Well I am back from the eye surgeon/dr. and it was not good news
I am glad dh was with me for sure. I think I had about 6 needles in my eye/tear duct area. It was actually one needle I think but she kept jabbing it alot. After about the 3rd time, she told me to try and hold really still. I asked her if dh could hold my hand. He did. Later he told me I had a vice grip on his hand
She told me that the radiation has scarred and damaged my L tear duct. I need to have surgery and they will create a new channel and put about 6 stints in it that will be taken out in about 6 weeks.
The only good thing is that she is pregnant and going on maternity leave and wont be back to april, so the surgery will be scheduled then. She said I could wait since I have had this for a while but if it gets infected I have to call another surgeon and he will do it. The other guy has operated on people from my church so I know he would be ok too.
She said I will have it in the main hosp. due to my medical history and I should come home that day and it will be about an hour long. I just think I need the time to prepare myself again for this. I hope it does not interfere with my May disney trip or I will wait till June.
I asked her what if I need radiation again, will this happen etc. She said she would treat me pre radiation and operatively put stents in both eyes just to keep them open so the scar tissue wont form.
So there you have it, another adventure on the thyroid cancer coaster.
Oh and I scheduled my blood test for saturday. If that is bad news, I will deal with it but I wont be so happy. But God is always there for me, so this will be a piece of
She said she could do the surgery up the nose with the scope but I told her I didnt think that was such a good idea as the ent surgeon already told me there were problems there that I was born with. I told her she could look at his pictures etc. So she said it would just be better to cut my face
since that is the procedure that has better results.
The one thing that bothered me was that when I went to my regular eye dr. and told her the endo thought something was wrong with my tear duct, all she did was just press against it and said nothing was wrong. This is the dr. who has ovarian cancer and showed me her port etc, so I felt bad and didnt want to press the issue. Then when I went for my endo check up again in July she saw the tears and told me to go to this specialist at the univ. hosp. I told dh, it seems that only the univ. drs. etc. and not our normal ones around here can ever diagnose stuff with us. Its very disheartening. Dh said just go to the univ. next time for anything etc. Dh also had a problem that the reg. gastro guy here said was nothing. The univ. dr. said dh was one of the worst cases he had etc. So lessons learned, follow your gut, your great endo and dont take no for an answer.
. So sorry you were in so much pain. Dont have any insight into all of those symptoms but I am glad you are getting the blood test this week.
