If you’re not too squeamish, enter “squint surgery” into a YouTube search.
I had been
deliberating about whether to ask for local anaesthetic for this procedure to
hopefully fix my double
vision, but one look at a video was enough to convince me that general anaesthetic
is definitely the way to go.
I am still a little
nervous about the possible risks of general anaesthetic, but I need to get this
problem fixed so that I can function normally behind the wheel and in the
office. It didn’t fill me with
confidence when, at my last consultation with my eye surgeon, Mr A, I had to
remind him that I suffer from Parkinson’s and that my medication may impact the
choice of anaesthetic, and that he should probably discuss all this with the anaesthetist
in advance. Meddling with the delicate
chemical balance in the brain is not something to be taken lightly.
Mr A told me the
operation has an 80% chance of improving my eyesight. As I head off to the hospital this morning I
hope that I am not in the 20% – I don’t want to do this more than once.
