So it's been another week, and it has been truly awesome. Exhausting, but awesome. I have a couple pictures from an eye surgery that I sat-in on, and can I honestly say that people who work at hospitals are so nice and eager to educate.
I had the pleasure of watching a cataract extraction that took about two hours. Most of it I was looking into a scope that looked directly into the surface of the eye. They had to extract all of the vitreous humor out of the eye while maintaining the pressure with water. After that, they replaced the fluid with a clear, heavy liquid that would keep the retina from detaching as well as "spot welds" with a laser. They even let me take a bunch of screen shots with the camera that was attached to the scope during surgery.
It was truly enlightening. Our inner eyes are beautiful.
Here are a few of the screen shots:
Cutting away the outer skin of the eye to get to the inside.
Stitching the outer layer of the eye back on.
The tube in the lower right is the fluid they are putting into the eye to replace the vitreous humor. It was a clear, heavy, oily substance. You can also see that they've already put a few stitches in place.
The tube in the upper right is keeping the eye pressurized as they get ready to suck out the vitreous humor. The two studs are holes that they are preparing to put their instruments into.
This surgery was so amazing, I would give anything to get back in there.
More soon!
Mary
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