Ever since I received my cornea transplant I made it a point to send out a Christmas card as a thank you for their generosity.
Without their generosity and their willingness to help others despite their tragic loss I wouldn’t have been able to keep my eye site and for that I will be forever thankful.
I greatly encourage others to consider organ donation if the time comes. You will get the chance to extract some sort of good out of a tragic situation.
Two years ago today was my official diagnosis of keratoconus. It sure shows how fast time goes by as it doesn’t quite feel like it has been 2 years since I found out about this eye condition that was going undetected all these years. This most likely started way back when I was in high school.
As of today I only have 3 more months of taking my anti rejection drops.
As per usual this will mark my full recovery. Things continue to go smoothly and once I am done with my drops I will be past the time frame where the majority of cornea graft rejections occur and should be able to anticipate my new cornea to last for quite some time.
So during the weekend I have been practicing the motions to get my test contact in. As per instructions I am only to actually put it in during business hours. My little incident the very first attempt highlighted the importance of the matter.
On Monday I am pretty sure that I will be successful in getting the contact in. I always figured the hard part would be getting the contact to stay on the finger but it turns out getting it in is the hard part lol.
Kinda going to miss glasses but this seems to be the only option to get worthwhile vision out of my left eye which is surprising as as it stood I didn’t think the vision of the left eye would be bad enough that glasses wouldn’t help. But at the same time I would have likely have had to move on to contacts sometime in the future anyway and life with contacts does have its pros and cons.
Tomorrow at 11:45 am I will be getting fitted for contacts at Wolfe Eye Clinic.
It also occurred to me that I am done with the follow up appointments for my cornea transplant and only have to get a yearly check up.
My appointment went well as expected.
It has been determined that contacts would be my best bet in terms of overall vision. This isn’t all that surprising given the vision level of my left eye.
I get fitted for them on Friday I’ll then see if both eyes are getting contacts or if I’ll be going in a hybrid setup with the contact in left eye and current glasses for the right.
I also found out that I will be discontinuing eye drops in six months as healing is going as expected.
In a way I think I’ll miss my glasses but if things are going to be better with contacts then so be it.
Tomorrow is my next big appointment.
I will also be finding out if its best for me to stick with glasses or to get contact lenses. I kind of hope I get to keep using glasses as I’m kind of nervous with the prospect of getting the dang contacts in my eye reliably.
This will be my first appointment since the remainder of the sutures have been removed.
Nearing that time again I am one week away from my next appointment.
I will be seeing my cornea doctor as well as their doctor that deals with lenses/contacts fitting. It will then be determined if glasses or contacts would be my best option.
Kinda hoping that I get to stick with glasses as just can’t see how I can get them in easily and I have grown into the preference of glasses.