Pudd - sory to be a spectre at the feast, but over the last 18 months, my sister (aged 50) has had 2 separate occurrences of retinal detachment in separate eyes. The first was repaired OK, but the second became detached again and became a significant problem. Has required several operations (removing the lens and filling the eyeball with nitrigen then saline) which have led to corneal ulceration and a worse than 50% chance of recovering any meaningful vision in that eye.
Main reason I mention this is to take what your medic says seriously and if he says no flying for 6 months, stick to it, no matter how much you miss it.