Quite interesting to accompany a friend as she went and had surgery with the same doctor I had down at the Mayo Clinc in Rochester this past week.
Very nice, I must say to NOT be the patient! My friend did great. But the doctor did even better. He hit a home run! Amazing! He put an adjustable suture, on EACH eye. But when he went to adjust them about 5 or 6 hrs later, they were pretty much 'spot on' , no double! So he just had to tie the sutures off and clip them. Amazing!
Immediate success! Very cool to see such results!
Also, Very interesting to see them do the adjustable sutures after having had them done to myself 4 different times. I concluded after seeing it all, it's not so much the act of surgery that is amazing, it is all about getting the math correct and knowing where to land those crazy muscles on the eye ball in the first place. As the surgeon said, " the adjustable suture gives you the ability to be as aggressive as you need to be" meaning a surgeon can fine tune and get it exactly right all because when the patient is awake they, by way of feed back and tests the dr does while adjusting the sutures, can make sure the muscles are exactly where they need to be.
I crudely would compare it to adjusting your headlights in your car... You would put your new headlights in, then sit in the drivers seat and see if it's correct, get out adjust them if need be etc.
Very educational this week was.
I'm gaining even greater appreciation for this science. So fun to watch someone do this, plus, all the while he was teaching others the whole time. That was pretty neat too... So interesting to come this full circle and now be able to see someone else go through it. Another eye miracle -- Poof!
gw
Very nice, I must say to NOT be the patient! My friend did great. But the doctor did even better. He hit a home run! Amazing! He put an adjustable suture, on EACH eye. But when he went to adjust them about 5 or 6 hrs later, they were pretty much 'spot on' , no double! So he just had to tie the sutures off and clip them. Amazing!
Immediate success! Very cool to see such results!
Also, Very interesting to see them do the adjustable sutures after having had them done to myself 4 different times. I concluded after seeing it all, it's not so much the act of surgery that is amazing, it is all about getting the math correct and knowing where to land those crazy muscles on the eye ball in the first place. As the surgeon said, " the adjustable suture gives you the ability to be as aggressive as you need to be" meaning a surgeon can fine tune and get it exactly right all because when the patient is awake they, by way of feed back and tests the dr does while adjusting the sutures, can make sure the muscles are exactly where they need to be.
I crudely would compare it to adjusting your headlights in your car... You would put your new headlights in, then sit in the drivers seat and see if it's correct, get out adjust them if need be etc.
Very educational this week was.
I'm gaining even greater appreciation for this science. So fun to watch someone do this, plus, all the while he was teaching others the whole time. That was pretty neat too... So interesting to come this full circle and now be able to see someone else go through it. Another eye miracle -- Poof!
gw
