Tomorrow I shall be having my second corneal transplant. By 'second' I mean I'm having my second eye treated. These grafts are to deal with the effects of advanced keratoconus. This blog will be a diary of events, of stages through treatment and recovery. I hope it may be of interest to some others, facing similar surgery.
The first graft was done in 2002. I wrote a diary about the first graft. That's publically available on my 'keratoconus' web page: http://www.coventry.ac.uk/ec/~lisa/kerato.htm I'll use this blog this time.
My dad tells me that it must be better this time 'since I know what to expect'. But how wrong he is. It wasnt a good experience but the outcome is that my vision is vastly improved in that eye but it has taken a very long time and a lot of frustration in getting this far.
I do know I need to go ahead with this second graft: contact lens comfort in that eye is getting problematic; air bubbles are a frequent problem and the lens needs re-inserting several times each day. So I don't realistically have a choice. At 8 am tomorrow I'll turn up to the hospital for surgery.
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