Eye Report

Clay had an eye appointment on the 11^th. The doctor really doesn’t know why his vision took a turn for the worse at Christmastime. The good news is that the eye looks good and there are no signs of rejection of the new cornea. On the down side, his eye pressure had climbed quite high on the day of the appointment. The doctor thinks the increase in eye pressure was caused by the eyedrop he takes to prevent rejection of the cornea.

The eye pressure does not explain the decreased vision, but it is important to get the pressure back down. Therefore, Clay was prescribed one more eyedrop to take twice daily for controlling the pressure. This makes a total of 4 different drops he takes between 2 and 4 times a day each. He has to wait several minutes between drops, so taking them sometimes seems like a full-time job.

For now we are just waiting to see if Clay’s vision will improve and hopefully return to what he saw in late November and early December. I think we expected that after surgery his improvement in vision over time would look something like this:

But instead, it has gone a bit more like this:

Clay’s next eye appointment is in a month – February 15^th. For now we wait.