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History:
About 35 years ago, as a young kid, I was making flowerpots for my mum.
I did this by taking plastic paint containers and hammering nails through the bottom for drainage.
Well, one time, the nail bounced out - and penetrated my eye. That was the end of my flower pot making!
I had to have a partial irridectomy - essentially removal of a portion of my Iris, to allow it to function (scar tissue from a ragged hole would prevent it from opening and closing...
My lens was scarred - nothing they could do at the time, and I had a small tear in my retina (manually repaired at the time, using Ignipuncture -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignipuncture
The upshot of this was 10 days in hospital, and perhaps 30% vision.
And a warning to expect a cataract by the time I was 20.
Fast forward to the last couple of years.
I noticed that I was starting to loose sight in my left eye, with the classic 'sunbeam' corona round bright objects. Driving at night became, well, not difficult, but sort of painful from approaching car headlights.
Back to the doc.
Turns out that the original eye surgery was well done. I had my cataract - 2 in fact in one eye!. My primary cataract was a beginning of the classic cataract - in the center of the iris, and working its way outward. It was not too bad. The secondry was at the site of the original scarring, and moving quickly. It was going to need seen to soon.
Public health - in northern Ireland, suggested at the time around 6 month wait time. The doc wanted to study its progress for a year. So here I am now.
Monday, Apparently, I am to have a couple of procedures.
Firstly, I am missing most of my cillary body on the left side of my lens of my left eye - this is a complex of fibers which joins the body of the eye to the iris. So, I cant have a plain old cataract op, as there is not enough support to attach the new lens.
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=ana...1t:429,r:0,s:0
so they fit a ring to support the replacement lens. Unfortunately, at this time, the irridectemy comes back to bite me in the arse. Because the Iris has a hole in it, there is a high risk that the vitreous humor - the jelly in the back of the eye - will pour through that hole. as you get older, that jelly you might have disected in Biology turns more fluid.
If the vitreous humor moves, then the tear in the retina will fail - probably badly.
This ring will be installed as a schaffold
my Iris will have to be rebuilt on the left side.
My retina will be religatured (using a laser), and
then I can have the cataract operation.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...64242812891682
to facilitate all this I will also have a partial Anterior vitrectomy, and a Pars plana vitrectomy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_sur...etinal_surgery
to drain off (and replace afterwards!) the vitreous humor to reduce the risk of the retinal tear.
Thank god I am having a general anesthetic. Knowing what I do now, I am glad I am not having all this under local - it was offered.
I spoke to my consultant. He reconed on a 75% chance I would have my eyesight restored to at least the stage it was at when I did the damage - less" getting older" degradation.
10 % chance there will be no overall improvement - there is so much going on, and every bit carries a risk
the rest is that I loose what I have. On the left eye, I could not tell how many fingers you held up at 10 feet - so its not a lot anyway - but I would like to see in stereo again...
To carry out the surgery sequentially, rather than one pass would be more risky - infection and torn retina are the biggest risk factors anyway, and doing one, having me back for the next would multiply the factors....
Wish me luck
I will let you know how I get on...
RedRed
History:
About 35 years ago, as a young kid, I was making flowerpots for my mum.
I did this by taking plastic paint containers and hammering nails through the bottom for drainage.
Well, one time, the nail bounced out - and penetrated my eye. That was the end of my flower pot making!
I had to have a partial irridectomy - essentially removal of a portion of my Iris, to allow it to function (scar tissue from a ragged hole would prevent it from opening and closing...
My lens was scarred - nothing they could do at the time, and I had a small tear in my retina (manually repaired at the time, using Ignipuncture -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignipuncture
The upshot of this was 10 days in hospital, and perhaps 30% vision.
And a warning to expect a cataract by the time I was 20.
Fast forward to the last couple of years.
I noticed that I was starting to loose sight in my left eye, with the classic 'sunbeam' corona round bright objects. Driving at night became, well, not difficult, but sort of painful from approaching car headlights.
Back to the doc.
Turns out that the original eye surgery was well done. I had my cataract - 2 in fact in one eye!. My primary cataract was a beginning of the classic cataract - in the center of the iris, and working its way outward. It was not too bad. The secondry was at the site of the original scarring, and moving quickly. It was going to need seen to soon.
Public health - in northern Ireland, suggested at the time around 6 month wait time. The doc wanted to study its progress for a year. So here I am now.
Monday, Apparently, I am to have a couple of procedures.
Firstly, I am missing most of my cillary body on the left side of my lens of my left eye - this is a complex of fibers which joins the body of the eye to the iris. So, I cant have a plain old cataract op, as there is not enough support to attach the new lens.
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=ana...1t:429,r:0,s:0
so they fit a ring to support the replacement lens. Unfortunately, at this time, the irridectemy comes back to bite me in the arse. Because the Iris has a hole in it, there is a high risk that the vitreous humor - the jelly in the back of the eye - will pour through that hole. as you get older, that jelly you might have disected in Biology turns more fluid.
If the vitreous humor moves, then the tear in the retina will fail - probably badly.
This ring will be installed as a schaffold
my Iris will have to be rebuilt on the left side.
My retina will be religatured (using a laser), and
then I can have the cataract operation.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...64242812891682
to facilitate all this I will also have a partial Anterior vitrectomy, and a Pars plana vitrectomy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_sur...etinal_surgery
to drain off (and replace afterwards!) the vitreous humor to reduce the risk of the retinal tear.
Thank god I am having a general anesthetic. Knowing what I do now, I am glad I am not having all this under local - it was offered.
I spoke to my consultant. He reconed on a 75% chance I would have my eyesight restored to at least the stage it was at when I did the damage - less" getting older" degradation.
10 % chance there will be no overall improvement - there is so much going on, and every bit carries a risk
the rest is that I loose what I have. On the left eye, I could not tell how many fingers you held up at 10 feet - so its not a lot anyway - but I would like to see in stereo again...
To carry out the surgery sequentially, rather than one pass would be more risky - infection and torn retina are the biggest risk factors anyway, and doing one, having me back for the next would multiply the factors....
Wish me luck
I will let you know how I get on...RedRed
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