Monday, August 3, 2009

TRIPLE SURGERY GOES WELL

On Wednesday, July 29, I had my third cornea transplant which included two other procedures at the same time. The Release I signed described the operations as: CORNEAL TRANSPLANT LAMELLAR RIGHT EYE (DR. IUORNO), (COMBO) VITRECTOMY (DR. TABASSIAN), GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE TUBE RIGHT EYE (DR. McCRAFT).

Apparently, it is not a usual occurrence to have three surgeons participate in the same surgery. All the attendants in Pre-Op made a big deal of it – “You’re really getting the royal treatment!” “You’re having everything done today!” “Everybody’s working on you today!”

The procedure went according to that described in my previous article telling about the planned surgery. It took about four hours plus recovery. Unfortunately, after all this I still will not have any sight in my right eye, but I knew that all along.

Ken did a great job of taking care of me following the surgery. After a few days recuperating, I’m doing fine now. I just hope the transplant will last this time.

Thanks to all of you for your good wishes and prayers.

2 comments:

DDonald said...

Welcome back Faye. Glad to hear that all went well and as planned and that you're up and around and getting things back to normal. Don't forget to come back soon and catch up on our Floridapicklers blog. Take it easy, have fun, see you this winter.
Rich and Donna

Mark and Chris said...

We are all very happy to hear your surgery went well. One more week in Alaska and then we start heading south. Take care.