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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 369194" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Thanks, Terry. Another reason to not rush into reconstructive surgery.</p><p></p><p>The eye problem is spontaneous, probably due to a combination of age and my extreme short-sightedness. As for family history - I'm by far the most short-sighted in my family. My great-aunt was also very short-sighed but I don't think she had this problem or I'm sure I would have heard of it. She had cataracts operated on when she was 95. She was my mothers aunt, died a couple of weeks before my mother did. I have nobody I can ask.</p><p></p><p>I remember my mother telling me about her very short-sighted younger sister who was allegedly going to go blind very young, due to "hardening of the muscles behind the eyes". Although as far as I understand, that is nonsense (and what patients got told back in the 1930s was a long way short of the truth) I'm wondering if she also was having early separation of the vitreous humor in her eyes, as I now realise I was having at age 20. Back then there would have been no laser surgery, nothing they could do about a detaching retina, and the separation of the vitreous humor is often followed by a retinal detachment. My aunt died during WWII at the age of about 25. She was post-op from a routine appendicectomy and got peritonitis - and the only penicillin available then was for the troops. She'd only been married a few months. My mother never got over it.</p><p></p><p>There is nobody left alive in our family in the older generation. I'm the youngest of my generation. </p><p></p><p>I keep wanting to clean my glasses...</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 369194, member: 1991"] Thanks, Terry. Another reason to not rush into reconstructive surgery. The eye problem is spontaneous, probably due to a combination of age and my extreme short-sightedness. As for family history - I'm by far the most short-sighted in my family. My great-aunt was also very short-sighed but I don't think she had this problem or I'm sure I would have heard of it. She had cataracts operated on when she was 95. She was my mothers aunt, died a couple of weeks before my mother did. I have nobody I can ask. I remember my mother telling me about her very short-sighted younger sister who was allegedly going to go blind very young, due to "hardening of the muscles behind the eyes". Although as far as I understand, that is nonsense (and what patients got told back in the 1930s was a long way short of the truth) I'm wondering if she also was having early separation of the vitreous humor in her eyes, as I now realise I was having at age 20. Back then there would have been no laser surgery, nothing they could do about a detaching retina, and the separation of the vitreous humor is often followed by a retinal detachment. My aunt died during WWII at the age of about 25. She was post-op from a routine appendicectomy and got peritonitis - and the only penicillin available then was for the troops. She'd only been married a few months. My mother never got over it. There is nobody left alive in our family in the older generation. I'm the youngest of my generation. I keep wanting to clean my glasses... Marg [/QUOTE]
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