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My right eye will not be down for breakfast
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<blockquote data-quote="septic_shock" data-source="post: 3413482" data-attributes="member: 5322"><p>Couple of observations regarding the whole process.</p><p></p><p></p><p>1. When I asked the doctor how long the recovery would be, I laughed when he said I could be back to work in a couple of days if I wanted. But he was right. I felt fairly normal after 3 days.</p><p></p><p>2. Once the decision was made: everyone involved seemed to act like eye removal was just a few steps above getting a toe nail clipped. Apparently, eyes are easy to pop out.</p><p></p><p>3. You have to train your brain to learn that the eye is gone. The one thing that has been difficult to deal with is that the plastic silicon conformer that is in the socket and keeping the space open for the prosthetic eye is NOT my eye. I have to place the metal tip of a tube of antibiotics through a hole in the conformer to instill antibiotics. Took me several tries to convince my self that poking a metal tip of anything into the center of my “eye” doesn’t hurt anymore.</p><p></p><p>4.trying to decide on whether to get a “cosmetically correct” prosthesis or something more “radical” can keep a man up at night.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="septic_shock, post: 3413482, member: 5322"] Couple of observations regarding the whole process. 1. When I asked the doctor how long the recovery would be, I laughed when he said I could be back to work in a couple of days if I wanted. But he was right. I felt fairly normal after 3 days. 2. Once the decision was made: everyone involved seemed to act like eye removal was just a few steps above getting a toe nail clipped. Apparently, eyes are easy to pop out. 3. You have to train your brain to learn that the eye is gone. The one thing that has been difficult to deal with is that the plastic silicon conformer that is in the socket and keeping the space open for the prosthetic eye is NOT my eye. I have to place the metal tip of a tube of antibiotics through a hole in the conformer to instill antibiotics. Took me several tries to convince my self that poking a metal tip of anything into the center of my “eye” doesn’t hurt anymore. 4.trying to decide on whether to get a “cosmetically correct” prosthesis or something more “radical” can keep a man up at night. [/QUOTE]
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