Yes. I am still here.
No. I haven't had the surgery yet.
My life has been taken over with other various and assorted chaotic events and higher priorities. Organizing this surgery takes a lot of time, as I found out the first time around. Phone calls, consultations, paper-work, physicals, more phone calls. But I'm clearing the deck so I can dig in for round two.
In the meantime, I noticed that a lot of people find my blog when they are searching for before and after pictures of strabismus surgery. I remember trolling the internet for before and after surgery photos when I was starting to think seriously about this surgery. I wanted to be sure that battering through my fear was going to be well worth it. There weren't a lot of pictures then. There aren't a lot of pictures now, and one could spend hours in Google looking for such pictures.
Here I'm compiling a list of links to before and after images of strabismus surgery. If you're visiting and you've stumbled across some good ones I don't have listed here, please share in the comments. For now, here are a few to start. I will add to this list as I find more.
Scroll over before pictures to see the after images for 5 types of eye alignment surgeries.
http://www.pedseye.com/treatment_results.htm
This site has a series of five before and after pictures, mostly of infants and children. One adult case is featured.
http://www.straighteyes.com/beforeandafter.htm
Only two pictures, but a nice simple explanation of surgery.
http://www.mypedeyedr.com/StrabSurg.htm
Takes you through the stages of eye muscle surgery. Only one before and after picture, and it is not clear if it is an illustration or an actual person.
http://www.dhmc.org/
