By the end of this workweek we will be moving into NOVEMBER! It doesn’t seem possible. I thought I needed to give you all a some kind of an update.
For the time being and hopefully for the next
2 – 3 months at least, my vision has improved enough that I am back, and stay
there, to work – last week was my first week for a few weeks where I have
actually been able to get in a full 5 day work week, 8 hrs each day – not even
a doc appt (that came this past Saturday only because the bandage contact lens
I was wearing came out and I can’t put it back in) . Since 9/23/13, when I had outpatient surgery
to remove the basal cell carcinoma (clean margins) from the bridge of my nose
(same side as eye with problems), I have had an increase in my vision problems –
the surgeon had assured me that would not happen but that was BEFORE he knew
how deep the bcc had gone (to the bone)
which warranted a change in how he did the graft which pulled down on my lower
eyelid which exposed the eye to even more problems. Even tho no new additional eye problems were
anticipated as a result of the bcc surgery – it is amazing how my vision has
improved as that surgical site has healed and once again my lower eyelid is
getting, not just back to the way it was before all this but maybe a little
better.
Ok – so now I am waiting for my next go-round
of eye procedures which is scheduled for 1/21/14 in Overland Park, Kansas then
a follow-up appointment the NEXT day – also in O.P.
That will be when my eye specialist will take stem cells from my left (non-functioning but otherwise healthy) eye and transplant them onto my RIGHT eye in hopes of improving the health of my R eye. Then he will cover that with a couple layers of amniotic stem cells to add extra protection/healing which will just about do away with any vision for a few days until the healing process takes hold - I AM NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS PART!
Anyway, better get this posted before much more time passes. Shiloh'n Diva Shasta are well - eating, going out and then coming in - a few times, napping as much as they can along with the occasional tussle then sharing the bed with me - I thought I had a full size bed but usually I MIGHT get 10 inches of it. Right now at night they are outside, doing a howling good job of keeping the backyard critter free. Guess I best get them in before they wake up the neighborhood.
That will be when my eye specialist will take stem cells from my left (non-functioning but otherwise healthy) eye and transplant them onto my RIGHT eye in hopes of improving the health of my R eye. Then he will cover that with a couple layers of amniotic stem cells to add extra protection/healing which will just about do away with any vision for a few days until the healing process takes hold - I AM NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS PART!
Anyway, better get this posted before much more time passes. Shiloh'n Diva Shasta are well - eating, going out and then coming in - a few times, napping as much as they can along with the occasional tussle then sharing the bed with me - I thought I had a full size bed but usually I MIGHT get 10 inches of it. Right now at night they are outside, doing a howling good job of keeping the backyard critter free. Guess I best get them in before they wake up the neighborhood.
