Friday, March 19, 2010

This medical stuff is wild

Saw the doctor again today and he took more measurements of my right eye and also "adjusted" the tension on one of the sutures.  I read in an article (click here) published by the American Academy of Opthalmology that sutures can be used to adjust pre-existing astigmatism in the eye. Well, today, he measured my astigmatism and then, after putting a pain blocker in my eye, used an instrument to adjust the suture.  It appeared to be a 'needle in the eye' but I could not feel a thing.  He then remeasured my astigmatism and it had definitely improved.  Wow!

The bottom line is that my right eye is now at 20-30 or perhaps 20-25 and he said it will improve from here. Amazing.  My left eye, formerly known as my good eye, measures out at 20-80.  For those who are reading this outside of the USA, here is a link to a Wikipedia article explaining how to convert these numbers.

Amazing, simply amazing.

On a totally different topic, this blog is automatically sent to some of my readers (limit of 10) when I push the "post" button. And, some of them complained about yesterday's picture not being visible in the email. This morning I included instructions for that group of 10 to go to the blog to see images if the email failed.

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