"Did you ever figure out how the eye got the way it was/is?"
Nope. The doc found the little trauma spot on the cornea and reckoned I must have got a bit of grit or something into the eye, gone by the time he got there. But I've had grit in my eyes lots of times and it's never felt the way this did. A few months ago in the car a little ember blew off one of Pam's cigarettes into my eye and even that, though it hurt like absolute hell for a while, didn't feel like this did -- as if there were something caustic in there. I still wonder if a speck of the wasabi from the night before might somehow have lodged in my beard and then been transferred to my eye during my general sleep morning face- and eye-rubbing. Who knows?
The angiogram's unpleasant and a bit freaking-out, but really the most painful part is when the nurses take two or three rootles around with the needle to try to find one of my elusive veins for the IV port. I gather the stenting hurts little more, if at all, than the angiogramming. The carotid op, if they decide they need to do it, I imagine will be altogether less jolly.
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"Did you ever figure out how the eye got the way it was/is?"
Nope. The doc found the little trauma spot on the cornea and reckoned I must have got a bit of grit or something into the eye, gone by the time he got there. But I've had grit in my eyes lots of times and it's never felt the way this did. A few months ago in the car a little ember blew off one of Pam's cigarettes into my eye and even that, though it hurt like absolute hell for a while, didn't feel like this did -- as if there were something caustic in there. I still wonder if a speck of the wasabi from the night before might somehow have lodged in my beard and then been transferred to my eye during my general sleep morning face- and eye-rubbing. Who knows?
The angiogram's unpleasant and a bit freaking-out, but really the most painful part is when the nurses take two or three rootles around with the needle to try to find one of my elusive veins for the IV port. I gather the stenting hurts little more, if at all, than the angiogramming. The carotid op, if they decide they need to do it, I imagine will be altogether less jolly.