UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

Yesterday my niece turned one, she is my sister who has kcs daughter, she was also baptised (I am now her godmother) any way there was a huge bbq and heaps of people, and when we arrived my sister asked my husband (who is a vet) if he could remove a stitch from her eye. Paul refused, but my sister had surgery (astigmatic keratotomy ) kast year and was in a bit of discomfort. We told her she needed to ring our opthal and get to Melbourne to get it removed and left it there ( I am ashamed to say, but so much else was happening and we had both had and dealt with loose stitches.) Later after most of the guest had left and we were finally getting coffee and opening the gifts mjy sisters eye was really bothering her again and I told her to take some panadol, she had been adn we started to discuss the eye a bit more. Then I remembers my rejection, which I thought originally was a loose stitch. So I told her to go to casualty and get her eye looked at, if they could see a loose stitch she could go down this week to Melbourne and get it removed, if they could not it may be something worse and we starting increasing the pred and getting her to Melbourne ASAP. Honestly up until then I had not even thought of rejection, (can you believe it) but once it had crossed my mind I felt she needed to rule it out straight away. So we went to the local hospital, and they dr looked in her eye, but admitted she did not even know what she was looking for. By this time my sisters eye was watering like a tap, the blood vessels were enlarged, it was red and she was in pain and glare sensitive. I felt something was up, best case scenario was a loose stitch. The dr rang the eye and ear and they wanted her down there, so my mum bundled her in the car and drove her. Her hubby felt guilty he was not able to drive her but he had been drinking. Whne she got there they immediatly saw the loose stitch and removed it. Immediatte relief, for my sister, and me after they rang me a little after midnight. Because we live in the bush we have never had to use the eye casualty facilities available in Melbourne. In fact if it was not for eye casualty being mentioned here I would not have even known what they were. I had noticed their was an emergeny department there when I attended one of their clinics, but that was the breadth of my knowledge. But thanks to this site I was able to tell my sister what (would probably) be available for her at the eye and ear and a bit of what to expect. Anyway she is home all is well and we surived another KC adventure, but I just wanted to share the tale.

Wow Prue, quite a day!

You'll have to write it up and put record of it in the scrapbook with you nieces christening photographs, so that one day you can tell her what the grown ups, who love her, were doing on her big day. And why her mother looks as though she is crying on all the photos!

Brigid

Thanks for posting that Prue, and I'm glad your sister wasn't suffering a rejection.

It did sound like the classic RSVP though (Redness, Sensitivity to light, Vision change and Pain) as the four signs of rejection.

You were right to get her to eye casualty.

Funnily enough, I started a rejection (no. 6 or 7, I think) on my godson's first birthday. The KC fairy has a lot to answer for with god-children!

I am so happy that it all turned out ok in the end and that it was a loose stitch and nothing worse. It is good to know as well that us adding info here really helps!

Hopefully she will feel better today and it's good that the christening went ok as well! Hehe i have had a lot of loose stitches but only really felt one but that was after some had been removed earlier in the day and the tension later pulled another one out!

Take care ... Sweet X x X

A lesson for all, if in doubt get it checked out