Eye Am What Eye Am

I am about to go to see my retina specialist to get examined and treated.

First I will be dilated (with eye drops), and then get some scans and a pressure test, and maybe dynamic photos where they inject a dye (into my arm) that shows up on the photos, so they can track blood flow in real time. The only downside is my pee will look like Mt. Dew for two days.

And finally, my eyes likely will get numbed with drops, and eyelid clamps will be applied to keep them open.

Then come the drug injections!

One per eye. Into the whites.

But it is not too bad, just a prick. Yet sometimes a blood spot forms at the injection site, on my whites, which can take a few days or even a week to get flushed out naturally.

I have diabetic retinopathy, which means leaky and overgrown capillaries. The capillaries leak due to sugar damage, then the vessels respond by growing too much. It can lead to blondness. The injected-drug reduces vessel growth.

But I have been getting the treatment for over a year and it is working. And long ago, before the injections, they zapped peripheral capillaries with a green laser to stop growth.

May your eyeballs stay clear and your sunglasses block the glares of life

[I have no clue why SW labelled this mildly adult. Healthcare is not sexy.]