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Saturday, January 11, 2014
Woman Tries To Change Eye Colour But Ends Up Getting Blind
Sometimes you just need to stay the way Lord God created you except you were born blind then you can treat yourself to gain sight or if you are disabled.
A student from London was temporary blinded after surgery to change the colour of her eyes. Shenise Farrell travelled to Panama, in Central America, for the unregulated procedure to change her eye colour from dark brown to light brown.
She spent £8,000 on the operation but it went wrong and she was almost left permanently blind.
Ms Farrell decided in 2009 that she wanted to change the colour of her eyes and so she began researching surgical options.
Despite her family’s horror, she travelled to Panama to have a procedure which involved implanting coloured discs – like a contact lenses – into her eyes
When Ms Farrell arrived at the clinic in Panama, she was told that she could not have the light brown implants as they were out of stock.
As a result, the surgeon informed her that she would be given blue implants instead.
Despite this not being her original intention, she decided to go ahead with the operation.
Ms Farrell says that during the procedure she screamed and the surgeon told her not to scream as it 'could cause things to go wrong'.
To her huge shock, at the end of the 20 minute procedure, Ms Farrell realised she couldn’t see properly.
She says it was as though she was looking underwater but the surgeon told her not to worry and that for some patients it took up to two weeks for vision to return to normal.
However, by the time Ms Farrell returned to London her sight had deteriorated further.
She went to Charing Cross Hospital where she was unable even to read the biggest letter on the optician’s chart.
Doctors at the hospital had never seen anything like it so were temporarily at a loss as to how to help her.
Eventually, it was decided that the implants had to be removed.
Ms Farrell risked permanent blindness to go under the knife again.
This time, surgeons made an incision in her corneas to allow them to remove the implants.
Ms Farrell said: ‘When I woke up I saw black. I panicked. I thought if my vision goes, my life will be over.'
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