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Good news for once!!! :)

Postby Sweet » Mon 02 Apr 2007 2:46 pm

Hey everyone!!!

I am just about to burst!!!!!!!!! LOL!!! :oops: :lol: For once I have good news!!!

I have just come back from Moorfields and have now got my new lens for my grafted eye! So excited as the optom with my private surgeon couldn't find a lens that I found comfortable, but this new lens is fantastic! I can't feel it! Hehe some here post graft might guess that this is a Rose K and they are right :D It is the greatest thing ever, as I now read four lines when I could only see a light box before!!! :lol: 8) :P I did see three lines with sclerals but they were so painful that I gave up. Ecstatic is not a big enough word now!!! I now have binocular vision which I have never had!!! 30 years to finally see well with BOTH eyes!!! :lol: :P

The only sad thing is that I have just taken this lens out as I need to build up wearing time. Hehe a big thing for me when I have never done that and this lens just feels so dam nice!! Awww it's gone now until tomorrow hehe

BUT ... then I get to play with it again for two hours!!!!!!!! :roll: :P :lol:

A HUGE thank you to everyone here who posted when I went for a graft, for all the support I have had, for loads of help and advice when everyone including me was amazed when I did have some patience to wait almost two years to get good vision, and for all the lovely friends I have made along the way!!

Thanks all! :D :lol: 8)
Sweet X x X

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Postby Sarah M » Mon 02 Apr 2007 2:54 pm

Excellent news sweet - you deserve it!

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Postby Pat A » Mon 02 Apr 2007 3:02 pm

Sweet
So, so pleased for you! You deserve some good news so much!

Just one question though -am I right in thinking that you have got the RoseK lens as a private patient - and not on the NHS? Just want to check after what Moorfields told me last week!
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Postby Sweet » Mon 02 Apr 2007 3:18 pm

Hehe thanks!

I had my graft done privately on my left eye, but I was seeing Moorfields for both eyes and have lenses in the right eye with them where I use piggybacking. I asked them to please look at my grafted eye when I had a check up on the right eye in December and told them about the problems I was having with the private optom I was referred to by my surgeon and Moorfields fitted me with a lens I can't feel which is fantastic!

Even though I went private to get the graft done Moorfields will treat you as a NHS patient if you already are one at the hospital and so I finally paid and got a lens for this eye. I have no worries about paying for eye problems and would have kept this grafted eye as private as I wanted to see! The optom I was referred to was just unable to fit me so I went back to Moorfields as I am a patient with them for both eyes!!

Hope that made sense!!
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Postby GarethB » Mon 02 Apr 2007 3:31 pm

Claire,

Excellent news.

Pat, both my Rose K lenses are on the NHS, many optoms in the lens unit refer to them as RGP just like anyother RGP lens because they are made from the same material.
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Postby ChrisK » Mon 02 Apr 2007 4:12 pm

Superb news sweet. :D

You were due some good news to cheer. :D

Enjoy your two hours tomorrow. :D
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Postby Andrew MacLean » Mon 02 Apr 2007 4:17 pm

that is excellent news Sweet: you have made me feel much better at the end of an otherwise undistinguished day!
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Postby Michael P » Mon 02 Apr 2007 4:40 pm

Great news. I am so, so pleased for you.
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Postby mike scott » Mon 02 Apr 2007 6:22 pm

fantastic news

its success like yours that help me to come to terms with my impending transplant.

very very encouraging

have heard these rose k lenses feel like a velvet glove. is it true? :)
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Postby Sweet » Mon 02 Apr 2007 6:24 pm

They are fantastic! I tried piggy backing before which is not a good thing for grafts as Moorfields have since told me but it was painful and the lenses wouldn't stay in place. Am hoping that this Rose K lens will be great!!!

Wishing you all the best when you have a graft!!
Sweet X x X

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