Spare Parts Anyone?

Do you know that there is a lab at the University College London that is called the “Human Body Parts Store”?
There is also a place called the “Anatomy Warehouse” where you can shop for body parts on line. Everything from heats, brains, bones, livers and kidneys.

Having this type of service available back in the day would have made Dr. Frankenstein’s “experiment” go a lot smoother. He could have even paid with PayPal and got the points.

Why would I bring this up?

Well I am going back into surgery on Monday.

This time they are going to put another cadaver bone it. Another I say? Yep.
The first one was to replace the smashed plate underneath my eye that holds the eye in place. Well that one didn’t work so they took it out. They then used a 3D printer to create a replica of my eye socket and then built me a custom plate and put that one in. It was made out of a cadaver bone. Well then they decided that wasn’t working so they took that out and replaced it with a leveling wedge (Not sure what that was made of though, but most likely a cadaver bone). Now they have decided that they are going to have to go back in, leave the wedge in and put another cadaver bone in.

And yippee me, and as a bonus, I get to have my eye sewed shut yet again.

So why this surgery.
I am losing vision in my right eye.

The vision is leaving slowly, but quickly if that makes any sense. A few weeks ago I noticed that there were times when I would have problems seeing out of the damaged eye. It would be blurry or so dark yellow that I couldn’t see anything. So I would blink a few time and most of the time the vision would clear. Now this is happening all the time. My vision is always blurry and it gets a little worse everyday. The images I do see might be flooded with dark yellow, red or grey. I can blink all that I want and it doesn’t clear up. This all happened in a matter of weeks.

To top that off my eye lid rolled back in on the eye again. That’s like the fourth time that has happened.
Now the right eye wasn’t aligned with the left so I don’t use it all that often. And I am getting used to seeing out of one eye, but I was still hoping for different ending to this little misadventure. The folks at the University of Minnesota are still working on it, but my confidence in a positive outcome is waning.


I was kind of looking forward to the next surgery because it was supposed to be the big one where they work on aligning the eyes again. Now with this latest setback that surgery has been pushed back indefinitely and two more surgeries have been added. So I will be having this one on Monday. Then we can schedule the alignment surgery 3-6 month later and then a third surgery after that to fix some  cosmetic issues with the eyelid.
The problem is that the last two surgeries will only happen if this upcoming surgery on Monday is a success. If not all bets are off.

I really don’t want to lose my sight in that eye.
It would really suck.

Hold it all together, Everybody needs you strong

But life hits you out of nowhere, And barely leaves you holding on

And when you're tired of fighting, Chained by your control

There's freedom in surrender

Lay it down and let it go

(Just Be Held   Casting Crowns)