Not for the squeamish - warning.
Went down yesterday to have my right eye done. All the way through the admissions procedures/protocol there seemed a never-ending stream of people checking and double-checking my name, DoB, doing the right eye etc. Including the consultant who is going to do the surgery. He explains what's going to happen etc even though we met only a few weeks back to Mar 4th for the left eye - but I'm happy with thoroughness. 'We're doing the right eye', he says. 'Yes' says I and he puts the cross over my right eye. "Please sign this consent form' he asks etc.
So after a while I go down to have the local eye block procedure started. The anaesthetists assistant has the consent form, looks at the contents then says to me 'We're doing the left eye..correct?' WTF? Que? "No, the right eye', says I. "Well, the form says left eye" he replies and so it did!! Oooops....teach me to read the form that I'm signing.
Another observation. When I had the left eye done, the anaesthetist had a bit of difficulty getting that long needle round to the back of my eye and needed several goes. Think gristle I guess. TBH I'm not 100% convinced that he did make it all the way round as while the surgery was taking place, I could see light through the left eye although totally blurred. And I could feel sensation starting to return part way through the procedure. Plus the next day, the eye was blood red with leakage (sorry if you're eating).
Anyway, yesterday it was a different anaesthetist and I mentioned in passing the difficulty that his colleague had had with my left eye and so possibly the right eye might be the same (I swear he guffawed in his mind and thought to himself 'what on earth is this patient on about?'). But surprise- surprise, right eye just as troublesome. "Mmmm...I see what you were talking about." Long story short, he waited a bit, let the initial dose of eye block anaesthetic desensitise the eye socket and then came back for another go. He hit the spot bang on, total black out in the right eye (and man, you have NO idea how relieved you feel when, as the anaesthetic starts to wear off you begin to see light again in your eye). Anyway, this morning, no red eye, either. So he's the man, IMO.
Went down yesterday to have my right eye done. All the way through the admissions procedures/protocol there seemed a never-ending stream of people checking and double-checking my name, DoB, doing the right eye etc. Including the consultant who is going to do the surgery. He explains what's going to happen etc even though we met only a few weeks back to Mar 4th for the left eye - but I'm happy with thoroughness. 'We're doing the right eye', he says. 'Yes' says I and he puts the cross over my right eye. "Please sign this consent form' he asks etc.
So after a while I go down to have the local eye block procedure started. The anaesthetists assistant has the consent form, looks at the contents then says to me 'We're doing the left eye..correct?' WTF? Que? "No, the right eye', says I. "Well, the form says left eye" he replies and so it did!! Oooops....teach me to read the form that I'm signing.
Another observation. When I had the left eye done, the anaesthetist had a bit of difficulty getting that long needle round to the back of my eye and needed several goes. Think gristle I guess. TBH I'm not 100% convinced that he did make it all the way round as while the surgery was taking place, I could see light through the left eye although totally blurred. And I could feel sensation starting to return part way through the procedure. Plus the next day, the eye was blood red with leakage (sorry if you're eating).
Anyway, yesterday it was a different anaesthetist and I mentioned in passing the difficulty that his colleague had had with my left eye and so possibly the right eye might be the same (I swear he guffawed in his mind and thought to himself 'what on earth is this patient on about?'). But surprise- surprise, right eye just as troublesome. "Mmmm...I see what you were talking about." Long story short, he waited a bit, let the initial dose of eye block anaesthetic desensitise the eye socket and then came back for another go. He hit the spot bang on, total black out in the right eye (and man, you have NO idea how relieved you feel when, as the anaesthetic starts to wear off you begin to see light again in your eye). Anyway, this morning, no red eye, either. So he's the man, IMO.