said her vision loss is “getting worse,” but she’s hopeful it will improve.
Savannah Guthrie opened up to People about her vision loss following an accident in November. The Today host, who suffered a retina tear after her son threw a toy at her eye, said she will need more surgeries after having her first procedure in December.
“My eyesight is not great,” Guthrie told the outlet. “I have to have a couple of follow-up surgeries, which is unfortunate but not unexpected.” The NBC News anchor said she had to postpone her surgeries due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In December, Guthrie underwent surgery to repair her retina. She said it was “uniquely challenging” as she had to sit face-down for three weeks straight. The surgery temporarily restored her vision, but the Today host said her eyesight “certainly isn’t where it was, and I think it’s getting worse.”
“Eventually I’m hopeful that when everything turns to normal, I’ll be able to schedule those surgeries and I’m hopeful there’ll be a big improvement,” she said. “I don’t think my eye will ever be the way it once was, but I think it will be much improved.”
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Guthrie will undergo a cataract surgery in the future. “When you have this retinal detachment, most people will end up developing cataracts, obviously at a much younger age than would normally be expected,” she explained. “When you have cataracts, you get blurry spots and you notice it more and more. So I do.”
“But it’ll be okay,” she said. “Hopefully by this summer I’ll be able to take care of it and start getting back to a better place.”
In December, Guthrie’s doctors initially attempted to fix her eye with less-invasive laser surgery, but she ended up needing surgery to reattach her retina. The night before her surgery, her vision went from blurry to dark.
“The retinal tear had deteriorated sharply, and I lost my vision,” she previously told People. “And that’s what happens if you don’t fix this: You lose your sight.” Still, she feels grateful that she was able to have the initial surgery. “It saved my eye,” she said. “If I hadn’t been able to have that surgery, I think I would have probably lost my vision in that eye.”
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