UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

Wishing someone here all the best for a graft this week. I'm not going to put their name here as i'm not sure if they want to share this yet, but i know that they will know that this post is for them!!! Hehe to this person if you are like me then you won't say which day you are going although you've just told me now!! I only told a couple of people here as i was so worried about it being cancelled or something going wrong so i'm sure that friends here will understand if you don't post it.

Am thinking of you and wishing you all the best and i'm sure that others here will send you loads of good luck!!

Take it easy, i'll talk to you at the end of the week hopefully when i have moved! I'm sure you will be fine and am hoping that i answered all your questions, hehe i am a little hard to get hold of online sometimes as i do a lot of hiding!

Thinking of you, Sweet X x X

Im sure hell be ok! they dont refer him to Knight Raider for no reason! lol...although I give him something! he got balls!...he has asked for a Local rather than a General anesthetic

He has said that he'll post about the whole procedure...(which is soo valuable on here; as many are now being offered the DALK)..so it will be a very good opp to get a full month by month journey......

J

PS - its the poster Knight by the way going in tomorrow...he said to tell the board! so I am

In which case, very best wishes indeed for your graft Please do keep us all informed. I know we're all thinking of you.

Hehe well am glad that he is wanting to tell everyone now! Gee a local that is very scary but something i would have preferred as well. He will be fine i know.

Sweet X x X

Wow

all the best

andrew

Hey thanx guys for the wishes of support and I am super pleased this thread is here, I was keeping it a little silent because this will have been the third time I was due to get the op and didn't want any false alarms - I was only told by my surgeon on Sunday morning, who informed me there was an availablity, a cancellation - I was next on the list - so it was DROP everything, pack what I could remember and get my ass down to the hospital...
I am glad to report, everything went like clock work (althou there was some side issues) - oh and yes I had a local-anes for the DALK op itself which took a shade under 2hrs to complete, extremely interesting experience and I have to tell, much of what has happened - the op itself and the prep before it, is much unlike any of the case studies and personal accounts that I have read so far. I suppose much of this is truly down to personal perspective, location, team of Doctors and my personal awareness of each little step of the whole thing - many little pieces of information I discovered (as new) and have kept a log/journal of as much as I could possibly take notes on during this.
I will post 'my account' in due course, as I am only out of hospital a couple of hours and I have much to type up.
Most of the medical information, specifics and technical stuff I will gather together in the following week when I return for a checkup to the clinic - but when I feel up to it by the weekend, I shall post a good long 'story' from a 'patient's' perspective.
So far I feel good, my eye sight is as expected, blur-cloudy but way better than it was prior to the operation and I am extremely pleased - there is pain which varies from slight to rather sharp and jaggy but the collection of eyedrops and painkillers are managing it.

to be continued ...

Knight!

Bloody hell wasnt expected you to post so soon!

Hope things go well over the next few days!!....interersting points you mentioned and look forward to your view on how it went and what occured! Although; I do give you allow of respect for going Local rather than General!!!

J

Well congratulations for going through it, and respect to you for having it done under a local. Just a couple of years ago it seemed that noone would dare - but now it's getting more common. I'd still have a general though - I'm too much of a chicken, and I don't think that fainting on the operating table would be all that helpful to the theatre staff!

Look forward to your account of a DALK though!

All the best in your recovery.

John

Def agree with you there....having seen this done in a video....the only thing that I would have concern about is the part where they inject the eye to stop it moving.....to me thats the bit I cringe at..the rest im A OKAY with!.......wierd! ...but I am assuming that the anesthetic drops in the eye stops the pain of the injection!

J

Very soon back there Knight. Will be interresting to read your experiences.

Jay and John, I thought they all did local now, that only the dows syndrome - patients get a general because they won´t lie still on the bench. I certainly got that loooong needle behid the eye, even had to have a local in the skin prior to that to prevent the pain when they press it in. So I "watched" the entire process. Interresting was they put on classical music during the op, the relaxing type. not like in a horror movie

And Jay, you aren´t supposed to watch the video BEFORE the op:)