Hence - reworking, as my eye is starting to close as the facial muscles cannot keep it properly open. I want to be able to see well, but particularly when I am driving - with both eyes. Fingers crossed this will help immensely.
You are legally allowed to drive with only one eye. I worry too much - I don't think I could bear driving unless I know that I can see those small animals + small humans running into the road before accidentally hitting one.... because I didn't see them coming...
Anyway -
My surgery with both eyes
Under anaesthesia
With an airway tube
Boom Boom
No food after 12.00 the night before - surgery at 10.00...but only happened at 11.30...slightly starving!
All alone. Wondering a lot.
The FH went on a super morning out, to say hello to all those scrumptious #Humans that we miss....
After effects:
Cannot see well for 3 days with antihistamine cream that has to go inside the eye - it can literally drive you crazy...
Horrendous cramps in my right leg [anaesthesia]
Giddiness
Fatigue x 20
Confusion [bad]
REALLY itchy eyes! The stitches started to mend - shriek! Covered in gauze, which does not fall off...
Then? The front room in the #theArtHouse was about to be almost flattened...so we were racing back as fast as possible
But today some of that gauze came off [small attack with fingernails] so the first day that I could walk down to the pub and remain awake for longer than 2 hours was rather jolly. Excellent birthday drink down there!
Tomorrow - back to the RD&E Hospital Exeter
#lossofsensation #aftereffects #anaesthesia #ivline #intravenoustherapy #chloramphenicol
#excitinglife #keeplearningeveryday
#northern #mindsetmatters
#keeplearningeveryday
#anuerism #score1coma #subarachnoidhaemorrhage
#invisibleillness #invisibledisabilities #consciousness
#fuckbrainaneurysm #brainaneurysmsurvivor
#IAmMe #mentalhealthstigma #riskfactors #aphasia #titanium #craniotomy #communicationiskey #tribe #womeninart #1in50
My surgery with both eyes
Under anaesthesia
With an airway tube
Boom Boom
No food after 12.00 the night before - surgery at 10.00...but only happened at 11.30...slightly starving!
All alone. Wondering a lot.
The FH went on a super morning out, to say hello to all those scrumptious #Humans that we miss....
After effects:
Cannot see well for 3 days with antihistamine cream that has to go inside the eye - it can literally drive you crazy...
Horrendous cramps in my right leg [anaesthesia]
Giddiness
Fatigue x 20
Confusion [bad]
REALLY itchy eyes! The stitches started to mend - shriek! Covered in gauze, which does not fall off...
Then? The front room in the #theArtHouse was about to be almost flattened...so we were racing back as fast as possible
But today some of that gauze came off [small attack with fingernails] so the first day that I could walk down to the pub and remain awake for longer than 2 hours was rather jolly. Excellent birthday drink down there!
Tomorrow - back to the RD&E Hospital Exeter
#lossofsensation #aftereffects #anaesthesia #ivline #intravenoustherapy #chloramphenicol
#excitinglife #keeplearningeveryday
#northern #mindsetmatters
#keeplearningeveryday
#anuerism #score1coma #subarachnoidhaemorrhage
#invisibleillness #invisibledisabilities #consciousness
#fuckbrainaneurysm #brainaneurysmsurvivor
#IAmMe #mentalhealthstigma #riskfactors #aphasia #titanium #craniotomy #communicationiskey #tribe #womeninart #1in50
