Well shit....

So a little eye update.  Since I finished radiation,  my eye is crusted shut every morning.  No big deal.  I got some powerful eyelids so I just rip them open and remove the crust.  Now I've had my fair share of pink eye over the years  and know an infected eye, the crust is yellow/green.  My crust is just a lovely shade of white.  So I didn't worry too much about it.  My eye has been through hell this past month.  But I decided to call Dr. C to see if I should be worried.  He called me back yesterday saying it wasn't a huge concern but he would like me to see my Ophthalmologist within the next week.  Ummm.....I don't really have an Ophthalmologist.  In fact,  I've not had my eyes checked since I started Prednisone....oh a bazillion years ago.  I called around without much luck and then, I remembered Dr. W who did my Lasik's years ago.  Luckily he could see me today.

I really liked Dr. W and how he facilitated me donating my glasses forever to charity.  I've thanked  him almost every day in my mind when I wake up and can see without glasses.  How long has it been since that surgery?  I have no idea but I was living on Foothill when I had it done so it had to have been....10-12 years ago.  He was pleased with my vision and said the Lasiks was still a huge success.  But I digress.  What I didn't really feel right about Dr. W is I feel like he isn't especially thorough.  "Can you see the letters?  Perfect...even if you have to squint.  You are fine...see you in a year."  I always felt he likes the "cosmetic" part of Ophthalmology then the eye disease part.  Anyway....

Today, he looked at my eye with that irritating slit lamp thing.  Almost immediately, he declared I do have a small cataract.  And he said my eye was super dry.  He explained that your eye tears when it is dry but it is a mucus and not the tears you need to mix together to make healthy tears.  So although I had all my fingers and toes crossed I would come out of radiation unscathed, it simply isn't so.  Both things I was concerned about happened.  Damaged tear gland leading to permanent dry eye and a cataract.  I'm not very happy but you can't say Dr. C didn't warn me.  So I bought the night goop and the daily eye drops  on my way out of the hospital today to use from now on to forever eternity.

I go back to Dr. W in 3 months to have my eye dilated and he will see what is going on then.  Looks like more surgery may be in my future.  Shit....Damn....Piss.....Hell!

As a special treat, here is a photo my eye status as of earlier this week.  Makes my eye hurt just to look at it.  You can see the red where they radiated.  It feels burnt but really it feels burnt from the inside...which I guess it is.  One more week of intensity and then it should start healing.  I'm still not wearing makeup hardly ever and when I do, I'm very sparing with it.  It seems to really irritate my skin and my eye.  My eyebrows are quite hairy but I noticed today, the right one is white.  I can't wait to pluck and color but that will be about a month or so longer.