Revision eye surgery on left eye : 7th July 2005

Quick one for now - in the pixs below, my left eye still has the remains of the eye gell that the plastic surgeon put in my eyes during surgery and today on the second day, there still remains some. Will post more later.

copy and paste from my earlier post at http://www.makemeheal.com eye forum:

I just got back from the hospital a few mins ago (I was ok to return home by myself). I am safe and well thanks. I had a few concerned text messages on my cell from my family (ie step sis and sis in singapore) and work who didn't know which hospital I'd gone into as I didn't want any flowers etc. My hospital was about 8-9 miles away from Central London and I had to check in by 7am so am safe, thx. It was a shocking day and my surgery was around 10.50am and I had then received vague news from the nurses about the bombing and again when I woke to find out that some had died and I was still groggy and in shock and it all seemed surreal. My heart and thoughts to those who have been affected.

A quick few lines from me - I'll update my eye blog later with the pictures - they'll be fairly easy to download as I just took pics of my eyes and won't need to crop and paste etc fingers crossed. I was in surgery for over an hour - it took a while for the general anaesthesia to kick in - not sure why - and everyone was waiting for me it seemed to fall asleep (perhaps I was fighing it (grins)); and then I felt my heart rate racing - whoah - it kept climing from 60 to 80 to 100 and I was about to say this aloud and my voice sounded so far in the distance and then I was out. Next thing i knew I was awake and I asked "Is it over already? Wow that was quick!". I found that quite amusing as it literally felt like I'd shut my eyes for a second and it was over.

My left eye felt like it had been cut when I woke up and it really hurt. But they wouldn't give me any painkillers cos I was still coming round from the general. I went in and out of sleep I think (all groggy now) and around 3.30pm they woke me up to give me some light sandwiches and I watched the news or tried to anyone with my blurry vision.Around 5pm the surgeon came in and said I could go home but could stay if I wanted to but I decided to stay as if I went home, it'd mean walking up and down stairs, feeding kitties, bending over etc. I was fine thankfully after the general anaesthesia as I had the same anaesthesist.

My eye is swollen and bruised though not as bad as the original upper/lower bleph and ptosis repair surgery. It'll be easier to explain when I post the pictures later today/tonite. My eye is swollen just like it was before though as it's only one eye it feels very different to the first surgery. It was difficult to watch tv as the surgeon had put medication in my right eye as well making the vision blurry. I had my eye drops with me at the hospital and this time was in the know and was able to use eye drops ie artificial tears and lacrilube when they got dry which was a big help. No excess bleeding this time like I did before (refer my original surgery pics which are a horror) http://indianaeyesheal.blogspot.com

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The plastic surgeon recommended I use ice packs which I did earlier by putting frozen peas into small plastic zip bags but they feel sore on my eyes. I prefer using the gauze cloth over my eyes like I did when I had my first bleph but they didn't give me any gauze to take home and mom bought darn eye patches instead ! Bleh. My left eye is bruising fast and I didn't take any arnica today cos I've been drinking water constantly .... arrgh ... I'm also fighting sleep .... not sure why ...