Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Eye Dr.

So to let all of you know out there I am having eye surgery on Monday. Yes that's right eye surgery.
The week before Christmas I went to the dr. for my regular check up and while I was there he noticed a "retinal tear" on my right eye. so we scheduled and appointment to see a retinal specialist, well that appointment was today. And it went ok I guess. I'll have to show some pictures. They took plenty of my eye and I didn't get any to take home but I do have an example. But I did have an interesting experience with the pictures. I had to have dye put in my blood so the veins behind my eye would appear on some pictures. well the dye made me nauseated. I hated it, who ever thought you'd be poked and prodded at the eye doctors.
Anyways the surgery will tack my retina back to where it belongs, but because I'm so young and scarring is a possiblity he's putting an oil in my eye that will cause some odd sideeffects, such as it may look like I'm looking through water all the time. Well for 3 months anyways when he will take the oil out. Which means they don't want me driving, so I'll be relying on other people. Sheesh oh well atleast I have other people to rely on. So now here are some pictures, the first one is a normal eye the dip in the middle is your center of vision, basically where you see from. There are three layers the first is the retina the second I'm not sure what that is and the third is the blood supply. the second picture is of a person with a retinal tear, mines actually worse, I'll draw on top of it to show you kinda where my tear starts, you'll notice the center of vision in this picture is actually still attached to blood supply, mine is not so this is very important surgery. Well I have to go LOVE YOU ALL!! wish me luck

Normal eye

What my eye is kinda like

2 comments:

Nick and Ashleigh said...

Good luck with your surgery!

linnylou said...

hey pal, long time no see! good luck with your surgery!