Wednesday, August 24, 2005

off to the park...

i'm actually going to the park to play some v-ball. i can't believe that i've missed almost an entire summer due to my freakin' eye...which is maybe 85%. unfortunately, i think i've plateaued in my vision progress...which may mean one last steroid injection in the eyelid. i don't care what it takes, i just want to be 100% in the left eye.

my eye really has come a long way though. at the end of may, i couldn't even see a hand in front of my face...i was dispensing steroid eye drops at the rate of 16x a day for a week...dilating 3x a day...and on a strong regimen of 80mg. of prednisone (which made me crazy and gave me acne). now, my vision is 20/30 and i'm down to one steroid drop a day and one dilation. i've been off all pills and will stop the drops beginning sunday. i've got one more appointment with the retinal specialist on monday (who's probably gonna give me the shot) and another with the corneal guy at the end of september.

whew!

i'm hoping that ten days in mexico will be the turning point for the eye. mebbe beer, tacos, high altitude, and pollution make the magic elixir for uveitis ;)

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