jenco
05-12-2010, 05:43 PM
Hi, I'm hoping to maybe find some answers here seeing as how I'm not sure how my parents would feel about this. Let me give you some background information because it kind of matters haha
I'm 18 at the moment and I turn 19 in two months. When I was 5, I was playing around with a friend of mine and we were throwing mulch at each other and a piece of mulch just so happened to get stuck in my eye. My mother took me to the hospital and a splinter penetrated the 4 layers of my cornea and scratched the 5th. I'm very lucky to have my eye still intact but I had LASIK eye surgery a year after the incident and my eye was fine. They were both pretty aligned and I couldn't see out of my right eye and had double vision but that was a little concern at the time. But when I was 10, I had a stroke sympathetic to my Right side. My right eye was also the eye that was effected by the mulch. The muscle correction in my right eye was lost and now I've been living with a lazy eye for 9 years and it has really affected my ability to have a relationship as well as friendships. The complications with the stroke have been cleared up through PT, almost. The only thing is the eye.
So what I'm asking is, is it advisable to get another LASIK eye surgery even after the one I had years ago? And if so, would the complications be worse than they were the first time? If not, are there any other surgeries I can have in order to correct this lazy eye issue?
Thank you so much!
I'm 18 at the moment and I turn 19 in two months. When I was 5, I was playing around with a friend of mine and we were throwing mulch at each other and a piece of mulch just so happened to get stuck in my eye. My mother took me to the hospital and a splinter penetrated the 4 layers of my cornea and scratched the 5th. I'm very lucky to have my eye still intact but I had LASIK eye surgery a year after the incident and my eye was fine. They were both pretty aligned and I couldn't see out of my right eye and had double vision but that was a little concern at the time. But when I was 10, I had a stroke sympathetic to my Right side. My right eye was also the eye that was effected by the mulch. The muscle correction in my right eye was lost and now I've been living with a lazy eye for 9 years and it has really affected my ability to have a relationship as well as friendships. The complications with the stroke have been cleared up through PT, almost. The only thing is the eye.
So what I'm asking is, is it advisable to get another LASIK eye surgery even after the one I had years ago? And if so, would the complications be worse than they were the first time? If not, are there any other surgeries I can have in order to correct this lazy eye issue?
Thank you so much!