Wednesday, December 20, 2006

full contact tag team opthamology

Back to the eye doc for my first checkup post discovery and certification of my not abnormal brain. Not sure that is the same thing as a normal brain. My eye continues to show improvement and Doc Geoff had a good look around. Dilated my pupil massively with three different drops and a very fine needle - thanks for that. Then it was light -as-bright-as-the-sun while he had a look with a microscope. Think of it as low level torture. He seemed mostly pleased and I am npow down to a single drop in just the right eye once a day. Hurrah for that. But he still wants to know what is going on and thought it would be good if another of the opthamolagists had a look too.

So I went to the other side of the centre and waited to be seen by a guy whose name already escapes me and who in turn called a third eye doc in to have a look. They were looking for an opic nerve occlusion and concluded I did not have one. That is a good thing because it leads to blindness. Let em get this straight - that is what I don't have? Yep, don't. ather it looks like uveitis brought on by my immune system throwing a wobble and deciding that the lining of my eye is a foreign body. In only 15% of cases is a root case discovered on the first flare up and I am in the other 85%, having had all the checks of my bones, brain and blood come back clear.

Both the two new docs mentioned elevated closing pressure of my eye (maybe of the optic nerve, not sure.) The highly scientific way they establishd that was by shining their portable-sunlights into my eye while I stared ahead and they poked me in the eye (on the eyelid, so not too bad) until I couldn't see. With their finger. Thanks for that doc number 2, hey doc number 3, you wanna go as well?

So in conclusion...back again in early Feb by which time the injection stuff will be wearing off and I should be continuing to ge better but we'll see. If you'll pardon the pun. If i is coming back they check me for syphilis and might give me another injection, this one not next to the eyeball like the last one, but in it. Now here's something to look forward to. I think I'll take the getting better option.

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