I'm Back
Posted: Mon 08 Aug 2005 10:29 am
Hi all, remember me? I had my graft to the left eye on June 21st and so far touch wood its been ok. I don't have any useful vision from it but from day one I have only had to use one lot of drops-(pred forte)- steroids. No problems with pressure and no rejection episodes yet She said tempting fate.
However life has not been all plain sailing. I came out of hospital on the Wednesday and on the Sunday I couldn't keep off the loo. This went on for about a week and I went to my GP. I had contracted salmonella! From where we will never know but amazingly no other family member had it !
It gets worse. My salmonella was so severe that it developed into Reuter's which basically means that I contracted reactive arthritis which left me unable to walk at all. My temperature flew up and I ended up in hospital for a week. When my husband went on the website to look up all of these symptoms we found that in severe cases reuters can also cause problems with the cornea - ulcers I think it said.
Can you believe my luck!
I am still off work, not so much cos of the graft, but the arthritis is still quite bad. I am still submitting samples and I still have salmonella!
As you can imagine I have been quite depressed to say the least. I have tried to post on the forum a few times before now to let you know that all was well with the graft but didn't feel up to it!
I would like to reassure anyone who is about to take the plunge that the graft operation was nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be. I hardly had any pain from day one and so far all is sweet!
However life has not been all plain sailing. I came out of hospital on the Wednesday and on the Sunday I couldn't keep off the loo. This went on for about a week and I went to my GP. I had contracted salmonella! From where we will never know but amazingly no other family member had it !
It gets worse. My salmonella was so severe that it developed into Reuter's which basically means that I contracted reactive arthritis which left me unable to walk at all. My temperature flew up and I ended up in hospital for a week. When my husband went on the website to look up all of these symptoms we found that in severe cases reuters can also cause problems with the cornea - ulcers I think it said.
Can you believe my luck!
I am still off work, not so much cos of the graft, but the arthritis is still quite bad. I am still submitting samples and I still have salmonella!
As you can imagine I have been quite depressed to say the least. I have tried to post on the forum a few times before now to let you know that all was well with the graft but didn't feel up to it!
I would like to reassure anyone who is about to take the plunge that the graft operation was nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be. I hardly had any pain from day one and so far all is sweet!