Just when you think it's all plain sailing

[DXP55]

Ta.

Today was my 2 monthly visit to eye hospital. I have finally got them to give me early morning appointments so got there for 8.45 - Stop at desk and log in and they tell you to sit over there.
A very nice nurse came out and shouted John Smith come with me - They sat me down in a chair in front of what i thought was a lens but it turn out to be a blast of air on your eyeballs.- Have to say these new ones do not blow your eyeball out -just a light puff. -I was then asked to read the letters on wall - Managed a few with bad eye but could easy read third from bottom and then a few from last two lines.

They then put some of those drops in my eye that stings like hell then told me to follow the yellow brick road. - There is a yellow line painted on floor that takes you to the eye clinic so sat down on chair and found i was surounded by loads of Gerry hat tricks.
Got called in for pictures to be taken of both eyes.- sat down again -Then 10 min later got call to top dog- She was very pleasant and asked if I was happy with my left eye -Ahhhhhhhhhh -My right eye is the problem - Seems there is slight bleed on left eye now so she told me they are now using this as a marker for future pictures - anymore bleeds and it's a jab in left eye as well - Just what I bloody want.- Look up and in went a dose of anasthetic - sat down again.

Got called to nurse or Doc who was giving the jabs - Quick chat and more anasthetics then they dragged me off to operating room - lay on bed and had hat put on -some wads to hold liquids then shut your eyes and load of yellow liquid was squirted on my lids -A wet cloth then wiped it all over till it was clean then she said look up -wam a eye lid clamp went on -look down and same thing - I can't blink -Don't worry it's OK -

I was now thinking last time they put about 9 doses of anasthetic in but today ony three - In she came with the needle and said look at her mate and as I did that she jabbed needle in and emptied it in my eyeball - That was easy - got cleaned up and clamp out and she said ok sit up ---- That is when I saw it. - WHAT is this - I have two round rubber oil seals in my eye - Don't worry it happens all the time - Not to me this is first in about 15 jabs - It will go in a day or two. - Imagine you have a thin metal/plastic rod sticking out of your forhead and on the end is a piece of cotton holding up two rubber oil seals tied together dangling in front of your eye - Thats what it looked like but it's in my eye.

A bit of googling said it is Weiss ring or something like that and it is air bubbles. It doesn't hurt but when you lean forward these two rubber ring float up into your vision -look down and they drop below your lower lid.

And to top all this off I had to let wife drive us home -That is worse than eye jab.

So ladies and gentlemen - every year get yourself to opticians and get your eyes tested -Or if you notice a problem - it might cost a bit but I can assure you all your eyes are worth ten times that - Your eyes are the only part of your body they can't replace. You can't read or write -sit at PC on here or gaming -driving- footy -golf -snooker or any sort of hobby - cooking -making tea or coffee -the list goes on.

 

[DXP55]

Really Sorry to hear you had to go through this, How the car ?

The car did survive a head on with wifes sisters house - she pulled up kerb to park on front and hit throttle (auto) if it hadn't been less than 6 month old it would have been a write off. She has parked in one of those 90 deg slots and run front up kerb- backed off and pulled plastic covers off under rad.

After reading some of these replies I feel very humble with my injections and now you know there is always someone else having a far worst time than yourself.
Although the injections sound bad it isn't that bad (for me) You can feel the pin head (The other word was starred out) as needle is pushed in and the feeling of it going in but I have to say it has never hurt -Just a funny feeling.
Good news this morning is the rubber oil seals have dispersed so today is back to normal sight.

When I got there there must have been 10 people in queue all waiting for injections and most were as or older than me - One bloke I talked to once was in for his 50th.

Thanks for reading and spread the word -Look after your eyes.

 

[DXP55]

I know the wife driving bit at the end was meant to be light-hearted, but your thread is pretty topical to me at the moment.

I had a round of eye surgeries this year, with 4 trips to operating theatre. It started with cataract surgery which is normally a 15-30 minute procedure but it took 2h 50m for me due to complications from being from the high end of myopia. I was awake for 2 of the operations, one of which involved an injection taking a sample from my eye and another injection which administered some antibiotics. Despite the local anaesthetic, yellow drops as described by @DXP55 , the needles were absolute agony for me, to the extent that I struggled to keep still, constantly gasping in pain. My reactions were involuntary.

Good message in your thread though, in that the eyes are vital in that they account for 80% of all of your sensory input. I only added that long paragraph above due to the jabs being the worst pain I have experienced. I've had teeth extractions from the dentist under a local, been blue-lighted to A&E following a car accident and needed 10 stitches inside of my mouth, so I know what pain is to a small extent, but nothing comes close to eye jabs pain-wise

That sounds bad - Did you go to Leyton near Crewe ? - Wife went there for her cataracts and they did a good job.

 

[DXP55]

In the rankings of how unpleasant checkups are, opticians is pretty tame. Wait til you get to prostate exam age!

(Actually, it's not that bad, get it checked)

Was at Doc for something then out of the blue Doc said take your trousers down and lay on bed facing the wall with your knees up.
Because it come out of the blue i just did it and next thing I saw was a cumberland sausage covered in vaseline heading for my rear end- It hurt some - enough to be uncomfortable and thankfully everything was OK - So if anyone has a South African white female 6ft Doctor built like a brick karzie with hands like a paddies shovel and fingers like cumberland sausages that was the gal.

Which would I take if given choice - Eye injection any day.