My every title might leave you with a dilemma as to what might be the title of my article. You would be exposed better to it once you have gone through it.
Vision! Far most the. Best gift God has given the living creatures on planet earth. But not all are blessed with this gift. Some are blind from the time they started breathing, some are unfortunate to see their Bright life for some years and have darkness for the rest of their life. All due to one omen that took place.
Let me get straight to you about this experience of mine. It is a catastrophe that took place in my granny's life. She just went for her routine eye check,where she was detected with a cataract of 50% of the left eye. The doctor suggested her to go under the knife. Being a diabetic and hypertensive woman, she decided to abate it. But I dint want her to regret the feeling of not seeing this beautiful world clearly. Finally with our boosting,she decided to go for it. Fortunately her ECG and Blood sugar made her fit for the surgery.
So, there it was the day of 26/11, a Wednesday. All such weird names leaving a dark trace. But I did want something to be good on this day. I and my uncle accompanied her to the hospital. Being inquisitive about the whole surgery scenario,I took the doctor's consent for a glimpse of it. As being a 2 nd year mbbs student, he was obliged to teach me the procedure.
He had told to put few drops of mydriatics, so that he could easily operate the dilated pupil. He made use of an instrument called psychoemulsion pump which had 2 ends. One end called as the irrigation and other end as aspiration pump. He made a 3 mm incision but kept the cornea intact.
The cataract appeared like a greenish yellow ball covering the lens. He broke the nucleus of the cataract anf divided it into 2 halves. Smaller the part easier to suck it out is what he said. Slowly and steadily he cleared it all. Then cleaned the complete cortex with what he called as a viscous fluid. His main task was to insert a new lens. My granny was a bit aware of his movements, as she was just locally anaesthesized.
The lens was 6mm and the inserting object was 2mm. He inserted one end of the loop and successfully managed even the other end .He adjusted the lens perfectly and again pumped his irrigation and aspiration pumps. The surgery lasted for about 30 minutes and was a fruitful one. He applied two drops of meiotics and THE OBSTACLE OF OPACITY was cleared once and for all.
I consider myself lucky to be a medico and get this experience as the vision surgery would give me a vision to see my future !
