Great Disappointment Today
Posted: Mon 12 Feb 2007 9:55 pm
Hey all, sorry to be the sad-sack today, but you all will understand this. Few others, anyplace else, will.
i went in early to the optham and optometrist today, hoping to get a contact lens on my graft and get a date for the second , simple DALK transplant.
Well, I was measured.....measured again.....measured by someone else.......viewed carefully......measured again and finally got a test contact.....made no difference in the vision or view of the little letters. OK,,,,,,try another lens.....then measure 2-3 times with the lens in.
OK, roll out the big guns. Got BATTED...with a sort of lighted chamber held over the graft with a small round window in the far side. "Can you read the letters now? " sure.....about like before. Then, BANG.....they turned on a bright light in the little chamber. "How about now?"......damn, the little round window had disappeared.
Then, down the hall to take a contour map of my retina, after the drops that enlarge the pupil.
Then, back to the optham to look at the retina, etc with all sorts of big handheld magnifiers.
Finally, troop in all the opthams to be, lined up and taking turns , since, "Mr Davis is a very interesting case, everyone look very carefullly than come outside and tell me what you see, and where." said the chief optham.
Later, the head honcho, a man of great skill and high regard comes back in and sits down on the desk and says, "Well, here is what's going on here.....I think the graft is OK......it looks like your retina is OK....but you now have a cataract in your graft eye, and also one in the ungrafted eye. We'll let the graft eye go for now, and do a PK on your left eye and install and new lens at that time."
All I want is just what you all want.....I just want to be able to see.
I have been pretty upbeat about the whole thing till now.....thinking that we were on the road to being corrected. Today I hit the bottom and could have sat there and cried except that the tears would have made the doctors' work even tougher. Dammit. Thanks for reading my complaint!!
Piper
i went in early to the optham and optometrist today, hoping to get a contact lens on my graft and get a date for the second , simple DALK transplant.
Well, I was measured.....measured again.....measured by someone else.......viewed carefully......measured again and finally got a test contact.....made no difference in the vision or view of the little letters. OK,,,,,,try another lens.....then measure 2-3 times with the lens in.
OK, roll out the big guns. Got BATTED...with a sort of lighted chamber held over the graft with a small round window in the far side. "Can you read the letters now? " sure.....about like before. Then, BANG.....they turned on a bright light in the little chamber. "How about now?"......damn, the little round window had disappeared.
Then, down the hall to take a contour map of my retina, after the drops that enlarge the pupil.
Then, back to the optham to look at the retina, etc with all sorts of big handheld magnifiers.
Finally, troop in all the opthams to be, lined up and taking turns , since, "Mr Davis is a very interesting case, everyone look very carefullly than come outside and tell me what you see, and where." said the chief optham.
Later, the head honcho, a man of great skill and high regard comes back in and sits down on the desk and says, "Well, here is what's going on here.....I think the graft is OK......it looks like your retina is OK....but you now have a cataract in your graft eye, and also one in the ungrafted eye. We'll let the graft eye go for now, and do a PK on your left eye and install and new lens at that time."
All I want is just what you all want.....I just want to be able to see.
I have been pretty upbeat about the whole thing till now.....thinking that we were on the road to being corrected. Today I hit the bottom and could have sat there and cried except that the tears would have made the doctors' work even tougher. Dammit. Thanks for reading my complaint!!
Piper