Why eyeballs just DON'T FALL OUT...

[oblongmelon]

Ok so Mr.Melon is scheduled for his surgery on September 19th to fix the damage to his eye left over from his health situation last november..today we had to take him for his LAST pre-op visit to the pediatric neurological surgeon(yes-the specialist wanted him to see the pediatric neurological surgeon due to the delicate vessels that have to be re-constructed or something)..anyway..while we were in the office, he had to numb up the eyeball so he could check the muscle pull on the one side of the eye that is worst affected..he put these orange drops in, then stuck a q-tip under his eye lid and let it HANG there..after about 3 minutes, he took a huge tweezery looking object and literally stretched the eyeball as far out of the socket as he could by grabbing it on either side and giving a good tug..Mr.Melon didn't feel a thing-or so he said..I, on the other hand sat there gagging..even after all my years of nursing I never saw anything so bizzare like this..I have never seen an eye bleed, but this one did..Now I know when the eye bank people used to come for donor eyes, there would be SOME blood, but hub's eye was literally oooozing blood from both sides surrounding the iris...*gag*..anyway..to fix the two muscles on the one side of the eye, they must cut away the top and bottom muscles and move them to an angle on the side of the eye, then they are going to inject botox into the opposite side of the eye to temporarily deaden that side of the eye for three months, after three months, the new muscle placement should cause the eye to rotate to a wierd position, at which time they are going to go in and put a slipnot in the muscle on the opposite side..so he looses some vision, but at least he wont look like an inbred west virginian..I'll see if they can give me some snapshots after surgery, cause I know you'd love to see them...and make sure if you are ever having your eyeball pulled out, it's a doctor who does it..OUCH.

[irwin]

Ok. I, for one, am officially grossed out.

[DankNstickY]

Originally posted by oblongmelon
but at least he wont look like an inbred west virginian..

lmao :heh:

all that eye stretchin stuff is funny in a weird way too. its not hilarious or anything, but it just sounds like somethin u'd see in some super greousom (sp?) movie or something.

oh well... hope everything works out fine.

[tweeteresa]

:puke:

hope everything goes well!

[Memo]

wow, should have taken some pics for rotten or consumption junctions. :dodgy:

[hang10wannabe]

sounds like fun :dodgy:

id rather goto the dentist than have my eye tweaked with... but hey... what must be done must be done right? ;) good luck and hope nothing goes wrong

[revil]

your description had the soon-to-be evil dictator squirming.

yes revil always talk about himself in the 3rd person.

[Hiro]

I really couldn't finish reading that because I was so disgusted. :P

[chrissy]

Donnie, my hubby, was born with a very lazy eye and is very blind without glasses. He had corrective surgery to straighten his eyes and obby, your discription sounds VERY familiar!

It was gross! I left work 1/2 day early to pick Donnie up from the doctor's office (it was done on the base in the doc's office!) and Donnie was wide awake and not feeling a thing while the doctor was cutting and reattaching the muscles around his eyes!! :eek:

The nurse sent me back to the room, the door was open and Donnie had his back to me. I took a chair in the hall and the doc noticed me. He started chatting with me like he was walking through a park. Called me in and started discribing what he was doing and pointing things out wanting me too look... I made that mistake once. It was the ONLY time looking at Donnie made me want to hurl! :(

Needless to say, I ended up on the floor with my head between my knees and a nurse helped me back to the chair in the hall. On the way out of the hospital, we sat down in the hallway until I could get into what I call "mommy mode" so I could drive him home.


(Mommy mode is when things happen to people you care about and you snap into a role where you can take care of everything and anything :) no matter how gross.)

[Kim]

OMG! I would have passed right out!

I hope this proceedure goes well, and he doesn't have to have any more eye pulling.

Kim, rethinking nursing school!

[Nija]

Obby... pictures, before, during and after would be appreciated :D (and I'm serious)

Sorry that didn't sound disgusting, it should very intresting tho....

[DankNstickY]

Originally posted by Nija
Obby... pictures, before, during and after would be appreciated :D (and I'm serious)


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