More eye appointments
Yesterday we hand another visit to Stoke Mandaville hospital for the consultant to take a look at Anita’s squint. Her right eye has turned inwards and it’s now a question of if they can do anything to straighten it. She has had squint surgery on that same eye long before she sustained the brain injury so the already weakened muscles must have succumbed again.
The consultant told us that any surgery to straighten the eye would be only for cosmetic reasons. It would not produce the improvements to her vision that I was hoping for. I guess all that has happened will have affected her sight. They decided they needed to be cautious about further surgery because the left and right muscles had already been operated on. Apparently they can operate on the up and down muscles which will still help move her eye straighter. The only problem is that an operation could damage further blood vessels. They need to get the information about her previous operation from the other hospital and measure the eye again in a few months to see if there are changes to the position.
One thing that amazes me is that if we hadn’t mentioned the previous op they would never have known about it. Having spent time around brain injured patients many are unable to remember things so it makes me wonder how vulnerable they are in these situations. Surely in this day and age there should be medical records that are instantly accessible so problems like these don’t happen! I have seen this happening time and time again in hospitals.