imatestwentbad
12-14-2003, 01:29 PM
I am kinda new to the boards and I was wondering if anyone else had this (or similar) problem.
When I was seven-years-old, I was in a tree with a playmate and we were yelling at boys on the ground. We teased them so one those a stick up in the tree and it went in my right eye. The stick fell back out and the eye stayed in. I really don't remember a whole lot more because I am 25 now and I was drugged to calm down. They covered up both of my eyes so I wouldn't move them together like your brain makes you do. I was told that my eye was flattening and the lens was broken. It had to be removed with surgery or else I would lose the whole eye and have a hole I guess. When I was younger, my mother always told me that another lens could be put into my eye, but only after I am done growing. She has said some lies to me before, so I was a little worried. I have some good insurance now and I am over 21. I have an appt. with the ophthalmologist (sp?) on Jan 6th.
It is not completely blind in my right eye, but it is useless. I can not read anything with it. I can not tell what something is, only it's base color. It looks almost like you opened your eyes underwater. That is the best I can describe to you. I don't drive or do yard work because I am scared to die or lose another eye.
You would think after all those years you would not run into walls anymore. You would get used to the blur on the right side of everything in the "good eye."
I was just wondering if they will be able to even do this. Giving me sight back, is what I mean. Do they do lens transplants even? Where do they get the lens from? I did a google search and only got the lasik and sports injuries info. Wouldn't they have to do more then just lasik? I am willing to fly back up to Baltimore, Maryland to go to Johns Hopkins eye center. Thats where I had lived before TN. Thanks in advance.
Amy
When I was seven-years-old, I was in a tree with a playmate and we were yelling at boys on the ground. We teased them so one those a stick up in the tree and it went in my right eye. The stick fell back out and the eye stayed in. I really don't remember a whole lot more because I am 25 now and I was drugged to calm down. They covered up both of my eyes so I wouldn't move them together like your brain makes you do. I was told that my eye was flattening and the lens was broken. It had to be removed with surgery or else I would lose the whole eye and have a hole I guess. When I was younger, my mother always told me that another lens could be put into my eye, but only after I am done growing. She has said some lies to me before, so I was a little worried. I have some good insurance now and I am over 21. I have an appt. with the ophthalmologist (sp?) on Jan 6th.
It is not completely blind in my right eye, but it is useless. I can not read anything with it. I can not tell what something is, only it's base color. It looks almost like you opened your eyes underwater. That is the best I can describe to you. I don't drive or do yard work because I am scared to die or lose another eye.
You would think after all those years you would not run into walls anymore. You would get used to the blur on the right side of everything in the "good eye."
I was just wondering if they will be able to even do this. Giving me sight back, is what I mean. Do they do lens transplants even? Where do they get the lens from? I did a google search and only got the lasik and sports injuries info. Wouldn't they have to do more then just lasik? I am willing to fly back up to Baltimore, Maryland to go to Johns Hopkins eye center. Thats where I had lived before TN. Thanks in advance.
Amy