Picture of graft at seven weeks

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Picture of graft at seven weeks

Postby piper » Tue 19 Dec 2006 1:18 am

Here is a picture of my graft at seven weeks, eight stitches out and eight to go.


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And a pic of my un-grafted eye with a huge contact on it.....complete with a bubble at the bottom showing that my eye has changed shape and the contact no longer fits like it should. Image

cheers, Piper

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Postby John Smith » Tue 19 Dec 2006 1:34 am

Great pics, Piper. Thanks for sharing them.

It's great to see that your grafted eye is looking so good.
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Postby Alison Fisher » Tue 19 Dec 2006 1:44 am

Good pictures piper. :D

How did you take them?
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Postby piper » Tue 19 Dec 2006 2:43 am

Alison, just used the common digital camera, a Panasonic, in closeup mode, then cropped them with my Macintosh. Then I went to http://www.teamsouthbound.com/pictureprocessor/ which converts any picture to one we can post here, and simply pasted them in with the little "img" button that shows up when you reply to a post. Like many things in life, easy to do , the third time you try.

I have my camera set for maximum definition and that helps. They show up nice on the monitor screens, but really nice on print paper.

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Postby Andrew MacLean » Tue 19 Dec 2006 7:15 am

Your eye is looking good, Piper. all the best

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Postby samba_elite » Tue 19 Dec 2006 3:44 pm

Piper,how's the sight in the grafted eye now compared to pre-op,and how many times have you had to go back since?


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Postby piper » Wed 20 Dec 2006 3:56 am

Overall, the vision in the graft eye is not focused, but I see basically one, messy image. Prior to the graft i was seeing many, like a countable 40-sort of focused images and the inevitable smearing between all of them. Prior to the graft, my left eye was better and gave a more usable picture of the world......now, it is the bad eye without a contact in it. But, with no contact in the remaining eye and the un-focused graft, the world is still a confusing place.

I went back at 24-hours, seven days, 14 days, 28 days and four weeks......and will go again at three months.

Piper


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