Eye Surgery: The Report
For those of you who don't know (or don't remember), I had eye surgery this past May.
I was born with a disease called ocular albinism. I lack pigment in my body. When I was born, my eyes were translucent, and my vision was hovering around 250/20, with glasses affixed to my face. (For comparison, 20/20 is perfect human vision, 50/20 while wearing glasses is the worst your eyes can be and still be allowed to drive. My vision was five times worse than that).
Anyway, as I got older, my eyes did improve somewhat, and when I was in fifth grade my eye doctor had me add in video games as a means f improving coordination and reaction time. It improved to about 100/20, or one fifth of perfect human vision. Normally, this would be considered visually impaired, and not legally blind, but my photophobia (light sensitivity), 150 degrees of deviation (uncontrollable shaking in my eyes) and the fact that I had no peripheral vision meant that I was still very much legally blind. Oh, and I had no muscular control over my left eye.
I just got back from the ophthalmologist, who checked up on me post op. I now have muscular control over both my eyes, only 4 degrees of deviation, and peripheral vision.
Oh, and I'm 70/20 now, and the doctor says I'll probably go to 60/20 by next year as my eyes adjust post-op. I may hit the magic 50/20, and someday be able to drive.
In short,
I AM NO LONGER LEGALLY BLIND!
I was born with a disease called ocular albinism. I lack pigment in my body. When I was born, my eyes were translucent, and my vision was hovering around 250/20, with glasses affixed to my face. (For comparison, 20/20 is perfect human vision, 50/20 while wearing glasses is the worst your eyes can be and still be allowed to drive. My vision was five times worse than that).
Anyway, as I got older, my eyes did improve somewhat, and when I was in fifth grade my eye doctor had me add in video games as a means f improving coordination and reaction time. It improved to about 100/20, or one fifth of perfect human vision. Normally, this would be considered visually impaired, and not legally blind, but my photophobia (light sensitivity), 150 degrees of deviation (uncontrollable shaking in my eyes) and the fact that I had no peripheral vision meant that I was still very much legally blind. Oh, and I had no muscular control over my left eye.
I just got back from the ophthalmologist, who checked up on me post op. I now have muscular control over both my eyes, only 4 degrees of deviation, and peripheral vision.
Oh, and I'm 70/20 now, and the doctor says I'll probably go to 60/20 by next year as my eyes adjust post-op. I may hit the magic 50/20, and someday be able to drive.
In short,
I AM NO LONGER LEGALLY BLIND!
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You, my friend, are an evil, evil man.
Euch, eyes.
Did you get cool eyepatches?
Seriously, though, I'm glad it went well. I wish you good things ocularly for the future.
If I remember correctly, divisonten mentioned those clockwork orange keep-eye-open thingies specifically back then. So, yeah.
You sure it was that and not some sort of demonic possession or something? =P
Congrats, how's it feel to be able to see that much better than most of your life?
You're like Jesus.
Suddenly having peripheral vision has gotta be crazy. All those paranoia-inducing optical illusions that happen in periphery, ready to be experienced for the first time... fun!
No, not "hear, hear". "See, see".
I "See" what you did there.
I "see" what you've done there.
Edit: Ninjaed!
EDIT: And I just realised that the same obvious joke had been previously made. Darn my unimaginative puns.