Well, other than a few comments today, my vision has been shot. I've been to the eye surgeon again today, and after dilation, I take a long time to return to my normal, so I'm just now able to actually sit and write fairly well. I was all mentally prepared for another round of shots in my eye and laser surgery, because I'm still having trouble with my right eye. It IS doing better than it had been, which was essentially blind, other than faint shadow. I now can read a little, if the characters are sufficiently large enough, and I see some color again. I can recognize general shapes and objects, again, of reasonable size. This is better, and I didn't end up in surgery today! I'm doing well enough that the surgeon wants more time to reveal the true status of the one bad eye. My left eye is essentially fixed, both in his opinion and mine. Basically, little to no bleeding any more.
There's still blood pooled at the bottom of the right eye on the inside, but it's being both drained off and absorbed by the body (sorry if this is really gross; I understand). And my bad eye is cloudy from the laser; usually after multiple high-power laser treatments, you end up needing follow-up cataract surgery as well. 10,000 years worth of light-energy pushed through that lens will definitely make it cloudy! And I had misunderstood something about how this surgery actually stops the bleeding: the goal IS to create a scar all around the retina. But I was under the impression that the scar was to create a kind of "weed barrier" of sorts, where new veins (the culprits behind the blood in my eyes) couldn't penetrate the scar, so they could not enter into the eye, rupture, and blind me. Wrong. The scar reduces the oxygen demand of the eye. Scar tissue requires almost no oxygen to sustain, unlike actual functional eye tissue. This reduced oxygen demand triggers the body to stop producing those new veins that keep bleeding in my eye. Interesting! Well, to me, anyway...
Anyway, it all comes down to this: I didn't have painful laser surgery today, I didn't have VERY painful vitrectomy surgery today, and they think I'm gonna see again soon! SWEET. I waited long enough for this; I still can't really believe it yet. I'll believe it when I "see" it! hahaha No; seriously, I think it's gonna work out.
John
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