Years ago, I had a little lady that developed dry eye as a secondary symptom to initial issue with her eye....it never resolved and I remember I was also given the options you have been given. I did not give eye removal a second thought, as long as the eye remained "presentable" and did not start to shrink and collapse into itself. Her eye remained intact, her sight deteriorated to just seeing shadows, but that was OK. I opted for the eye care....daily drops and cleaning her little eye 2-3 times a day. It was time consuming and inconvienent, but she knew when I said, "lets do your eye care", she would run to the kitchen for me to clean her eye and put her drops. For years I used drops...I cant remember what they were....but then I was talking to a doctor at the hospital where I worked and he told me about Lacricet (maybe not correct sp.)...maybe Lacriset....he used it with his cancer patients who had lost their ability to produce tears....it is a tiny little thing the size of a grain of white rice...you put it inside the ey, between the lower lid and the eyeball, and it dissolves slowly aver 24 hours....so I got a prescription for that, and we used those the last 7 years of her life....worked great. |