Hospital Appointment - 5 Stitches Taken Out [12/12/2016]

Hi all,

So today was my last appointment at the hospital for the year, and I’m glad that it ended on a good note. 

I arrived at the clinic at around 10:30 and do the usual routine of waiting and then being called, reading a chart, waiting again, being called again and then having my eyes scanned, and being made to wait again. All in about 45 minutes. This time it’s a lot busier than usual, I presume because of Christmas and everyone having their appointments before the end of the year.

I am then eventually called again by the contact lens specialist who checks the pressure and overall state of my eyes and he’s happy with what he sees and then walks out to talk to my consultant who handled my surgery and they both come back in and my consultant examines the eyes himself, and concludes that 5 stitches need to taken out today. I was a bit nervous although I had 2 taken out already, that experience wasn’t very good as my eyes decided to be extra fussy and resist against the eye numbing drops, so I could feel most of what was going on. But, luckily, this didn’t happen this time ‘round.

So I had a few more eye numbing drops put in my eye and then rushed to another room to have these stitches taken out. This experience was a lot nicer I can say. All done within 10 minutes. The team originally wanted me to go on surgery day to have the remaining 9 stitches taken out, but as they were very pleased with how still I was throughout the removal of the stitches, they’re confident enough to want to do them in the clinic rather than in the theatre. So I’m pleased that I won’t have to prepare for any surgery again. But I won’t keep my hopes up anytime soon, just in case.

Today was a lot nicer experience, and I look forward to having the rest taken out, as my consultant said: “The real fun will start then”.

The photo that you see was taken around 2 hours after being done at the hospital, so please do excuse the orange stain that’s around the eye as that’s the eyedrops that leaked. You can see where the remaining 9 stitches are (if you can’t they’re in the right hand of the cornea with a loner one on the left-hand side). And yes, there is a tiny bit of blood at the top, but that’s nothing to worry about. It was a cool experience to have the eye colour change to grey for an hour or so, but at the moment of writing this, it’s a very weird dark green colour.

This probably my last post before and after Christmas and the New Year, so I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!