Pterygium Revisited...

Since Judie has got her Thyroid under control, that is she is on hormones and the Thyroid is more or less dead. Radio Active Iodine treatment killed of the out of control Thyroid and the synthetic hormones are now prescribed and in control. This allows her to resume her eye treatments.

First visit back and the doctor says her Pterygium has returned and needs to be again removed. A Pterygium is a growth on the eye, on the outside of the eye ball but can distort the lens and disrupt good vision. And she has little to no vision in her right eye.

So the doctor removed the Pterygium last week. It is a painful operation but she was under some numbing so felt little if anything. Doctor said that she had the worst scar tissue he had seen and requested permission to take photos of it. And he was granted permission to do so. At any rate it was extensive and requires a donor patch to cover the removed area. That resulted in some few stitches, which are in Judie's case very irritating.

So she is suffering though with Vicoden ES for help. I also apply a salve, which is a combined antibiotic and Cortisone to enhance healing. She returns Wednesday and maybe they can remove the irritating stitch. If not, then another week of eye drops every 20 or 30 minutes and perhaps more healing salves or drops.

Once she gets by this then she can have PRK to help regain some vision. She also received a cancer treatment for the Pterygium, it is not a cancer but the treatment inhibits regrowth which is common (and has happened to her already). That topical drug should deter regrowth.

After the PRK, he says he can do no more for her. So we hope this does the trick this time.

Mean while she suffers through it all. In my case, they skipped PRK since my right eye was improving. Hopefully, with time my near vision will get a lot better. Right now it is 20/30 in the left eye and 20/50~30 in the right eye. The right eye is dominant so need it to read well. I can read the newspaper but with effort. I am told this is an excellent exercise for the nerves and will lead to better vision.

And we grow steadily older. . .