Orbital Decompression - Prairie Village, KS

The Graves Eye Disease did a wretched thing to my eyes. I cant even show you the results yet because I am still having surgeries just to get the medical part out of the way which must be done before any cosmetic surgeries. Yeah! Great fun, huh? Not! I had 3 decompression surgeries so far. I will be undergoing another surgery Sept 2.
Dr. Sokol is a gifted surgeon. The communication error was on my part because I was expecting instantaneous results. However patience with healing time is my best friend in my case because of the severity of the Graves eye disease.
After the decompression surgeries, I may need eye muscle surgery to correct the alignment of the eye. Then, what seems like twenty thousand years later...I will get to begin the cosmetic part of it all. Actually twenty thousand years is a bit of a stretch but it does feel like it is taking forever. I heal fast but I am the one that wants to wait a 6 month healing time after each of the set of surgeries I have. Idk, does that sound dumb to wait like that? I know most are in a hurry to change their look but I want to make sure I am healing properly. I will write more soon. Just remember, Dr. Sokol is an extremely talented surgeon and I am very happy he is my surgeon. The results when I publish them will be worth seeing. Right now I do not feel comfortable publishing my photos while I am in the middle of the surgeries, still. I am doing a photo documentation of the progression but have to wait for now before releasing it.

I am awaken the early morning hour experiencing low level pain but not from the eye I just had surgery on. It is my left eye that I am feeling pressure from. There must be a weather change coming bevause whenever there is the pressure in my eyes grows heavy. I am not experiencing the same pressure pain in my right eye, the one I just had surgery on. What a relief it will finally be to escape the mandatory pressure pain inflicted by weather change I experience while dealing with Graves Disease.

I forgot to mention the stitches on my eyelid began to itch. I told my daughter my eyelashes itch. She thought that was different, but it really does feel like the eyelashes itch. I've also noticed some chest congestion that seems to be clearing itself up but I was coughing some today and yesterday. In the picture I am posting you can see my eye is open a little bit. It is weird to wake up with a crusty eye. Yuk, that sounds so disgusting but it is a reality. The ointment I put on my eye in the morning softens the "semi harden ooze" that collects at night while I sleep so I can gently remove it. I am babying my eye and barely touching it except to dab away the leaking substance that builds up occasionally on the lash. Boy talk about jowls going on in the side profile facial view...I hate the way I look but maybe one day I will be all better.