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Hi Zoners!
What do you all think about prosthetic eyes/
What are your thoughts and oppinions on the following aspects:
1. Having prosthetic eyes.
2. People's reactions to your prosthetic eye?
3. Embarrassing moments that have occurred and or revolved around your prosthetic eye?
4. Figuring out how to choose, shells, or full prosthetics?
5. Any other discussion and or questions you feel is rellevant to this topic/
Let us know what you think.
Kolby
I had a shell... It wasn't fun. I kept getting pinkeye. When we got rid of the shell, I never got pinkeye again.
I had the eye pop out in third grade. One student still tells all of my teachers "watch out, her eye comes out."
I'm a senior now!
I have a full prosthetic eye in my left eye and a shell in my right. Well hmm, let's see. Only thing I don't like about my eyes is that they'll discharge in public, when I'm in the doctor's office, school, store, whereever, it just doesn't care, it'll just drip down my face. Well I don't mind it dripping around my doctor cause she understands what my condition is, but other places hmm... I feel embarrassed. One day in school a student walked to me and said "Why are you crying?" I said "I'm not crying, my eyes do that sometimes." It looks like I'm crying but I'm not. Then the same student came to me the next day and said "If you're blind and have prosthetic eyes can you cry?" I said, "Can you cry?" And the student said well yeah. So I said just like you cry, I cry. I had another incident in ninth grade where I fell asleep sitting up in my chair, and I fell out the chair in class, and while my head hit the grown, my eye popped out. Ooh boy I was so embarrassed I hoped and prayed the students wouldn't see what happened. Fortunately they didn't, cause I rushed to my eye and hurried to put it back in before I could get up. My aid was worried cause she thought I couldn't get up, cause it took me a good while to get up. She was like Christina, you want me to pull you up? And I said no, I can do it and I managed to do it successfully though it took me a long time. All cause I had to find my eye and put it back in before the students saw it. Well that's all my embarrassing moments, another thing I don't like about my eyes are the infections. I outgrew them now but boy I had them bad grewing up.
I have prosthetics in both eyes, I got them when I was eight. i hated them when I first got them because they felt uncomfortable, but I've gotten used to them and I've gotten to like them. They keep my eyes open and they're a very pretty blue, a similar eye color to the people in my family. Cmitchell, I've found that if you take the prosthetics out at night and clean them regularly they don't discharge as much.
I was born without eyes, and, i hate, prosthetics! Ah well, not much I can do about that one! Hahaha!
But yeah.
To be quite honest, I could care less what people think about my eyes, but I can tell you how I view them.
1. They serve a purpose. They fill two holes in my head that I would be quite imbarrassed to show if I didn't have them, so yeah! I love them in that sense.
2. I hate them,
and 3,
They irritate the crap out of me.
Later,
Charis
I have a prosthetic shel in my left eye and a normal right one. I have light perception in my right eye so i woldn't want to get rid of it. I don't mind my shell, it makes me look better and more presentable. i have to clean it every week but that's about it. i haven't had any embarrassing incodents with it, though i know a friend who had his eye fall out in a bowl of ice cream. lol.
I have the Bio Eye this prosthesis mimics exactly the movement of my former real right eye ..so the intensly blue pupil is still all over the place