Eye options
Yesterdays visit to Stoke Mandaville hospital offered the chance for Anita to have squint surgery on her eye. This involves tightening muscles behind the eye, it will help her appearance and prevent any double vision problems. On the photograph you can see the muscles on top of the eye. These are at the top and bottom of the eye and also on either side. She has previously had an operation for squint surgery that worked on the muscles either side of the eye. Therefore this time they would have to operate on the ones that are top and bottom to straighten it.
The problem is that every time they operate on each of these muscles it can effect the blood supply to the eye through them. Because Anita will have had all muscles worked on there is a risk that the blood supply to the eye could be affected. This could cause a lack of supply leading to problems, potentially a loss of sight. You can see from the second photograph how much anita’s eye is turned in. It also demonstrates the two previous operations, a gold weight in the eyelid and plastic surgery on the lower lid.