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> I did this once, I learned a lot.
Surprisingly that was the most comforting thing I could hear. To know that the ENT had enough confidence and presence-of-mind in his procedure to crack a joke told me I was in good hands, even if those hands were holding a six-inch needle down my throat.
Not to brag, but to brag, this is nothing. I’ve had a gas bubble injected into my eye to repair a detached retina (pneumatic retinopexy). https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/w...
Things people I know have had in their eyes I didn't know could be in eyes: - The aforementioned gas bubble - The same but an oil bubble, when you need the pressure to remain there for longer (and a second surgery to remove it) - A 1mm bypass stent to reduce intra-ocular pressure
I find myself having this reaction all too frequently after traumatic encounters with the healthcare system.
I honestly don't know the answer. Do other patients really not communicate when they have a bad experience? Or do they communicate and the system is simply incapable of listening or reacting?
I have double vision because of previous eye surgery, and the end result is going to be a surgery where they 1. Put me under 2. Disconnect the muscles from the back of the eye sockets and reconnect them temporarily in a better location 3. Wake me up and make sure the locations are correct 4. Push the eyes to the side and reach in with a tool to permanently attach the muscles The doctor was telling me the last part an…
I have double vision because of previous eye surgery, and the end result is going to be a surgery where they 1. Put me under 2. Disconnect the muscles from the back of the eye sockets and reconnect them temporarily in a better location 3. Wake me up and make sure the locations are correct 4. Push the eyes to the side and reach in with a tool to permanently attach the muscles The doctor was telling me the last part an…
Holy hell, NOPE. I'm very glad I was under the whole time when I had my strabismus surgeries as a child, because I'm pretty sure I would be psychologically scarred for life.
(Ophthalmologist): To any future HN reader scared by those intraocular injections: don't fear them. I'm on my way to the operating room and going to perform cataract surgery under topical (=eyedrops only) anesthesia, as I always do, and as most surgeons today do. Patients won't feel anything except water slightly flowing on the eye surface. The surgical knife is 2.2mm wide : the 25 Gauge needle is 0.260mm wide. Anest…
Overall, it was kinda like going to the dentist, but I could keep chatting with the doctor through the whole thing. The ability to keep communicating was great for keeping things chill. (However, one must be careful not to laugh while there's a scalpel near one's eye.)
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Make sure you understand the clinical outcomes and potential side-effects. When a cornea flap is cut, you are cutting a lot of innervation to the cornea surface, this for many people means fairly persistent dry-eyes. In addition the scaring of the cornea in the incision flap rim, can also create visual artefacts like Halos, more visible during nightime as your pupil expands and may catch some of the visual distortion…
I was talking to my eye doc while he was performing surgery on my eyelids, just sort of chit-chatting. So I was curious, my eyesight is pretty good -- but for how long? -- and I asked, "What do you think of LASIK?" Now, this guy has a dry sense of humor so he said, "You may notice that I'm wearing glasses ..." And I guess that was all of the input I needed.