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Day 2 post-surgery.
If you think you are at risk for vision-distorting eye diseases, have regular vision tests and between exams, personally check each eye with an Amsler Grid. And PLEASE, see a physician if you notice any changes in vision; in some cases, it’s an emergency !
Fellow Flickrites: Pre-surgery, my corrected vision was 20/200 — legally blind. My post-surgery visual acuity, won’t be fully known for 6 months to a year. I currently have a vision-impairing gas bubble inserted in my eye, so please don’t expect any comments or responses for quite a while.
Sharing so that it may aid macular hole researchers:
I hadn’t picked up a camera in months. And then this happened – a rare macular hole that distorted the core, central vision of my dominant/left/viewfinder eye. Peripheral vision remained intact. It happened quietly, with no fireworks, no flashing lights. And my good eye kept the secret by compensating for the distortions I would have seen if only I had looked into my camera viewfinder to check settings and refine the focal area.
I am far-sighted and, with age, have very slightly blurred vision at all distances, so the macular hole also went unrecognized without (monovision) vision correction -- my left eye is corrected for long and mid-distance viewing (not reading, which is reserved for my right eye). There were no black holes, no white holes, no grey holes nor fuzziness. There was only a small area of central distortion – distortion that looking at distant organic landscapes went unnoticed. It was only with my right eye shut while looking at distant buildings that I noticed a slight dimpling of the straight vertical edges (Metamorphopsia) at the core of my vision. Signs of metamorphosia worsened as the date of my vitrectomy surgery grew near.
How I experienced metamorphosia in my left eye only:
•A single, small segment of distant buildings flared inward.
•At a distance of 20 feet, my seated cat appeared to have a head the size of a mouse (likewise, at a distance, humans had heads the size of a tennis ball. Up-close facial features displayed characteristics of a gravity well – features became smaller and swirled downward into a tube, as if it were seen through a concave lens.
•Thus, central objects appeared smaller and more distant than they were (micropsia).
•All peripheral vision was fine. If I looked even slightly off-center, all of the above-noted distortions disappeared – what was once distorted core vision became non-distorted peripheral vision.
Even though current research doesn’t support a genetic link, my mother was diagnosed with a macular hole at my age +/- 2 years. Also in her left eye, and never her right eye.
I have a family history of left eye dominance in right-handers.
Left eye macular hole with left eye dominance seems to be a shared trait of an unusually high number of macular hole bloggers (my personal, casual observation).
For more information about macular holes : www.nei.nih.gov/learn-about-eye-health/eye-conditions-and...
My cataract surgery, of March 15th, could not have gone better.
I took this shot of Sole the next day without realizing how much my right pupil looked like his right pupil. Mine has gone back to normal size. Sole's, however, remains irregular and BIG as it shows here..
I think Billy is worth his weight in gold after adding up all his vet bills:) He is a 'genetic disaster' as my daughter describes his ailments. He is diabetic and developed cataracts and became blind. He was blind for about 6 months before he had the cataracts removed. He can see, but is adjusting to seeing again. Rewiring his brain. Before the cone, his eyes were healing fine. After a vet's visit he returned home and tore his stitches. So he had to go get restitched and now wears the cone until he is healed. I think he loves his conehead. When he eats it creates a barrier around his bowl so the other dogs cannot get it. He also seems to love swaying his head side to side and hitting me in the legs to get attention. The plan is to have him go to Seattle to live with my daughter. They miss each other. The main reason of getting his sight restored was so he could adjust to new surroundings. Billy has been moving the cone so that the seam is on the side and he can lay his eye on it and rub it. My daughter will be home in March to take him back to Washington. He will love being with her again and getting much more attention.
Arriving into Dublin Airport today as 'ORBIS 1' ahead of tours of the aircraft from 2nd-5th March.
Orbis last visited ten years ago back in 2007, the purpose of the visit is to raise awareness and funds to allow them to continue their work in the developing world.
This MD-10 aircraft is a very unique type as it was specially converted to make it possible to give sight saving care to isolated communities around the world.
Dublin Airport, February 28th 2017..
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Arriving into Dublin Airport as 'ORBIS 1' ahead of tours of the aircraft from 2nd-5th March.
Orbis last visited ten years ago back in 2007, the purpose of the visit is to raise awareness and funds to allow them to continue their work in the developing world.
This MD-10 aircraft is a very unique type as it was specially converted to make it possible to give sight saving care to isolated communities around the world.
Dublin Airport, February 28th 2017..
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Seen here parked on the West Apron at Dublin Airport today after arriving as 'ORBIS 1' ahead of tours of the aircraft from 2nd-5th March.
Orbis last visited ten years ago back in 2007, the purpose of the visit is to raise awareness and funds to allow them to continue their work in the developing world.
This MD-10 aircraft is a very unique type as it was specially converted to make it possible to give sight saving care to isolated communities around the world.
Dublin Airport, February 28th 2017..
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Seen here parked on the West Apron at Dublin Airport today after arriving as 'ORBIS 1' ahead of tours of the aircraft from 2nd-5th March.
Orbis last visited ten years ago back in 2007, the purpose of the visit is to raise awareness and funds to allow them to continue their work in the developing world.
This MD-10 aircraft is a very unique type as it was specially converted to make it possible to give sight saving care to isolated communities around the world.
Dublin Airport, February 28th 2017..
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self-portrait: my wife & me on the beach (Mijn vrouw had twee oogoperaties, ik trek mijn gitaar door het zand) - my wife had two eye surgeries, I'm pulling my guitar through the sand...
Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Alternate Title(s):
Eye surgery
Publication:
Bethesda, MD : U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Health & Human Services, [2010]
Language(s):
French
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Rheumatic Diseases -- therapy
Constriction
Regional Blood Flow
Strabismus -- surgery
Genre(s):
Book Illustrations,
Pictorial Works
Abstract:
Illustration of two open books. Top book shows glass tubes and accompanying pumps (invented by V.T. Junod) designed to constrict the blood flow to the arms and legs as a cure for rheumatism. Facing page shows text in French. Bottom book illustration shows methods of operating on crossed eyes and excessive squinting. Traité, vol. 6, pl. 28, vol. 7, pl. D.
Related Title(s):
Hidden treasure and Is part of: Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme; See related catalog record: 61020970R
Extent:
1 online resource (1 image)
NLM Unique ID:
101596985
NLM Image ID:
A033102
Permanent Link:
Fun with Fin. OK, I was bored and decided to do some photo-shop eye surgery on "the Fin" - he can now see through two foot concrete walls. Have a good one everyone.
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A glass ampul containing virgin silk; an extremely fine ophthalmic suture material consisting of two to seven natural silk filaments bonded together by sericin, a natural adhesive. This ampul is dated 28-01-1964. The silk was held in the ampul to protect it from air and contaminants. To get to the silk, you had to snap of the neck of the ampul.
All I know is that I was innocently sitting on the couch this afternoon, having just cleaned my camera lens. I was eyeballing absentmindedly through the viewfinder, and I aimed the camera toward the television, which was on and showing a set of commercials between shows.
The ad shows a tight macro shot of an eyeball that appears to be undergoing some sort of surgical procedure. I had the TV volume muted so I have no aural record of what the commercial ad might have been for, but based only on the little bits of text across the bottom of the screen, there's a ball scheduled for March 22 at the local eye bank.
I experienced a number of responses to the images thrown at me during commercial breaks between shows.
* Ew. I've cleaned up the barf of my friends, my family, my child and my self. I can totally handle the nastiest diaper with nary the flip of my stomach's contents. But the close-up here (ON A TELEVISION AD, no less) reminds me just a teensy tinsy too much of A Clockwork Orange (which, btw, has THEE best soundtrack EVER. Once you listen to it you'll wanna marry a lighthouse keeper too, trust you me. But I digress, let's bring it back around, shall we? Yes, lets.). The movie itself was thematically disturbing. You know what I'm talking about ... yeah, that eyeball scene? Mmmmhmm, that.
I am offended that it TAKES such an image to get the attention of John Q. and Jane K. Public.
I am pissed off at my country's media who would rather not have to work themselves into anything remotely resembling a mental sweat, the media who will obligingly pop right in for the cheap and easy buck... viagra ads, anyone?
I'm troubled by the fact that the eye bank might be having such a depository decline that they're throwing macro images of eyeballs onto my tv in hopes that just one more person will finally pull out a goddamned pen to sign the donor card on the back of their state ID or drivers license. Is it REALLY that hard to do? Have we actually driven these people into nauseatingly graphic bare ads to shock us into paying attention?
It started with those medication commercials a few years ago (are you depressed? are you having hot flashes? Does some part of your anatomy itch? Are you pissing off your spouse with that ridiculous twitch you convulse in while asleep?) and has exploded into macro images of eye surgery to get public attention refocused (!) on the continuing critical need for organ donors.
* Between the bursts of anger, outrage and heebie-jeebies, I was also reminded of the numerous dissections I did when I was younger, the earliest of which was 7th grade, when I dissected my first cow eye. It was a nasty procedure for a teenager (even though I wasn't particular faint of heart nor a shrieker kind'v gal), but I can still remember the sense of breathless awe I felt at putting the pieces -like, the ACTUAL pieces- together and being transfixed at the process of how we _see_. Such a gift.
Just not when I'm not expecting it, mid-afternoon on network television.
01-30-09 - I had these tools in my eye today. It was quite unpleasant.
Basically, I had to have minor surgery on my left eyelid to correct a chalazion that appeared a few months ago and stubbornly refused to leave.
I get all the fun.
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It turns out cataracts can occur at any age. My vision wasn't severely affected but now is a good time for me to have the cataracts corrected. I'll have the other eye done in a couple of weeks. Drops in the eye dilate the pupil prior to surgery.
Today I had surgery on my left eye to remove a small, strange piece of skin on my tear duct. All went well. Check out the pupils, though. The doc said this would happen. Funny.
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French army medics remove shrapnel from an Afghan boy's injured foot, in the Nato hospital at Kabul airport, Afghanistan.
The boy, Najibullah, was injured by shrapnel from a Taliban rocket which killed his brother as they cycled to a polling station in Lashkar Gah, Helmand, on August 20.
The shrapnel puctured also his left eye and without surgery he will go blind.
French army surgeon Bernard Swalduz (right) operates on an Afghan boy's injured eye, in the Nato hospital at Kabul airport, Afghanistan.
The boy, Najibullah, was injured by shrapnel from a Taliban rocket which killed his brother as they cycled to a polling station in Lashkar Gah, Helmand, on August 20.
The shrapnel puctured his left eye and without surgery he will go blind.
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French army surgeon Bernard Swalduz (centre)operates on an Afghan boy's injured eye, in the Nato hospital at Kabul airport, Afghanistan.
The boy, Najibullah, was injured by shrapnel from a Taliban rocket which killed his brother as they cycled to a polling station in Lashkar Gah, Helmand, on August 20.
The shrapnel puctured his left eye and without surgery he will go blind.
As a surgeon I know first hand that a big part of surgery is sitting around waiting for things to get started.
French army surgeon Bernard Swalduz (centre) operates on an Afghan boy's injured eye, in the Nato hospital at Kabul airport, Afghanistan.
The boy, Najibullah, was injured by shrapnel from a Taliban rocket which killed his brother as they cycled to a polling station in Lashkar Gah, Helmand, on August 20.
The shrapnel puctured his left eye and without surgery he will go blind.
“I run a software company in India. I am here to see an old friend of mine, who is now a neuroscientist, studying how the brain learns to see. And he does humanitarian work with Indian children. But in the process I also met a lot of other amazing and interesting people. One has performed thousands of free eye surgeries in India. Another one supports 30 different organizations, such as one that tries to prevent the cruelty against dancing bears.”
*I didn’t ask, and he didn’t tell me the name of his friend at MIT, but after a quick Google search this came up. I think such work always deserves more exposure.
www.ted.com/talks/pawan_sinha_on_how_brains_learn_to_see....
French army surgeon Bernard Swalduz (right) prepares to operate on an Afghan boy's injured eye, in the Nato hospital at Kabul airport, Afghanistan.
The boy, Najibullah, was injured by shrapnel from a Taliban rocket which killed his brother as they cycled to a polling station in Lashkar Gah, Helmand, on August 20.
The shrapnel puctured his left eye and without surgery he will go blind.
The phoropter is one of the main instruments used during the eye exam: "Is this better . . . . or is this better?"