[blparent] surgury

[Robert Shelton]

Shannan.  My right eye was removed in 1985 after 7 weeks of unnecessary
living hell.  The procedure and recovery was completely painless.  My
prosthesis is a plastic shell which rides over a silicon ball.  The plastic
shell can come out for cleaning; the silicon ball never comes out, and is,
in fact, tied to the muscles which would normally move your natural eye.
The prosthesis feels natural and apparently looks pretty good.  I've had two
eye doctors try to examine it thinking it was real.

This all happened while I was living in a small town in Upper Michigan.  The
7 week delay was not due to a recalcitrant insurance company, but because my
doctor and I considered removal of the eye to be only a last resort.  Many
eye doctors are reluctant to remove an eye if they think there is any
possible alternative.  Those concerns might have made sense for some people
years ago, but for a person with end-stage eye disease, with modern methods,
there is no reason to be any more concerned about removing the eye than
about any other major surgery.  The only real change I noticed was absence
of pain.  


-----Original Message-----
From: Shannan Zinck [mailto:shannanzinck at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 12:50 PM
To: blparent at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blparent] surgury

Hey everyone been a long time. This has been a pretty rough year for me.
Wondering If anyone here has had an eye removed while parenting a 2 year
old.  I'm supposed to have emergency surgury which could take anywhere from
2 weeks to 3 months to happen though the sooner the better. My son
understands enough to be careful not to touch my face (extremely painful if
he does) but, he is a toddler and a super active one at that. Also
wondering what if anything I can to to ease the headaches and nasuea until
they get around to taking the eye out. Is there a patch that is more
comfortable or something. I've tried the soft concave ones but, they put
too much pressure on my eye, the eye itself is so pressured that it sticks
out past the bone above it. Not pretty for sure. The plastic ones are near
impossible to get here and sunglasses are too dark for me. Not having much
luck. I discovered that the drops they put me on for pain raise the
pressure in my eye so concerned about using them. Also what's the recovery
like length discomfort and all that. Haven't had surgury in 20 years so a
lot has changed since then.  I haven't been able to do much with my son for
the past few months because I'm alway feeling lousey. He's being a great
sport about all this but, I'd like to find creative ways to spend time with
him that don't require much physical activety. Sorry I haven't been around
much just doing the bare min until things calm down. The computer hurts my
eyes if on too long so don't get to read much anymore. thanks.

-- 
Shannan Zinck
Survival is letting GOD take over!!!