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Postby Andrew MacLean » Sat 15 Apr 2006 8:50 am

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I think this is fairly common, I had something similar. where would we be without chloramphenicol?

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Postby Sweet » Sat 15 Apr 2006 9:59 am

Hehe we use it so dam much that we are great at spelling it to!! LOL!! :wink: :roll: :P

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Postby Andrew MacLean » Sat 15 Apr 2006 1:30 pm

And pronouncing its name!
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Postby Per » Sat 15 Apr 2006 7:17 pm

Sweet wrote:Hehe we use it so dam much that we are great at spelling it to!! LOL!! :wink: :roll: :P

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Dyslecticus Bunnyhuntricae Norwegicus is my latin name. Pink bunny-nurses should watch out for creatures like that ! :lol:

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Postby Andrew MacLean » Sat 15 Apr 2006 8:37 pm

If it was Latin it would have to be dyslegere (bad reading) ... :oops: although the dys bit is Greek "dus", related to the german "zer". Another possibility, if you wanted to go for all Greek instead of new latin is dyslegein (bad speach)

Finally, zerlegein would work, but that would be a bit far from your intended pun on the bunny hunter.

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Postby JaneWebb » Thu 20 Apr 2006 9:54 am

It's been more than two years since my graft and the hospital were a little puzzled as to why my sight had barely improved even after the sutures were removed and suggested I must have always had a 'lazy' eye.

I was more than a little put out about that as I had never been diagnosed with a lazy eye before.

The condition of the eye,however, had improved immensely and declared the op a success. I now wear a post graft lens which is very comfortable.

After going for a simple eye test to update my glasses, the optician said that before surgery my sight was -27 and it's now -5 so my sight seems to have improved without me even realising it!!
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Postby Per » Thu 20 Apr 2006 10:10 pm

post-Easter update.:

As told I had some serious problems during Easter. Pain and red eye. It seemed to be another micro-small part of the outer layer of the cornea that was loose and caused irritation. The surgeon said it looked like epithelium gathering around the stith where I had my previous graft wound. He had never seen such a thing before and removed the loose parts. A few days later the clear vision was back and no rejection. Hopefully this problem will not return. But this incident reaaly touches the question raised by jayuk earlier this spring regarding stithes/no stitches and rejection problems.

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Postby Andrew MacLean » Fri 21 Apr 2006 9:14 am

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Is this problem native to the type of graft you had, or can it arise with any graft procedure?

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Postby Per » Sat 22 Apr 2006 8:11 am

Since this is a surface demage i would think that the type of graft does not matter. Normally, wounds like this heals without problems. But this time - since the wound was so close to one of the stithces - the epithelium cells had developed a "sausage" of corneal epithelium attathced to the stich causing irritation.

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Postby Andrew MacLean » Sat 22 Apr 2006 2:09 pm

Ouch!

How are things now?

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