WELCOME TO 502NUGGETY: Central America

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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Student,
Shenise Farrell from London was left temporarily blind after surgery to change
the colour of her eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Shenise
Farrell travelled to Panama, in Central America, for the unregulated procedure
to change her eye colour from dark brown to light brown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She
spent £8,000 on the operation but it went wrong and she was almost left
permanently blind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ms
Farrell decided in 2009 that she wanted to change the colour of her eyes and so
she began researching surgical options.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">According
to Ms Farrell 'I was so determined to get the surgery nothing rang alarm bells
for me - nothing obvious.'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">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'.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">To her
huge shock, at the end of the 20 minute procedure, Ms Farrell realised she
couldn’t see properly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Doctors
at the hospital had never seen anything like it so were temporarily at a loss
as to how to help her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Eventually,
it was decided that the implants had to be removed. Ms Farrell risked permanent
blindness to go under the knife again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This
time, surgeons made an incision in her corneas to allow them to remove the
implants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ms
Farrell said: ‘When I woke up I saw black. I panicked. I thought if my vision
goes, my life will be over.'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">However,
the blackness she saw was only caused by the bandaged surgeons had placed over
her eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When
these were removed, she was able to see again but her vision was blurry. It
took two to three months for her vision to return to normal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She
said: 'Now that my eyes are back to normal, my eyes are brown but it doesn’t
matter what shade of brown it is. The main thing is that I can see.'<o:p></o:p></span></div>

I had surgery in Panama to change my eye colour – but ended up blind

Student, Shenise Farrell from London was left temporarily blind after surgery to change the colour of her eyes. Shenise Farrell trave...