Since I entered university my life took a great turn. The changes in my routine were almost daily. I devoted myself to studying totally and suddenly I began to notice some changes that scared me a little. Headaches, itchy eyes, etc; From that moment I knew that I had to go to a specialist, what I did not know was what came next.
Evaluación exhaustiva y estudios especializados empezaron a estar a la orden del día. Luego de varias consultas y llegar a una clínica especialista en afecciones de la cornea, me dieron un diagnóstico preciso: KERATOCONO AVANZADO. Con qué se come eso? Fue lo único que me pregunté.
Comprehensive evaluation and specialized studies began to be the order of the day. After several consultations and arriving at a specialist clinic in corneal conditions, I was given an accurate diagnosis: ADVANCED KERATOCONO. How do you eat that with? It was the only thing I asked myself.
El keratocono es una condición que empieza a padecer la cornea y que va alterando su forma curva por una forma puntiaguda que va afectando la visión progresiva y agresivamente. La solución inmediata era una cirugía de implante de anillos intraestromales y bueno sin pensarlo mucho se planificó.
Keratoconus is a condition that begins to suffer from the cornea and that changes its curved shape into a pointed shape that progressively and aggressively affects vision. The immediate solution was an intrastromal ring implant surgery and well without much thought was planned.
La primera cirugía fue completamente traumática. Estar bajo sedantes pero con plena consciencia y recibiendo órdenes como: mira hacia la derecha, ahora a la izquierda, luego hacia arriba, etc; que tu cerebro adormecido intenta cumplir, es absolutamente una tortura consentida como paciente que no leyó las letras pequeñas de la autorización previa a la entrada al quirófano.
The first surgery was completely traumatic. Being under sedatives but with full consciousness and receiving orders such as: look to the right, now to the left, then up, etc; that your sleepy brain tries to accomplish, it is absolutely a consensual torture as a patient who did not read the fine print of the authorization prior to entering the operating room.
En la segunda y las dos siguientes (tercera y cuarta) me acompañó el terror de saber lo que venía, por la sedación, por estar consciente y por el dolor posterior y casi inmediato al salir de la sala de recuperación, pero no tenía otra opción. Créanme que enfrenté todos mis miedos en esas cuatro oportunidades.
In the second and the next two (third and fourth) I was accompanied by the terror of knowing what was coming, from the sedation, from being conscious and from the subsequent and almost immediate pain when leaving the recovery room, but I had no other option . Believe me, I faced all my fears on those four occasions.
Aquí estoy once años después (de la primera cirugía y nueve después de la última) con mejor visión pero aún con lentes y esperando poder costear el último avance en contactología que promete frenar esta enfermedad visual y a su vez permitirme la liberación de los lentes de montura.
Here I am eleven years later (from the first surgery and nine after the last) with better vision but still wearing glasses and waiting to be able to pay for the latest advance in contactology that promises to stop this visual disease and at the same time allow me the release of the frame lenses.