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Often wondered what eye operations are like, I suppose you can see some of what they do?
Is the new lens fixed focus?
you can see the overhead light which is intense to begin with, but once they start it's just three faint light spots. You know when the new lens goes in - for a second or two you can see the veins at the back of the eye, then a lot of swirling as he adjusts the lens.
The lens is fixed focus so I opted for good distance vision at the expense of needing reading glasses.
I had a fragment of metal embedded into my lower eyelid that was scratching my eyeball. It had to be surgically removed.
My head was strapped into a piece of torture equipment and I remained awake during the operation.
Two injections under the eye, and two in the eyeball itself. as you are watching the needle come into the eye, the fear was tremendous, but totally unwarranted. I barely felt a thing.
the knife, the swabbing of the blood when covering the eye and the stiches were weird, but also painless.
Thicgs have moved on a bit since the middle ages anaesthetic is just a series of eye drops over an hour with the final strong one going in just before the op - no clamping of the head or anything - just the eyeball which you don't really feel.
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