Hi all,
Here is another update for no-one to read. I hope you, the reader, enjoy it:
Just a week after having 5 stitches of what was 14 stitches, I started noticing that my eye felt very more fragile than normal. There were times that I found it very hard to keep it open as it didn’t like how bright it perceived the light. I didn’t bat an eye (pardon that intended joke) until I realised that my eye didn’t like it whenever I put in lubricating eyedrops, and would actually react badly to it.
So skip to a few days later and it’s Christmas Day, and my eye is completely red and raw, and very comfortable. So I decided that morning to give it a couple more days, as I know it being the day it was, some people were more VIP to be seen to on C.D. So my family finally has the chance to call the eye clinic and they sounded very concerned. I didn’t know why, but they insisted that I come in and be seen immediately.
I’m not sure which date I went for the emergency appointment, but we went nevertheless and… There was no-one there. The staff were there but in less quantity, but hardly any patients waiting to be seen. I have never seen it that empty before, but obviously, emergency doctors and staff were there waiting for that you-never-know case.
We waited ten minutes before being called in for a quick eye test, which was the same as always, and put into a different, smaller waiting room to be seen by a doctor/consultant. After five minutes, my name is called and I am examined/questioned about my problem. The doctor asks about when I had the surgery, why it was needed, when was the last time I went to an appointment, what meds I was taking, etc, etc etc. After some good time look at my eyes, testing the pressure and looking around with a slit lamp, he blurts out “Your cornea is being rejected!”. It was all a bit out there, but it didn’t surprise me that this appointment wouldn’t be as easy as the others.
After some more questions and answering them, I was under new eyedrops and instructed to take them hourly for the next week until I was seen again by the proper Eye Clinic team. By now I obviously knew they were pretty worried, and so should I.
So I stuck to this regime of taking them hourly for a week, and then I was seen a few days after the new year rang in, and the same old stuff happened as usual, and they were very happy with what happened last week. My consultant reminded me how lucky I was to have decided to go in when I did, otherwise, the situation would’ve been a lot worse than it was.
As there weren’t any new talks of rejection, I am going to assume that the eye isn’t rejecting the cornea, but I am still taking my eye drops six times a day until I am next seen to have my stitches removed at the end of January.
That is all the updates I have about my eye! I will write another update in the next few weeks to talk about the rest of the stitches being taken out. I am very excited, but let’s hope the rest of this journey is as smooth as possible.
O.