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Mumbai/IBNS: Bollywood veteran Zeenat Aman has opened up about undergoing a surgery to recover from an eye injury which she suffered 40 years ago.
In her own characteristic detailed post on Instagram, Zeenat Aman wrote she underwent the surgery earlier this year.
The injury, as Zeenat Aman says, had damaged the muscles around her right eye.
She wrote, “There has been an elephant in the room with me for the past 40 years. It is time to show this elephant the door. I have a condition know as ptosis – the result of an injury I suffered many decades ago that damaged the muscles around my right eye.
“Over the years, it caused my eyelid to droop further and further. And a few years ago it became so acute that it began to obstruct my vision.”
Though several treatments she received over the decades went in vain, this time she had learnt a successful “surgery” was possible”.
The actress wrote, “The treatments available to me at that time, and for decades after, were unsuccessful. Then this year in April, a leading ophthalmologist informed me that things had advanced, and a surgery to lift the eyelid and restore my field of vision was possible.”
“I dithered for a long time, then underwent a battery of tests and finally committed to the procedure. That morning in the hospital I was terrified.
