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03-29-2008, 07:03 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Buffalo, NY
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| | | Victrectomy next Thursday
Wish me luck all. Next Thursday I go in for my eye vacuuming. I'm surprisingly calm about it at this point but I'm sure I'll get more worked up the closer Thursday comes.  I think I'll go get an eye patch and play pirate for a week.  |
03-29-2008, 07:07 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
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Originally Posted by peej07  Wish me luck all. Next Thursday I go in for my eye vacuuming. I'm surprisingly calm about it at this point but I'm sure I'll get more worked up the closer Thursday comes. I think I'll go get an eye patch and play pirate for a week. |
Don't worry. They'll give you an eye patch. The only tough part is finding a pirate costume and parrot to match the royal blue  |
03-29-2008, 09:50 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: California
Posts: 1,101
| | HI PJ
Amazing how accepting you get when you have no choice, isn't it? I'll be thinking of you. Remember, it's really nothing to be afraid of these days, they have the entire procedure figured out.
You will be astounded how much simpler it is than you imagined.
I laughed at you saying you would "get a patch" because they will slap one one whether you want it or not. Mine was white and puffy with a hard plastic shield, held on by SUPERTAPE. We are talking tape that would keep the space shuttle on a 747! Bad me. When it really started itching because my eye was watering underneath, I took it off early. No worries. It stuck right back in place with the same tape and the doc was none the wiser
AAArrrrgh! Remember your sword and bandanna, matey! |
03-29-2008, 10:16 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: B.C., Canada
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| | | Good luck! I hope everything goes well for ya!
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03-29-2008, 10:30 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
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| | | I ran out to get some strips and syringes at lunch one day this week. There was a man at the counter wearing a blue patch taped over his eye. Of course I recognized it and struck up a conversation. This man just came from cataract surgery. I didn't know they gave patches for those. He was looking rather distraught at first, but he was smiling when he left. I suppose it helps to know you are not alone. When I went in, there were 22 surgeries scheduled that day. Buddy next to me had a torn retina. I saw a patch in the cafeteria too.
Don't be shy afterwards. Just practice that aaaargh! |
03-29-2008, 01:16 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Manitoba, Canada
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| | | All the best peej! We'll be thinking of you. Let us know how it goes.
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Type 1 since I was 3 (1981) - 26 years now
Pumping as of Sept. 13, 2007 - Paradigm 522 with NovoRapid (Novolog)
(Previously on Levemir and Humalog)
CGMS as of Apr. 2008
Laser treatments (scatter) on both eyes - Jul. 4, 2007-Sept. 12, 2007 |
03-30-2008, 05:27 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Buffalo, NY
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| | | Thanks all, I was up in Toronto this weekend and I was gonna buy a patch with a maple leaf on it. |
03-30-2008, 05:33 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: North Texas
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| | | All my very best wishes to you Peej -- relax with it and I look forward to your comments after it's all over with.
__________________  Type 1 since 1979
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03-30-2008, 07:04 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Tennessee
Posts: 652
| | Good luck! I'm not too sure what this procedure is but apparently other have had it and it's "not so bad"!
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Type 2 - Dx 9/11/03 - A1c 8.3
2/01/08 - A1c 6.3
4/01/08 - A1c 5.9 
7/25/08 - A1c 5.9
Current Meds - Janumet 50/1000 2x daily
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03-31-2008, 06:37 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: NC
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| | Good luck on Thursday and you will be in my thoughts. I'm sure everything will go just fine.
__________________  Rest In Peace Jack- 5/1/08. You may be gone from us but you will never be forgotten. Our love goes with you. Postcard Status as of 9/6/08: 10 of 20. |
03-31-2008, 09:45 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Buffalo, NY
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| | | I just got clearance from my Doc for thursday. I guess I'm all set. |
03-31-2008, 10:20 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Landenberg, PA
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| | Best of luck on the vacuuming. I suspect many will be looking forward to a picture of that patch when all's said & done
Mike
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04-01-2008, 05:56 AM
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| | | Good luck! Please let us know how you made out.
Karen |
04-01-2008, 07:53 AM
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| | | Peej. Draw a pic of what you see now, so you'll have something accurate to compare too. |
04-01-2008, 09:54 AM
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| | I see dead people. John it swirls and moves constantly so it's hard to say. One minute I can see 20/40 and the next 20/100 depending on where the cloud is. |
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