Is it sad that I'm excited to be doing my first ptosis crutch? I'm such an eyeglass dork. I'm familier with them and I've done a little reading up on them since I'm going to be doing one, but I was wondering if anyone had any advice on them.
Is it sad that I'm excited to be doing my first ptosis crutch? I'm such an eyeglass dork. I'm familier with them and I've done a little reading up on them since I'm going to be doing one, but I was wondering if anyone had any advice on them.
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Go easy!
Enjoy the moment.
Take pictures.
Tell your friends.
Raise a glass!
There is something about your *FIRST* that will stick with you forever. Let it be a good memory.
Good luck and welcome to the Ptosis Crutch Club!
:cheers::cheers::cheers:
Plastic chassis:
Take an old piece of temple, cut to lenght, sharpen one end, heat and press into chassis, Bend to shape and coat with ear-ease or dip-cote or shrink wrap.
Metal temple, same proceedure but weld or solder to chassis.
Practice with some scrap chassis(es) and temples before trying for the patient's frame.
Chip
and this is why I LOVE working in a hospital - I get to see such interesting things all the freaking time!
Bart Smith, continuing to be awesome since 1982 so that you don't have to.
Love is a duet, each voice complementing each other and making them sound better than they would alone, each voice at times stepping back and letting the other shine. We've got a pretty good duet going Tina.
On April 28th, I'll be marrying my best friend. I can't wait!
Make sure your soldering skills are up to snuff, and test your joint to make sure it won't break on the patient, use a crutch made of gold or any other inert metal to avoid allergic reactions or if using monel from a cut up frame cover it with heat shrink tubing and dull the temporal edge + drop a ball of solder on the end and file and polish it smooth to reduce the risk of the patient jabbing themselves in the eye. I have seen a few opticians solder both sides of the crutch the temporal and the nasal, I have foudn in the few instances I have done one that it's easier to adjust when you just sodelr the nasal side and adjust. Your in Laruel, MD I work in the Baltimore area and used to live in the Silver Spring area. Great to have a native on the board.
I could even be convinced to come down and help out, maybe even buy you a drink. :cheers:
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well I work in DC, but our lab is in Baltimore- we use the zeiss lab there. In fact I was talking to the lab people and I think i'm going to let them do the soddering because I'm pretty sure I'd set myself on fire somehow if I tried it myself....yeah I'm a pansy I'll admit it. :)
Bart Smith, continuing to be awesome since 1982 so that you don't have to.
Love is a duet, each voice complementing each other and making them sound better than they would alone, each voice at times stepping back and letting the other shine. We've got a pretty good duet going Tina.
On April 28th, I'll be marrying my best friend. I can't wait!
I made quite a few of them in my lifetime, but when it was my time to use one myself I went to an opthalmic plastic surgeon who took 45 minutes to open the eyelid, fix it and I walked out the hospital being a heck more confortable than I would have been with an eyelid holder.
yeah, that's the best way to go if you can, this poor unfortunant is not a surgery canidate.
also, I'd tell you all about the customer I'm attempting to deal with right now, but if I did - you too would become depressed enough to consider suicide as the honorable alternitive to thinking about it.......
Bart Smith, continuing to be awesome since 1982 so that you don't have to.
Love is a duet, each voice complementing each other and making them sound better than they would alone, each voice at times stepping back and letting the other shine. We've got a pretty good duet going Tina.
On April 28th, I'll be marrying my best friend. I can't wait!
Chris:
I have often made Ptosis crutches for patient's that one or more attempts at lid surgery have failed for.
Chip
Bart Smith, continuing to be awesome since 1982 so that you don't have to.
Love is a duet, each voice complementing each other and making them sound better than they would alone, each voice at times stepping back and letting the other shine. We've got a pretty good duet going Tina.
On April 28th, I'll be marrying my best friend. I can't wait!
I've made quite a few of them too. Just follow what everyone says and you will be OK. If you do send it to the lab, check it out very carefully when it comes back so that you will know how to do it next time.
P.S. I use paper clips and shrink tubing to make them. :D
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Bart Smith, continuing to be awesome since 1982 so that you don't have to.
Love is a duet, each voice complementing each other and making them sound better than they would alone, each voice at times stepping back and letting the other shine. We've got a pretty good duet going Tina.
On April 28th, I'll be marrying my best friend. I can't wait!
Just for the record, and general information. I had my original ptosis fixed on my right eye, in 2007 I believe.
Half way through 2013 they did it again, and the surgeon told me that he would do it along the eyebrow, so he could do it again on the eyelid at any later date.
He was so right. I feel that I have to do it again, probably in the coming year, 2018 as it slowly is starting to bother me again.
That is just for the general information, that a one time surgical ptosis correction is not always the final permanent solution.
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