Just got back from the hospital where I've had the epithelium of my right cornea removed.
I have been suffering for almost 2 years now from recurrent corneal erosion - where a bit of damage to the front middle of my eye has been healing partially and then getting ripped off every so often (up to once a day).
After much shenanigans, I was just on the table this morning, where they used an alcohol solution and mechanical scr@ping to remove the top layer of the eye, then they put a bandage lens (no-optical-power contact lens) over the eye to allow the new cells to grow all at the same time.
And now the anaesthetic eye drops are wearing off.
Well, I had imagined how it might be, and told myself it wouldn't be like that. Unfortunately, it was exactly how I imagined it, and how reading the above you can probably imagine it might be.
Still, if it fixes the problem, it will all be worth it.
Roo
