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    Ean Austral Guest

    It only took 35 years

    Gday All,

    I have been battling an eye problem in one of my eye's for the last 3 months, 2 different doctors, blood tests and still not happy with them telling me I had conjunctivitis I seen an optometrist and he refered me to a specialist.

    35 yrs ago I suffered a wound to my right eye which required the back of my eye to have stitches, well after seeing the specialist today I find out that a piece of the stitching has worked its way thru my eye and is now starting to come out the front. My body has been trying to fight it and that's what has been coming out my eye.

    So it only took 35 yrs for it to work its way thru, so its now back to surgery to get it redone. Wonder if the original surgeon is still alive, might see if he will help pay the bill.

    Oh well it could be worse.

    Cheers Ean

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    Must have been some kind of accident to require you to have the "back" of your eye stitched up. Care to enlighten us all

    Medicines pretty amazing these days with what they can fix. Had a mate a few years back, had operations on his eyes, (at different times) to repair them. He wore what we called Coke bottle glasses. After the opps, no glasses.

    Good luck with it Ean.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chops View Post
    Must have been some kind of accident to require you to have the "back" of your eye stitched up. Care to enlighten us all

    Medicines pretty amazing these days with what they can fix. Had a mate a few years back, had operations on his eyes, (at different times) to repair them. He wore what we called Coke bottle glasses. After the opps, no glasses.

    Good luck with it Ean.

    Its called Don't under any circumstances fight someone who has a knife, unless you have a gun.


    The knife = 1 my right eye = 0


    Specialist seems to think its simple enough, only a day procedure these days.


    Cheers Ean

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    Good luck with that, I shudder when anyone mentions eye surgery.

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    Could be worse, many years ago a friend of mine had a Cummins 555 crush his left big toe, and ever since then, even though healed, it was always sore.

    a few years ago, apart from being a bat fastard, diabetes set in and his blood sugar levels were generally all over the shop, usually 2 metformin and 18 units of insulin every day.....

    couple of weeks back, the damage in his toe finally got to the point where the doctors cut the toe and a fair chunk of his foot off.....

    wouldnt ya know it, his diabetes has basically vanished to the point where all he's doing is monitoring his blood sugar levels...

    bastard.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sprint View Post
    Could be worse, many years ago a friend of mine had a Cummins 555 crush his left big toe, and ever since then, even though healed, it was always sore.

    a few years ago, apart from being a bat fastard, diabetes set in and his blood sugar levels were generally all over the shop, usually 2 metformin and 18 units of insulin every day.....

    couple of weeks back, the damage in his toe finally got to the point where the doctors cut the toe and a fair chunk of his foot off.....

    wouldnt ya know it, his diabetes has basically vanished to the point where all he's doing is monitoring his blood sugar levels...

    bastard.....

    Im certainly not complaining, there are people far worse off than me.


    Well maybe that its going to put me out of pocket, but I would go without other things than risk my health so all good.


    Of all the things I thought may be wrong with my eye , the old stitching coming thru was the last thing I expected to hear. If I don't need to see anyone for another 35 years then I will be happy.


    Cheers Ean

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    Quite a few years ago I had a stress attack that made me bleed into one of my eyes,,While it eventually cleared up the worst part of the whole thing was the damn flash photos the surgeon took of the inside of my eye!
    I hope the techniques improved Ean!




    I do have a really cool pic to remember it by though,,,,
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift View Post
    Quite a few years ago I had a stress attack that made me bleed into one of my eyes,,While it eventually cleared up the worst part of the whole thing was the damn flash photos the surgeon took of the inside of my eye!
    I hope the techniques improved Ean!




    I do have a really cool pic to remember it by though,,,,

    Far out Pedro , must have been a serious attack to cause that. I don't think the lights etc they shine in your eyes has changed, they didn't seem to be any better yesterday than they were 35 years ago from what I remember.


    Hope whatever was causing your stress is no longer a part of your life.


    Cheers Ean

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    Hope it all goes well Ean.

    Like the other blokes, eye stuff freaks me out.

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    Ean

    Don't be so critical of the surgeon. The wound obviously needed to be repaired back when, 35 years ago and it needed sutures . There are reasons why non-absorbing sutures are used, usually because the particular wound needed to be held together longer than absorbing sutures would last. In most cases the non-absorbing suture becomes encapsulated and remains in place for life.

    In your case, and likely because it was the eye, an organ filled with two fluids, the suture has migrated.

    That's life.

    The good thing with opthalmic surgery is that you get to watch!

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