Today marks my 6 year anniversary of my cornea transplant!.

Sadly not everything is going well as my keratoconus is returning.

Thankfully I caught it rather quickly and recently had CXL done on the effected eye. It’s too soon to tell how effective it will be but hopefully it will extend the life of the cornea graft avoiding another cornea transplant.

While not the best of news it could have been worse. Hopefully things will work out and will be quite some time before i need another transplant.

Today marks the first week since my crosslinking surgery.

It also means that my prednisolone eye drops, and antibiotic eye drops changed from four times a day to three times a day. Though the continuation of the antibiotic drops was only due to healing being slower than anticipated. I expect good news this time around as everything feels like its normal now.

Friday, I have another checkup to see how the healing is going and is also the Six Year Anniversary of my Cornea Transplant surgery!

Had the checkup appointment to check how I was healing.

While I am mostly healed I still have a small area that hasn’t healed yet. As a result I have to have a second check up in a week and my antibiotic eye drops extended a week.

While the results could have been better it is still progress in the right direction just slower than anticipated. It will be quite some time to judge the results of the crosslinking.

Today I had my Cornal Collagen Cross Linking Surgery also known as CXL.

It Went pretty smoothly though my light sensitivity made it extremely difficult to tolerate the light they needed to use to scrap off the uppermost layer of my cornea. This is done so that the drops they use for the crosslinking can penetrate my eye better as without doing it we would have to be doing this for much longer. Plus the US only authorized the Epi off version of this treatment .

Hopefully this will prevent the keratoconus that’s returning on my transplant eye from progressing thus preventing a need of another transplant.