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The eyes have it...
On 25/08/2011 22:55, Bobbie Sews More wrote:
Thanks for sharing your problems with us. Sure hope you recover real soon. Barbara in SC Much appreciated. This group is always so supportive. -- Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.katedicey.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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The eyes have it...
Awwww, Dear Kate, I am just so very sorry that you've had such eye trauma.
Wish I could wrap my skinny arms around you and give you a hug. Polly "Bobbie Sews More" wrote in message ... Thanks for sharing your problems with us. Sure hope you recover real soon. Barbara in SC |
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On 25/08/2011 23:59, Polly Esther wrote:
Awwww, Dear Kate, I am just so very sorry that you've had such eye trauma. Wish I could wrap my skinny arms around you and give you a hug. Polly I feel that hug, my love! And thank you. Scary at the time, but now just tiring as my brain gets used to the altered vision and compensates... It'll get easier. -- Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.katedicey.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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The eyes have it...
"Kate XXXXXX" wrote... about an eyesore weekend OH dear, what are you up to, girl!?! I hope you are better now; keep my fingers crossed for you. Today's my first day back on the computer after vacation (whoopee!) and sickness (urgh!) and I haven't much time to read. Next week when DD is back to Kindergarten I'll catch up. For now, keep mending, keep sewing! U. |
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The eyes have it...
On 04/09/2011 10:02, Ursula Schrader wrote:
"Kate XXXXXX" wrote... about an eyesore weekend OH dear, what are you up to, girl!?! I hope you are better now; keep my fingers crossed for you. Today's my first day back on the computer after vacation (whoopee!) and sickness (urgh!) and I haven't much time to read. Next week when DD is back to Kindergarten I'll catch up. For now, keep mending, keep sewing! U. I didn't do anything, honest! Spontaneous combustion, I swear... Still, I went back up to London on Bank Holiday Monday, met Little Sis at Victoria, and we went shopping in Harrods. I bought a Harrods teddybear for the new Great Neice. Little Sis is disgruntled at the kids for getting preggy, but adores her new granddaughter something rotten! As she says, it isn't the baby's fault! And her son and GF are doing everything they can to get proper settled work and a flat so they can all be together. After Harrods, we met Big Sis at The Palace. Yup, Little Sis had complementary tickets for a tour of Buckingham Palace, so we went for a nice gawp. Big Sis has held meetings there and organized conferences there and stuff, and is a History Buff, so we got lots of lovely inside info on the workings of the building, and on the pictures. We saw Kate's wedding dress. It is fabulous close up! And the dressmaker uses the same pins and techniques I do, which is a comfort... Then we went for afternoon tea. Little Sis's Birthday treat for her Big Sisters. OK, mine was a bit early for December, but as Little Sis said, right now it's a case of catch me when you can! It was the most delish and elegant afternoon tea EVVAH! An endless stream of several different types of tea, sandwiches, little savory things, scones and cakes... And all gluten free! Then we had champagne cocktails, and I went to Su's in Walthamstow. Which would have been better if the Victoria Line hadn't been largely a train-free zone due to engineering works and replacement train therapy - busses! Tuesday morning was a bit of a trial getting back down to the Moorfield for my check-up, as the engineering works had over-run and there were no busses to replace them... Luckily I met this lovely lass at the station who works at the Moorfield and we had a minor adventure getting there via John O'Grats, Lands End and Liverpools Street Station! Big sis met me at the hospital. The consultant was very pleased with the fix his man had done. I was discharged, but told to come back immediately if I felt anything was wrong, or had a new problem. I will see more floaters in that eye, and in bright sunshine I see a whole new galaxy of little black stars I never saw before, thanks to the 400+ dots of laser treatment, but the retina is firmly welded in place and should cause no further problem. I still need to get used to it: there will be a couple or three more weeks of settling down, and then the brain should take over and compensate for the very minor loss of vision. At the moment I'm still suffering from the fluttery eyelid thing that's was another result of the op itself, as they have to poke into the eyelid to get the eye in the right place... Deadly uncomfortable, and it stresses the muscles, but the fluttering will fade, and is already a lot better than last week. On the whole, a far better outcome than it might have been. Thanks to all the gods for the NHS, and to the Moorfields in particular. -- Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.katedicey.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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The eyes have it...
BT,DT though my tear was not as severe as yours. Did you get a shiner
(black eye) from the needle w/ the local anaesthetic? And, yes, those mega-dilation drops are really something. (The pupil gets so big that there is only a sliver of iris visible.) When I went for the follow up I asked that they be used only on the injured eye. I wanted to be able to see half-normally for the rest of that day. Glad you got the tear attended to before the situation got worse. Nann On Aug 25, 3:28*am, Kate XXXXXX wrote: Last weekend got a bit traumatic... *I went to bed feeling as if there was a small something in my eye. *Couldn't see anything. Bathed it and went to sleep.. I have to say that I would, on the whole, rather have root canal work than laser eye surgery. *It's not painful, exactly, and the lovely eye surgeon did put numbing drops in, but it is far from pleasant. *And you have to keep still and try not to blink. *Urgle! *Your eyes get filled with drops that give you Mutant Alien Eyes with giant pupils. *They make it hard to focus and every bit of light dazzles. I am still not fully back to normal eye function. *My pupils were still dilated on Tuesday, and focusing is slow. *But the floaters are fading and the post-op discomfort from being prodded and holding unnatural eye positions while having lasers fired at me is dying down, so I dare say I'll be fine by and by. |
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