Eye Surgery Pics: Warning, kinda icky looking.

My eye is almost completely healed now. It's still a bit sensitive and has some twinges of pain but overall I can't believe how much better it is! It's a bit nuts. I'm so grateful that I could have this done. I'm having my other eye (my left eye) done on July 8th. My right eye should be completely healed by then because it will be a about 9 weeks of recovery by then. I wanted to share some of the pictures not because I think I look very good in them but to show that it is in my opinion a pretty dramatic change. At first I was really regretting doing this but now I'm really happy that I did. Hope I don't gross people out to much!

Last picture of my right eye before surgery. You can see how badly it droops over my pupil.

I don't remember Casey taking these but I was pretty doped up. This is right after I got out of surgery I guess.


A day or so later...Starting to swell a lot more.

A few days after that the bruising is starting to get really dark. It's a little hard to see in this light but my eye is a very icky shade of purple and green.

This picture shows really well where they put the graft. My leg is also looking pretty bad by this time but that picture would be right up my thigh and there are just some things people don't need to see. Hahaha. Anyway, they grafted muscle from my leg to the muscle above my eyebrow because my eyelid was completely paralyzed. To open my eye I've had to work my eyebrow muscle. It was funny at first because I would look really surprised in one eye when I would open it but now it's a lot better.

This was taken after I got my stitches out. I think it was about 2 weeks or so after my surgery.

My latest picture taken a few days ago!!! Look how even and open it looks! It's opening more and more each day and it will be so nice when both are done.


So far there are no plans to do a graft with my left eye. It doesn't have great muscle movement either though so my doc said we would just see what would happen once he gets in there. As of right now if you look strait on you can't see to much of a difference but when I use my face muscles to open my eye more you can really see how uneven they are. The droop in my left eye is minor but it's ability to open isn't great so that's what we are fixing. And we are also preventing it drooping any more in the future.
Fun fun fun!