Community Event / Creation Part Silicon

[Andrew Linton]

For three hours in the operating theatre I scream silently as the surgical team attaches the bionoptic device. The anaesthetic has left me paralysed but sentient. I feel every nerve-severing stroke of the robotic lancet and I try to twist away from the pain. My numbed muscles ignore the urgent signals to move. I feel the brutal tug of the surgical separators holding my left eye socket unnaturally wide, and I try desperately to tell the surgeon to stop as tweezers grasp and yank out the remaining fragments of Asp Explorer canopy from my wounds. The jagged edges of the larger pieces rip through more nerve endings on their way out. I feel each stab of the suture needles and I'm desperate to let them know I'm in agony, but my tongue lies still and I'm locked in to this world of pain until they've finished. Continue reading about Kit Ausland's bionic eye at: https://kittheoutlander.wordpress.com/part-silicon/