Okay, we were expecting some small bleeders and knew that I was having trouble with some hemorrhaging in the eyes. Let's go into the technician and have a scan completed for more details. Not a big deal. Oh, wait we need to do a IV w/dye to highlight the veins in the eye. Okay 1996 was the last time I had this done and yes I blacked out then.
Ensures everyone that I was over the needle in the arm fear and that I would be fine. I was right. IV was nothing. Sat up to the eye scan placed my chin in the scanner and begin to take the scan with dye running through my veins. One, two, three pictures and oh...the room begins to spin and I begin to sweat. Called time-out and pushed back with my head between my legs, took some deep breaths and felt back in control. Let's get this done the quicker the better. One, two..."Oh Hell" and everything went black. Yup, I passed out for all of about 5 seconds before being rev ivied. Had a sip of coke and finally endured the remainder of the test. Lesson learned. It's not the IV has it is the dye running through the veins that rocks my world.
Photos definitely show the need for some laser treatment. Doctor was hesitant to proceed however, after I had had such a rough time taking the photos. Ah, what the heck what's one poke in the eye more going to do.
First, poke was a shot of numbing agent to numb the entire eye area. Oh, I thought the pressure injected was going to bust my nostril. That was a trip. Next, Laser zaps..there is a bleeder zap zap zap and so forth. Some 3000 plus zaps completed the laser treatment or laser burns and finally one last poke with a Kellogg shot and my one eye was completed.
Let's see 3-4 days of swelling. Woke up on Friday the 13th and open my eye up. Okay all I could do was open the eye up to a small slit due to the swelling. It should be gone in a week or so. At least I wont' have to worry about going blind. Luckily for me I was able to spend Friday the 13th at home resting. Imagine if I had the surgery on the Friday the 13th what could have happened then.
2 comments:
On the bright side only one more eye to go and you're done! All the better vision to see the fish with . . . right?
jeff, i didn't know you were so squimish, I mean you gave your self shots your whole life, I guess it just runs in the genes! Reading your blog make me light headed!
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