Sunday, October 17

In ten days I have another appointment and probably another inoculation into the eye.  The reason I have not added anything lately, is little or no change in the vision in my eye.  Looking at the chart with quarter inch squares, they still are blurred and not straight line. I notice a gray, darker area to the center and yet my glasses do make a bit of a difference, yet are worse for the ten foot chart I also have posted. If I were to guess I am about 20-50 right now, maybe 20-40 if I push it.

Following the docs orders I am washing my eyelashes twice a day to get rid of my “Eyelash dandruff” and it seems to be working, less grit when I wake up.   Don’t watch much TV, it is more for background noise, and have the radio or CD player on instead. Reading is a bit better, but need the magnifying glass for some of the smaller print.  If you ever read a government contract or bid, you understand.

Life goes on, and we will cope.  

TEN DAYS

TEN DAYS FROM THE SECOND INJECTION

Today is ten days from the date of the second or normally prescribed drug injection.  Perhaps I was expecting too much, considering the rapid progress after the insertion of the trial dosage. My wife tells me my eye is still showing signs of the hemorrhage and is red in the lower right hand side.  Yesterday I woke up to see the black blob, the trial drug; which has remained hidden, appear and float around the right side of the eye, discerning to say the least. But a few blinks and it stays hidden which is good.  My vision is much better in bright lights or sunlit areas.  The straight lines now only have one hic-cup, but the acuity is still fuzzy.  If I were to read an eye chart I would probably fail, yet the overall peripheral vision seems better.  Today I noticed an anomaly, I was looking out our front window through the screen and for some reason the vision was sharper with the screen in the way. Maybe the screen was bending the light rays?  Vision is still blurry when I try to read something unless I am very close, at ten feet it is all fuzzy with no sharp edges, if I were to guess it is between 20-50 and 20-70 or more today as I write this. 

As a right eyed photographer , it is frustrating to pick up a camera and see the gray area in the center, have to use the left eye for focus and find I am stpping back a bit to make sure everything is in the image I want to capture.   We will beat this, I trust the doctors and that attitude is half the battle.