"Mum what does a cornea look like?" from Charlotte
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"Mum what does a cornea look like?" from Charlotte
Random things to do at breakfast - when your daughter asks what a donor cornea looks like and you find yourself cutting a tiny round piece off a roll of clingfilm for her to look at and touch and you hope that its about right because you've not ever seen a cornea before
"Promise me you'll always remember that you're braver than you believe, you are stronger than you seem and smarter than you think" .....Winnie the Pooh
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GarethB
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Re: "Mum what does a cornea look like?" from Charlotte
Good news on the recovery.
You need totake Charlotte to your local butcher and ask for a couple of bulls eyes and take them home to disect
Below are the Pentacam scans of my grafts taken in 2011, right graft then was 22 years and the left was just getting ready to celebrate its 21st birthday. When these were taken I had already been seeing through someone elses corneas for longer than I had seen out of my own and both grafts are still going strong!
You can see that it appeasr i am looking up but that is just the orientation of the picture, but you can clearly see a white vertical line which is the scar tissue where the graft joins to the old cornea. "New" cornea is highlighted with a red line on top and a green line below as this was used by the consultant to get an idea of how thick the graft is. The horizontal line is the iris and the smudge like a bowl with the yellow line on top is the lens of the eye.
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Hope this helps and please pm me with your email if you would like a larger image to show Charlotte.
You need totake Charlotte to your local butcher and ask for a couple of bulls eyes and take them home to disect
Below are the Pentacam scans of my grafts taken in 2011, right graft then was 22 years and the left was just getting ready to celebrate its 21st birthday. When these were taken I had already been seeing through someone elses corneas for longer than I had seen out of my own and both grafts are still going strong!
You can see that it appeasr i am looking up but that is just the orientation of the picture, but you can clearly see a white vertical line which is the scar tissue where the graft joins to the old cornea. "New" cornea is highlighted with a red line on top and a green line below as this was used by the consultant to get an idea of how thick the graft is. The horizontal line is the iris and the smudge like a bowl with the yellow line on top is the lens of the eye.
LEFT
RIGHT
Hope this helps and please pm me with your email if you would like a larger image to show Charlotte.
Gareth
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Re: "Mum what does a cornea look like?" from Charlotte
Thanks Gareth,
Yes please, I would like to see a larger image so I'll pm you my email address.
I think I'll hold off on the trip to the butchers tho
Char will have nightmares!! lol
Thanks for sharing the pictures!
Angie
Yes please, I would like to see a larger image so I'll pm you my email address.
I think I'll hold off on the trip to the butchers tho
Char will have nightmares!! lolThanks for sharing the pictures!
Angie
"Promise me you'll always remember that you're braver than you believe, you are stronger than you seem and smarter than you think" .....Winnie the Pooh
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Re: "Mum what does a cornea look like?" from Charlotte
GarethB wrote:Larger resolution pictures sent.
received with big thanks, goodness me! they're very in-depth aren't they?
Thanks for taking the time to send them, really appreciate it.
Angie and Charlotte
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Mousework
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Re: "Mum what does a cornea look like?" from Charlotte
just point to a window
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Re: "Mum what does a cornea look like?" from Charlotte
Mousework wrote:just point to a window
mmm yeah but Charlotte needs more precise re size etc given her LD cheers tho,
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