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It honestly wasn't bad at all. I'm terrible when I don't know what to expect, so I was extremely nervous and anxious when they did the first eye. The second one was a piece of cake. Do it.
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Because of the plot complication in my chest, they want me to have the procedure done at the regional trauma center. I've been putting it off for a year, and guess I'll have to do it soon because black-on-black (or even reading the analog instrument cluster in the almost-Mighty Freightliner) is increasingly becoming a challenge for me.....
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Went flawlessly and great results. Noticeable difference already. Again the eye was dilated and remained that way thru the evening. Other eye drops included numbing agent and antibiotics. The anesthesia/twilight was the most interesting. Could just make out the procedure although blurry and the kaleidoscope affect was there, actually could see the shadow of the old lense being removed and the new one inserted. Could also hear doctor and nurses talking and background noise, although I couldn't seem to move or speak. Kinda sureal, just needed Dark Side of Moon album playing in the background. Vision in eye is near 20 Vision. Still some side effects, just a small blurriness and flashes but should clear up within the day. Looking forward for my other eye, scheduled in a couple of weeks. Hoping to convince the Doctor to play a little Pink Floyd during surgery. 😆
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^ Glad to hear it went well. Second eye will be easier because now you know what to expect.
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^ Thanks!
Was a bit nervous going into this, but agree the second should be a breeze.
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I've had mine done and can't say enough good things about it - improved my vision both clarity and they put in corrective lenses so now I have good vision w/o glasses. They told me that almost everybody has to go back to get the remnant sheath 'zapped' afterwards, nothing to worry about (I think this is that YAG mentioned earlier?) - did that w/ me and it took about 10 minutes, just a new and different lightshow.
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For some years now I've gotten an annual and, more recently, semi-annual, checkup with a dermatologist. About six years ago or so, she found a precancer on my left ear lobe and I got that area excised in a quick surgery -- leaving me a bit asymmetric.
Just recently she found squamous cell cancer on the top of the same ear and so now I fear I will be a bit more lopsided with surgery scheduled for June 17th. The left ear is the one that tends to get the sun when driving. My hope is that she will not have to take too much tissue.
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Had open-heart surgery 2.5 years ago to replace my Aortic Valve at 55 years old. I was born with a bicuspid Aortic Valve instead of the normal tricuspid version. The bicuspid version tends to calcify quicker than the normal valve. I found out about it about ten years ago, with the cardiologist telling me, "you WILL need to have that replaced at some point, can't tell you when, 3, 5, 10 years, but you will know when you do". August 2021 I am walking up the hill in front of my lake house and I feel "weird", have to take a breather. Call my cardiologist and he refers me across the floor to the surgery side of their practice. I see the surgeon and he tells me it is time, not immediate, but within the next year. It's mid-August and we schedule it for 10/20. The anxiety gets the better of me and I call him after Labor Day and ask when the earliest he can get me in is. I am on the table on 9/17. Post surgery he comes in and says he wished he had videoed the surgery as I was a textbook case. Surgery supposed to take 3-5 hours, but I am in and out in 2.5. I was up the next day and discharged "as soon as he was allowed". So, I have a bovine manufactured valve with a 10-15 year life. It will need to be replaced and they would probably do that via a TAVR, going in through my groin in an out-patient procedure.
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Yeah, I'm quite healthy, and everyone is less worried than me, it's a curse. I'd like to get an angiogram with contrast, just for the hell of it, but it'll cost me at least $2500, so I'll wait until the doc says he thinks I need it.
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As long as you keep a close eye on your pressure I'm sure it'll be fine until you find another one. A lot of times people on BP meds don't take their pressure at all, just assuming it's where it needs to be because they are taking meds for it.
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Yea, my doc says it's the people that never think about checking their BP that most worry him. Prolonged high bp is not good. My condition was genetic and did not present itself until the calcification was enough to cause a murmur. The week before I had the procedure and had a pre-surgery visit with a nurse, she said she could hear it clearly. I had my surgery at 55, but my surgeon told me he had done the same surgery on a 27 year old the week before I went in.
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I've been taking BP meds for a long time, and yes, you need to keep an eye on it. To assume your meds are always working as they should be is... well, you know what they say about assume.
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For replacement lenses to replace the organic lenses removed I opted for the standard lenses with distance correction. Both surgeries went well. But was a bit nauseous from the anesthetic after the 1st surgery. Second time just before surgery I was given something to counter the nausea and I was given less anesthetic. First surgery I was out. Don't recall a thing. But I was "awake" during the 2nd surgery but all I remember is a bright light and the doctor telling me to turn my head slightly once or twice. No complications. Both eyes recovered in nearly no time. Distance vision was superb. For near vision I tried off the shelf reading glasses for a while but it was a pain having to put them on then take them off. Decided better just to have glasses that gave me reading correction yet didn't mess up my good distance vision. After my eyes settled down I got corrective lenses (clear and dark/polarized) to deal with a bit of astigmatism and to provide reading correction. I chose the progressive style rather than bifocal or trifocal lenses with the distinct lines. I had progressive lenses before surgery and adapted to them very well. At some point I did have to have one inserted lens "zapped" to deal with a bit of fogginess. But the lens in the other eye never needed this. |
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Had my second colonoscopy recently. Thankfully all clear. Not a single polyp. I’ve been having some occasional trouble swallowing over the last several years. That’s actually what prompted the first colonoscopy. At that time I also had an endoscopy and it showed nothing. They did the endoscopy and colonoscopy at the same time. Recently the swallowing difficulty had become more frequent. It usually happens just as I begin to eat and I have to pause for a minute or two and it passes. But, recently I had an episode where it lasted at least five minutes and I couldn’t even swallow my saliva and I had to step away and go spit. Then I had to wait several minutes before it passed. That made me think I have to get it checked again. So, I went to the gastroenterologist for that and since it had been seven years since the colonoscopy I talked him into doing it again, just like before. This time he also stretched my esophagus some. The endoscopy didn’t show anything this time either, thankfully. My throat was a little sore for two or three days, but the stretching was pretty successful, because I haven’t had any swallowing issues since. Very thankful for that. Feeling like you can’t swallow is pretty disconcerting.
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