Eye Surgery This Morning

[Ariel Badger]

After 2 cancellations including one on Friday when I was preped and ready to go to the table I went into school this morning and was just getting ready to go into class for period one when my phone rang, "can you get to Solihull in the next hour?" I had prepared cover lessons for this week as I had expected to be out for part of this week if my surgery had happened on Friday so I asked my technician to look my class whilst I ran to find the Head.
A Neighbour drove me to hospital and I was preped by 10.30 and on the slab by 10.50. eye surgery is not pleasant but it is interesting, anesthesia is by eyedrops and they kill a lot of the pain but you can still feel the knife and the tools going in. They inject a blue dye and as the lens is broken up and sucked out all you see is a mass of swirling colour, I had not eaten and this did not help and at times it felt I was falling through the operating table. I was a bit wobbly after and with not much vision but that is now coming back and I seem to have better sight in it than the previously operated eye that got cocked up.
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[Pete.]

What did you have done Wal?

When I had an eye op it was under a general to remove a large metal splinter for the middle of the eyeball. I don't think I could have let them operate on my eye with me awake.
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[Ariel Badger]

Lens removal and replacement due to cataract Pete,

This is how they do iy (animation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxhX0nOoJLE
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I think I just fainted. Something about eye surgery in particular makes me feel squeamish. Hope it works out OK. How do you manage without a lens?

[Ariel Badger]

The lens is replaced with a plastic one.
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[mudcow007]

oooow eye surgery looks amazing!!

youtube link of lens replacement


enjoy!

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[pepperami]

Just come to this.

All good now I hope
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[Vincent]

Get well soon
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[Mark65]

wow , good luck
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[Ariel Badger]

I can now see better than I have for years!
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[Vincent]

Result!...I'm chuffed for you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzGV9Bl6CGg
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[Sload]

How do you keep your eye still, do they clamp your eyelids too?
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[Ariel Badger]

They eye is clamped open but you are in control of the eye, some of the eye-drops kill the blink reflex but you must stare ahead at the light, This is easy until they rip out the lens and inject weird stuff into the eye so that all your references go to hell!
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[Sload]

Sounds horrendous. I'm slowly going short sighted but won't go the glasses route till it becomes an impairment. Surgery is the other option but sounds like such fun
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[angryjonny]

[hellkat]

Glad to know you survived it, Ariel xx

Makes me scared just thinking about the bit where you said they rip out the lense and inject stuff - and you can see the needle coming?????

I would have had someone's arm off by that point.
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[Vincent]

Reminds me of, (not for the faint of heart ):-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJZ-fmjDQRw
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[Ariel Badger]

You do not see a lot Jen, you do get a hell of a light show as they inject coloured liquids into the eye. and take the lens out. The new lens going in is quiet sore but quite fun to watch as it unfolds and things come back into focus.
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[pepperami]

Are you becoming bionic? do you now have an eye like the Six Million Dollar Man
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

I imagine you must have looked like this during the surgery?

https://materialdesigns.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/terminator-eye-surgery-arnold-schwarznegger1.jpg
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[Ariel Badger]

Four weeks on and I had my post op consultation this morning. Pleased to say that the hospital passed my eye off with flying colours today although I had to cancel my opticians this afternoon because of the drugs that had been used in it this morning. Once I get glasses that match my eyes I will be able to see again.
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[Pete.]

[Ariel Badger]

Far from it Pete, my eyes now need very little correction as the new lenses have seen to that.
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[Pete.]

That's brilliant news.

Rated insightful
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