It’s not unusual for victims of CRVO (Central Retinal Vein Occlusion) to permanently lose useful vision in the affected eye. Four weeks ago, I couldn’t read a thing with my left eye (I couldn’t read road signs even if I walked right up to them). Straight lines appeared wavy, and everything had pinkish-gray pallor. And I had little reason to think it would improve.
But, over the last two or three weeks, it’s gotten dramatically better. Currently the vision in my damaged left eye is almost as good as my healthy right eye (this is possible only because the left used to be the much sharper of the two.) There’s still a slight color distortion, but that I can live with.
Upon being diagnosed, I’d been invited to take place in a research study at the hospital. But today I was sent home after a follow-up evaluation. I was told, “This is certainly not typical vision for someone that’s had a central occlusion.” There’s still a chance that I could suffer a setback, but right now it’s a huge relief to have the use of both eyes.
I’m certainly glad to hear that you recovered vision in that eye.
As to posting pictures of your own eyeballs from the inside, the images are striking, haunting, and a little disturbing. But I fear next you’ll be posting x-rays of your testicles and complaining about your prostate. And I will riposte with my own agues and ills.
Well, now that you mention it I do have a scan of my… nevermind.
I feel the same way about these images (that they are striking, haunting, and a little disturbing — not that they’ll serve as the first installment of increasingly graphical medical imagery.) And I’d think they were interesting even if they weren’t my retinas, and so I wanted to share them.
Well, that and to share the good news: that my previous entry on this subject (“Ischemia”) turned out to be unnecessarily dark.