UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

The upside of having a problem with my 'seeing eye' is that it focused attention on the need to do something about my spare.

On October 27 they will start to bring my spare eye back into commission by doing a DALK graft. I look forward to having binocular vision, however briefly, when my left eye is open again for business.

Andrew

Sorry so busy wallowing in my own misery!

That s good news. Are they going to try to do anything with the cateract?

Hi Andrew, that is good news.

Do you know how the op is going to be performed? Are you having live or freeze-dried tissue? Are you having the epithelium scraped? Will you have to have your eyelid closed?

Andrew, that is so good news. Nothing is like the feeling when you can see again. Slowly or rapidly, all the same. I have had two such periods in life. The first when I got my first RK lenses as a 13 year old boy. Secondly now this last year, with lasik correction of old graft and new graft. I wish you all the same experience and the joy of seeing. Nothing compares to that.

John

Will get the answers at my next hospital appt in september.

They will pursue a wait and see policy with the cataract. In any case it is too soon to operate on it just now, although they do think that the cataract is the cause of the change to my post graft astigmatism.

At last, a date.

Andrew

Pre theatre appointment arrived today. Ten days before surgery: October 17.

A visit to cardiology to make sure that my heart still beats then up to the ward to be poked and prodded. They will ask me if I know what is to happen, and I'll pretend not to be afraid of the whole procedure.

Andrew

Andrew had to read the post twice

First time coungered up the image of your surgeon lurking round street corners and blind alleys ready to inflict damage to some unsuspecting individual already identified and steal a cornea

In light of Gareth's post I have altered my post (above).

Thanks Gareth. I am pretty sure that my surgeon does not harvest potential tissue himself!

Andrew

Sorry,

Think the fact I have been asked to write three reports by the end of the day that actually take 8 days each to compile the data has finally got to me

Just need to find where I parked the TARDIS and all will be fine

Gareth

I may have caught sight of your TARDIS out of the corner of my eye. There was something there, but it was veiled in an SEP zone, so I can't be sure ...

All the best with your reports.

Andrew