text: Lilly: Dearest Olivia, just talked about you with Mark and remembered our delightful stay at your place. Hope you two are fine.
  Olivia: Hello dear Lilly, I'm so thrilled that your stay here brings back such happy memories. :o)
  Olivia: More drama with Bill... He had an emergency op on his eye due to retina displacement. 5 tears in the retina... As you can imagine we've now learned a great deal about the eye! LOL
  Lilly: Oh my dear Olivia! Now thank you for the update on Bill, we are all worried then. A torn retina and a new operation. How did it happen??
  Lilly: Exertion, sudden movement, weakened veins? What are the prospects? Please tell us more.
  Olivia: There were 5 tears and probably caused by the cataract op. The doc is happy with the progress after a week of recovering the eye.
  Lilly: Can Bill use the eye?
  Olivia: He can see some fuzzy outline of objects. Colour is distorted, mainly green and blue.
  Lilly: And what are the prospects?
  Olivia: Progress will be slow up to 6 months of vision gradually changing. He has to to take things easy and only gentle walks.
  Lilly: I suppose that suits him fine. Him always preferring a sedentary lifestyle.
  Olivia: But one obvious torture: during this time alcohol, in any form, is strictly forbidden.
  Lilly: How is he coping?
  Olivia: Barely so. I gave up hope long ago. But so far he's been dry.
  Olivia: At this stage the doc says his vision should return. This is encouraging.
  Lilly: Fingers crossed!!
  Lilly: Please give Bill our love!
target: Lilly and Mark had a great stay at Olivia and Bill's place. Bill had an emergency eye surgery because of retina displacement. He's slowly recovering now.