So I spent part of the day with an eye surgeon where the sentence "Well, I got some good news and some not so good news for you". "What do you want to hear first?" was said.
Since I am an optimistic sort of guy, and it was early in the morning... I took the good news first.
The good news is that they can fix my eyesight. At least they feel they have a pretty good shot of doing it. There ended the good news.
The not so good news was that in order to completely fix my eyesight, it was going to take multiple surgeries. Now I knew that so that comment in and of itself was not unexpected. When I met with the University of Minnesota specialist, he said that they were going to have to do a few surgeries to get everything corrected. So hearing that today was anticipated.
The part I was not expecting was the urgency they are placing on the first surgery they need to do. It has nothing to do with the double vision and they are not going to address that until they get the first issue corrected. It also needs to be corrected soon or I could loose my vision all together in my right eye.
What is the first issue you ask? My eyelid. They are going to "rebuild" my eyelid.
After the second surgery on my eye, scar tissue built up under my eyelid which cause my eyelid to roll in on itself. When this happened my eyelashes were in direct contact with my eye and rubbing on it. When they did the third surgery, they made a small incision and rolled the eyelid back out. They then sewed the eyelid shut in hopes that it would heal that way. It didn't and the eyelid has rolled back in even further then it was before. The problem with this is that the rubbing on the eyeball will cause damage to the eye that is not reversible. They need to fix that ASAP.
The plan is that they are going to harvest tissue from my side and use it to replace the scared tissue under my eyelid. This will create a cushion behind my eye and prevent the eyelid from rolling back in again. According to the specialist I saw today this needs to be done now, so I can only imagine that I am not going to get a lot of time between receiving the phone call to set the appointment and the actual date of the surgery.The not so good news was that in order to completely fix my eyesight, it was going to take multiple surgeries. Now I knew that so that comment in and of itself was not unexpected. When I met with the University of Minnesota specialist, he said that they were going to have to do a few surgeries to get everything corrected. So hearing that today was anticipated.
The part I was not expecting was the urgency they are placing on the first surgery they need to do. It has nothing to do with the double vision and they are not going to address that until they get the first issue corrected. It also needs to be corrected soon or I could loose my vision all together in my right eye.
What is the first issue you ask? My eyelid. They are going to "rebuild" my eyelid.
After the second surgery on my eye, scar tissue built up under my eyelid which cause my eyelid to roll in on itself. When this happened my eyelashes were in direct contact with my eye and rubbing on it. When they did the third surgery, they made a small incision and rolled the eyelid back out. They then sewed the eyelid shut in hopes that it would heal that way. It didn't and the eyelid has rolled back in even further then it was before. The problem with this is that the rubbing on the eyeball will cause damage to the eye that is not reversible. They need to fix that ASAP.
On a more humorous note.
The doctor was being very careful to explain exactly how they were going harvest "tissue" from my side to do the procedure. He was going on and on about for a bit and I couldn't take anymore. I told him I was running out of space in my skull for the stomach fat that everyone was putting in there. He just looked at me and stared. Some folks just don't get sarcasm..
What you are thinking?
A number of years ago I had a brain tumor. When they did the surgery to remove it they needed to fill the hole they made with something, so they harvested fat from one side of my stomach to fill it with. Now they are going to use fat from the other side to fix my eyelid. Now with all of the weight I have lost, I am running out of fat cells and with a second set of fat cells needed to fix my face, I am running out of space in my skull and face for additional fat to be added.
Things just keep getting more interesting.....
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I got stiffness in ma' bones
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