| BuzzLightyear 2004-10-16, 7:11 pm |
| Well I for one am glad this was posted. I'm in the situation of
having one eye lasered successfully and the other with a buttonhole.
So I now have 20/20 in my right eye, and am -5.75 in the left which
puts me in an extremely awkward situation until the left eye heals
enough for surgery again. I was told I should be able to wear a
contact in about 10 days from the surgery on the failed eye, but now,
if I do, I'm going to be extremely cautious about how I get the
contact in and out. I've worn contacts for the past 20 odd years and
really never gave much consideration to pulling them out. Now I will.
On this matter though, does anyone have any suggestions on if there's
any way to get glasses to work with my eye strenghts? I've got some
large glasses on order for the interim with plano power in the right,
and a little under my prescription in the left to ease using the
computer and watching TV, but if anyone has any clues on how this
should be done, I'd love to hear.
Ragnar Suomi <ragnarsuomi@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<5a0tk01977qrp28hl1e8fc7267p8r483pr@4ax.com>...
>
> The reason she initally just snipped bits from the article rather than
> post the link to it is because it was indicating how rare the
> complication is... as you noticed.
>
> Also, you can't really blame the flap or the lasik... here's why...
> Just what was she doing popping a contact lens into her eye for?
> After her surgery, her contacts prescription would screw up her vision
> completely. The only contact that would have been appropriate is a
> plano (zero power) bandage contact which obviously it wasn't. When
> she had problems getting it off her eye.. what was she thinking?
> "hmm.. had a flap made just 10 days ago.. should I go digging into my
> eye to remove a stuck contact lens?" I wore soft and RGP contacts for
> over 20 years... smart people slide them off the cornea onto the white
> sclera before trying to lift them off.
>
> Frankly, I'm amazed this complication doesn't happen much more often.
> What that patient did with the contact lens 10 days after surgery is
> nearly as stupid as that patient who went snorkeling shortly after
> surgery on vacation... far far away from her doctor's care in case
> something went awry. Anybody who is familiar with swimming underwater
> knows that the pressure even 6 feet underwater is tremendous.. not to
> mention the salt and amoebas, etc that are in the water and making
> contact with the healing flap. Some people just lack any common
> sense. It's not unlike the old SNLive sketch where two guys sit
> around and say things like 'didja ever take a powerdrill and try to
> remove nosehair with it? I hate it when that happens..."
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