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Some years ago I was getting ready for a 14-hour flight to Tokyo on business. Sitting on the couch, the retina in my left eye detached. I could have called an eye doctor & get it fixed but the usual procedure involves holding the retina in place with a big gas bubble. The big drawback: you can't fly for a month or more until that gas has dissapated. So I flew to Japan with that condition, hoping for the best when I returned.
Three days into touring chemical plants in Honshu I was in my room in a traditional Japanese hotel & I went blind in that eye. The retina had finally retired. So I didn't mind my boss's invitation to join him in the hotel's warm spring - both nude.
The trip home involved an additional stay over in Chicago. Finally back in NJ, the sight (right eye only) I was greeted by a blizzard. The best eye doctor to fix my retina had closed his office. So I found another who went through the gas bubble bit. Operation #2. Later I had another operation where an artificial lens was surgically installed. Operation #3.
Some years later, as I was leaving my dentist's office, the lens detached & I lost vision in that eye. This was going to need another operation (#4). Problem: they put in the wrong replacement lens.
Recently I went to my regular eye doctor because I thought I had something in that eye because it was irritating me. After a few visits he told me that the lens had detached in the eye & was irritating the cornea (eye wall). He told me that if I didn't get it fixed there would be a bad chance of an infection in that eye. He referred me to a cornea transplant specialist near the Trenton, NJ, airport.
This doctor (I will IM his name & info to only those who are in desperate need for this procedure). This doc is in the office by himself with a staff of young female nurses etc. . He told me that he performs 20 cornea transplants each week in the Capitol Health opthalmic surgery suite & that there are only 6-9 cornea transplant specialists in the world & that he gets patients from all over the U.S. & worldwide.
The interesting parts of the operation was that had 2 parts: removing the loose old lens & replacing it with a new one of a better design. As an intraocular lens is not medicine, Medicare won't pay for it. It cost me cash $750. The second part involved removing the damaged cornea & replacing it with one donated by a deceased person. So I am now a dead man (or woman) walking. And so far I have regained the near total vision I had lost for years. (Operation #5).
The really neat finale to this was him playing the close-up video he made of the operation. All by himself. Incredible stuff. He said he would make a copy for me if I brought in a USB drive as the file is 5GB. Not for the squeamish.
Three days into touring chemical plants in Honshu I was in my room in a traditional Japanese hotel & I went blind in that eye. The retina had finally retired. So I didn't mind my boss's invitation to join him in the hotel's warm spring - both nude.
The trip home involved an additional stay over in Chicago. Finally back in NJ, the sight (right eye only) I was greeted by a blizzard. The best eye doctor to fix my retina had closed his office. So I found another who went through the gas bubble bit. Operation #2. Later I had another operation where an artificial lens was surgically installed. Operation #3.
Some years later, as I was leaving my dentist's office, the lens detached & I lost vision in that eye. This was going to need another operation (#4). Problem: they put in the wrong replacement lens.
Recently I went to my regular eye doctor because I thought I had something in that eye because it was irritating me. After a few visits he told me that the lens had detached in the eye & was irritating the cornea (eye wall). He told me that if I didn't get it fixed there would be a bad chance of an infection in that eye. He referred me to a cornea transplant specialist near the Trenton, NJ, airport.
This doctor (I will IM his name & info to only those who are in desperate need for this procedure). This doc is in the office by himself with a staff of young female nurses etc. . He told me that he performs 20 cornea transplants each week in the Capitol Health opthalmic surgery suite & that there are only 6-9 cornea transplant specialists in the world & that he gets patients from all over the U.S. & worldwide.
The interesting parts of the operation was that had 2 parts: removing the loose old lens & replacing it with a new one of a better design. As an intraocular lens is not medicine, Medicare won't pay for it. It cost me cash $750. The second part involved removing the damaged cornea & replacing it with one donated by a deceased person. So I am now a dead man (or woman) walking. And so far I have regained the near total vision I had lost for years. (Operation #5).
The really neat finale to this was him playing the close-up video he made of the operation. All by himself. Incredible stuff. He said he would make a copy for me if I brought in a USB drive as the file is 5GB. Not for the squeamish.