February 13, 2008

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  I called my opthamologist on Friday and he was able to squeeze me in.

  
  

  I have filamentary keratitis, caused from dry eyes. You know how our dead skin cells slough off… well, our eyeballs do the same thing, I guess. But since I don’t make enough tears to flush them out, they ended up linking together and formed 3 strands. One end of each of these 3 strands attached itself to my cornea so each time I blink I’d scrape them against my cornea. Think: windshield wipers. So my blurry vision is from my scratched up cornea.

  
  

  He used a tweezer to take them out. Fortunately I didn’t feel a thing. He said that my cornea would heal up on its own, maybe even overnight!

  
  

  Hallelujah! I was so elated it was such a simple solution. I really thought that I was going blind and that the other eye would follow suit shortly. I was ready to hear some bad news.

  
  

  I’m no longer seeing massive haloes around lights. The night before seeing the doctor, I started seeing triangles around every light. Even airplanes. I never realized how many street light there are down Gale or Valley/Grand!! Wow! And when you drive by car lots… it’s blindingly, overwhelmingly scary!

  
  

  I’m not seeing weird light stuff at night anymore… but my vision is still blurry though. It’s better, but still blurry. What’s up with that? I will see him again in a month. He is such a good doctor.
  
  Thanks again for your concern and prayers! Vision is such a GOOD thing!! Love your eyes today!
  
  

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