Kes and Alexx go to the Ocularist

[alexxkay]

At long last, kestrell was able to get fitted for her new prosthetics. She asked me to document the process, so I took lots of pictures. A few of them may not be for the squeamish!

The ocularists are still a little un-hip about the whole 'Delerium eyes' thing, so have been largely cropped out of the photos.

Taking the T there.


In the waiting room.


Sitting in the examining chair.


Folding up the cane.


Kes hisses at me for taking her picture with no prosthetics in, when her eyes look sunken.


The first 'tray', through which they will pump the molding clay, has been inserted.


Both trays are in.


Injecting clay into the left eye socket.


...and the right.


Clay has been injected, now waiting for it to set.


Removing the molds.



Wow, this uploading process takes a long time, and I'm paranoid that LJ will eat the post. So I'm going to split this into multiple parts.

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Comments

[tamarinne.livejournal.com]

Wow, those photos of the molds being made (with the tubes in her eyes) are awesomely disturbing!

[stormsdotter.livejournal.com]

Alexx, please lj-cut. Those photos are disturbing and taking up a lot of my friends' list.

[jesse_the_k (from livejournal.com)]

The "tray" stage was just as disturbing as I imagined; I'm stunned at the happy face Kes is wearing through out.

The best pic, however, is the first one, where she's channeling a Jackie Kennedy "I'm in mufti on the T" look.

[amy lejeune (from livejournal.com)]

What a truly unique and fantastic story. How anyone could find anything (including photos) disturbing is beyond me.

[prozacnation.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting this! My friend sent me to your journal because I have a scleral shell and I believe made by the same ocularist as you went to.

I'm from Buffalo NY and went to an ocularist in Boston MA. I was just there last week for a cleaning and buffing.