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
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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

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!

"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.

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!

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.