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MOIve had a few similar questions and hope this helps to answer;
I had an evisceration, which means the back part of my natural eye was left in place. An acrylic implant was then placed inside the socket, and the eye muscles were wrapped around that implant. This is what allows movement and gives the socket a fuller, more rounded appearance, even when I’m not wearing my prosthetic.
My eye was very enlarged before surgery, which is why my implant is quite large. Because of that, the prosthetic that sits in front of it is very thin. When I’m not wearing it, it can look like there’s “almost an eye there,” just without the coloured part.
Not everyone’s surgery is the same. Some people have the entire eye and muscles removed, often due to trauma or cancer, so their anatomy and movement may look different. My story is a little different, and I’ve shared more detail in a pinned post at the top of my page and in highlights if anyone wants to understand the journey more fully.
Questions like this, asked with genuine curiosity and a desire to understand, are one of the reasons why I have this profile. I want to help open conversations, share information, and raise awareness around visible differences, eye loss and so much more.
Thank you for asking, thank you for wanting to learn and than you for being here 💙
Video description: a close up of Hattie, a pale brunette, without her right eye in the socket, looking left, right, up and back to the camera, with an onscreen question from a comment in a previous video reads: Just curious, but is there no eye in that socket at all ?because it totally looks like an eye but it’s just missing the colored part I guess you would say
#nystagmus #evisceration #prostheticeye #eyesurgery #ophthalmology
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