2 Stitches Removed

Hi all,

Sorry I didn’t update you all on this as soon as possible, but I was out of the country enjoying myself, returned back and only just realised I didn’t even write about the experience of having 2 of my eye stitches removed in my emergency eye appointment.

On Friday 26th August, I went to the hospital for an emergency eye appointment due to having some discomfort in my eye, which it came to the point where it was unbearable.

So I arrive at the hospital first thing in the morning (they like to make my appointments very early) and I have the usual tests, the reason why I made an appointment. I then saw a junior doctor due to my consultant being away at the time. But we ran into a problem. It looks like my eyes are starting to build a resistance to the numbing eyedrops that they put in to obviously numb my eyes. This normally takes one eyedrops for it to fully numb and then start with business. But for some really weird reason, it would take SEVERAL drops until I stopped feeling anything in my eye. 

Due to the constant problem I had with the eyedrops, I had to brave it out and just let them do their work, no matter how much my eye tried to make life annoying for me. It took another eye specialist (the one who happened to try help in my failed attempts of fitting scleral lens) and it turned out two of the stitches were wobbly, indicating that they didn’t want to be in my eye. So I was rushed out to the waiting and told to expect having them removed within the next hour or so.

Just as a prisoner walked into the Eye Clinic with 4 huge officers, one on each side of him, I was called by yet another eye specialist to come with him, looked at my eye and told me that he’d be taking the stitches out. 

Now, no matter how much I tried Googling or YouTubing this, I’ve never seen how they took out the stitches, but how they do it is remarkable. While he looks through the eye examation machine, with the thinnest tweezers I’ve ever seen, he started poking (jk) my eye with grabbing the stitch to pull it out. Like what I mentioned, my eyes have built a resistance to the numbing drops, so I could feel this happening, so my reflex was to move back and keep apologising to the specialist while he went out to get a new pair of tools. After several eyedrops, my eye eventually numbed so he could continue with this work. The first stitch wasn’t that bad, I didn’t feel a thing. But when he went onto the second one, I started feeling incredibly sick. But he pulled it out very quickly, so the feeling went away quickly. But my eye started watering up, feeling sore and going back to feeling a bit sick. After that, he gave me a prescription for some antibiotics and sent me my way. 

Afterwards I had a breakfast at Morrisons, needed some help getting back to the car because I couldn’t open my eyes, so I went home, straight upstairs to bed, and when I woke up I felt so much better.

So it’s been a month on the exact date since that appointment and my life has been improved greatly. I no longer feel sensitive to light or have any discomfort. It’s amazing to think what problems incredibly thin stitches can do to your life. But upwards and onwards.

I have one more update to do before I head off to bed, but enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone.

Ollie