vernon
29-10-04, 12:25
Sorry for the long post.
Feeling realty down and no Idea what to do. Yesterday I went to see my eye surgeon (after missing many appointments through fear and anxiety). As a lot of you know I am registered blind, I have macular degeneration, high myopia and retina damage. One eye has no sight left, its been that way over a year and the other is following but have a little sight in one eye, blurred and ok for real close work but no good at all for going out or seeing anything furtherer than a couple of feet away. They said they would be willing to try surgery to try and give me a bit of sight back in the eye that’s no good but another problem arose, There is a cataract now on the eye meaning they cant see the back of the eye to see what damage is done. (They done a scan on the eye but this don’t give full details they need) So, they would have to remove the cataract before they can see the back to commence and surgery to try and fix the retina this is the risks they said that would be involved. Because of the retina damage the surgery to remove the cataract could fully detach the retina (meaning end of eye fully, or what they said also jelly loss or infection. Once they can remove the cataract if all goes well the retina might be too damaged to be repaired in that case they would just leave it and I have had surgery and gained nothing. But on the other hand if the cataract is removed with no problems to the retina and the retina isn’t to bad I would be able to see a bit with the eye I now have no sight in. and the other pitfall is they could do it successfully then find the other eye doesn’t match with the repaired eye meaning surgery on the eye I can see a little with to rectify this problem. Before gong to see the surgeon I didn’t think there where so many complications and this has made me feel much more depressed and anxious and scared, I really want to go ahead with this surgery as the eye in question has no sight at all and would be great to watch TV and even go out again on my own. But as they said if I do decide to go ahead, go expecting no change and if it’s a success it’s a bonus. I am really anxious and scared before I start and this has really added to it to think I could go through 2 lots of surgery for nothing. I told the surgeon I was anxious and real scared of most things and he said in that case he would arrange for me to have a strong sedative on arrival at hospital on that day. So sorry for such a long post and properly a lot of you have more problems than me but I feel so down and really needed to get all this off my chest to someone outside the family. Thank you all for reading this and being there I have had so much help on this site just reading and chatting in chat to people. Thanks so much love you all Vernon
Feeling realty down and no Idea what to do. Yesterday I went to see my eye surgeon (after missing many appointments through fear and anxiety). As a lot of you know I am registered blind, I have macular degeneration, high myopia and retina damage. One eye has no sight left, its been that way over a year and the other is following but have a little sight in one eye, blurred and ok for real close work but no good at all for going out or seeing anything furtherer than a couple of feet away. They said they would be willing to try surgery to try and give me a bit of sight back in the eye that’s no good but another problem arose, There is a cataract now on the eye meaning they cant see the back of the eye to see what damage is done. (They done a scan on the eye but this don’t give full details they need) So, they would have to remove the cataract before they can see the back to commence and surgery to try and fix the retina this is the risks they said that would be involved. Because of the retina damage the surgery to remove the cataract could fully detach the retina (meaning end of eye fully, or what they said also jelly loss or infection. Once they can remove the cataract if all goes well the retina might be too damaged to be repaired in that case they would just leave it and I have had surgery and gained nothing. But on the other hand if the cataract is removed with no problems to the retina and the retina isn’t to bad I would be able to see a bit with the eye I now have no sight in. and the other pitfall is they could do it successfully then find the other eye doesn’t match with the repaired eye meaning surgery on the eye I can see a little with to rectify this problem. Before gong to see the surgeon I didn’t think there where so many complications and this has made me feel much more depressed and anxious and scared, I really want to go ahead with this surgery as the eye in question has no sight at all and would be great to watch TV and even go out again on my own. But as they said if I do decide to go ahead, go expecting no change and if it’s a success it’s a bonus. I am really anxious and scared before I start and this has really added to it to think I could go through 2 lots of surgery for nothing. I told the surgeon I was anxious and real scared of most things and he said in that case he would arrange for me to have a strong sedative on arrival at hospital on that day. So sorry for such a long post and properly a lot of you have more problems than me but I feel so down and really needed to get all this off my chest to someone outside the family. Thank you all for reading this and being there I have had so much help on this site just reading and chatting in chat to people. Thanks so much love you all Vernon