I need a vitrectomy

June 5th, 2009 at 22:35 · Filed Under Days in My Life, Medical · 10 Comments 

This morning I checked in to the clinic and the doctor who replaced my doctor told me that there was a large tear and the water (vitreous fluid) had sipped into the tear. Retina detachment was forming and was progressive. He insisted me to seek expert advice from a VR (Vitreo Retina) specialist in Kuala Lumpur.

Upon hearing his comment, what I feared most had stricken down my spine. It was inevitable finally. What has to come, has come. I had to accept the reality. My mood swung 180 degrees.

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Clearer vision

June 3rd, 2009 at 17:44 · Filed Under Days in My Life, Medical · Comment 

Today, my left vision has become very much clearer comparing to couple of days ago. This morning, I went to the clinic for a follow up and the doctor’s feedback was encouraging and calming. Everything is stabilizing and nothing to worry about but still more bed rest until I see his retina associate on next Monday after his holiday.

We went home happily and had a good relieve. LA and I had been in and out of the clinic for almost three weeks since I had PVD (Posterior Vitreous Detachment) and retina tear on May 18. I guessed, at least for this moment, nothing to worry about.

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Laser retinopexy

May 20th, 2009 at 11:08 · Filed Under Days in My Life, Medical · Comment 

Monday morning, I saw a sudden influx of floaters at my left eye. My previous experience of retina detachment on my right eye immediately prompted me that I was in an emergency. Without hesitating, I called my doctor for his advice. He told me to lie down and not to move around so that the condition would not progress too fast. It was late morning and was too late to go to his clinic in Kuala Lumpur. His clinic closes at 1PM.

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Suspecting internal bleeding

September 21st, 2006 at 17:59 · Filed Under Days in My Life, Family, Medical · Comment 

When I woke up this morning, I noticed a veil or curtain vision on my right eye. The image on my right eye is a little darker and yellowish. We were rushing to bring 3 dinos to the clinics for health screening.

On the way out, I suddenly noticed some dark floaters with smeared tailed. I began to worry. This seemed like some kind of hemorrhaging in the eye ball. After my children health examination, I quickly check the Internet and began to worry. I still had no clue what had happened to my eye.

I immediately called up an eye specialist in town and scheduled an urgent appointment. When I was at the clinic at 1430, and waited for almost half hour, the doctor finally examined my eye. He could not see much until he dilated my eyes. Again, it took another half hour to dilate my eye.

The doctor confirmed that I was having retinal tear and the tear was running across one of the blood vessel. He suggested to perform Laser 532 surgery.

Laser 532 is a green doubled frequency YAG laser with 532 nm wavelength. It is used to seal off retinal tear by creating a scar to prevent further progression.

The laser was very bright and I could hardly open both eye (my left eye was closed due to the reflex of the right eye). The doctor had to increased the power of the laser so that it could penetrate the blood clog. When he did that, I felt pain at each pulses of the laser firing. He could not stand the complaining of my pain and he stopped the surgery and scheduled for the next appointment on next coming Monday.

Because my eye was dilated, I could not drive. I called LA to arrange with my cousin BS give her a lift to the clinic. She drove me home.

When reached home, I immediately Googled “retinal tear”. OMG! This was serious. My fear began to set in after reading about retinal tear and retinal detachment and the surgery procedures to repair the retinal.

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