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.
Today I had an appointment at Wolfe Eye Clinic to see how my graft is doing, if my right eye is progressing, and if cross linking is recommended.
I am pleased to report that everything is going well no problems no progression and no need for corneal cross linking for now
Today marks my 5th year anniversary of having my keratoconus diagnosis confirmed. I also learned that my left eye was already bad enough to need a cornea transplant to restore vision enough to be considered useable.
It doesn’t feel like it could have been 5 years but it has 7/11/2016 was the day I had the initial diagnosis of keratoconus that Millers Family Eye Care that got me referred over to Wolfe Eye Clinic confirmed.
As a result things started to head in the right direction and I owe all of this to getting a second opinion and if I would have listened to the first I would have been in a much worse situation potentially causing my cornea to rupture.
As of now I get nearly 20/20 in my left eye and 20/20 in my right thanks to scleral contacts.
Its that time again. Today marks 5 years since I went to Millers Family Eye Care and was told that I likely have Keratoconus.
I regard this as my 5 year anniversary of my unofficial diagnosis as it wasn’t confirmed by a specialist yet. July 11 is when my diagnosis of Keratoconus becomes official.
Today I had my yearly full eye exam. This is something everyone should be doing for the safety of their vision and health. My sclerals are still giving me 20/20.
I expected things to go smoothly this time which it actually did. This would be my first eye exam where I wasn’t surprised with something going on.
In just a week and a half I will be hitting another milestone and shortly after another similar milestone.
4 years ago today I had my cornea transplant. I am pleased to report that my cornea graft is going strong still. It doesn’t seem that long ago since I had to get my cornea transplant.
Things have changed a great deal in these 4 years and even had cataract surgery that was likely due to the anti rejection eye drops I had to take.
Overall this seems to still be a thing I don’t regret doing as it was defiantly massively beneficial to have done. I thank the donor family for being able to provide me a cornea to regain my lost vision.