Near seven in the evening, Lin Jie stepped out of the operating room, instantly greeted by a pair of anxious parents.
"Expert Lin, was the surgery successful?"
"Expert Lin, did you save my son's eye?"
This was an emergency surgery Lin Jie took on in the afternoon.
A nine-year-old boy, whose right eye had been pierced by a fragment of a box cutter blade due to an accident.
The fragment pierced the eyeball, directly hitting the optic disk. Faced with this thorny situation, several ophthalmologists at the Affiliated Hospital were not confident about saving the eye.
In such a scenario, Lin Jie was called upon and ended up performing this four-hour-long surgery.
"The eye is saved, but vision is definitely going to be affected. As for the exact degree of impact, we'll have to wait for the follow-up in a few days."
Upon hearing Lin Jie deliver the news, the parents both sighed with great relief.
"As long as the eye is saved and he's not blind, that's good, that's good!"
