Today marks my one year anniversary for my  cornea transplant. The date of said cornea transplant was January 23, 2017.

A month ago I was anticipating having two sutures remaining. However to my surprise i had all four remaining sutures removed thus making my recovery quicker.

While it would appear that I may have lost out on the cornea lottery as the level of astigmatism is higher then my doctor would have liked. At least my vision is still actually usable and can still be corrected with glasses or contacts as well as avoiding a tear in the cornea which would have meant I would have had to take the full thickness cornea transplant and would have had a worse outcome then a partial thickness transplant would have provided.

My next big milestone will be when it becomes time to get off of my anti rejection eye drops as at that point i’ll probably declaring myself fully recovered from my cornea transplant.

In six days it will mark the one year mark since my cornea transplant. My vision of the eye may not have been what I have liked but it is still far better than before and it evaded the real possibility of the cornea tearing.

My appointment was today and things went well. The vision test portion of my left eye was showing a decent improvement despite thinking my vision of the left eye didn’t seem to change. It went a lot better then my last test.

Furthermore I was expecting to have two sutures removed leaving two behind for my next appointment. It turns out the doctor seemed fit to remove all four sutures remaining in the eye.

My astigmatism is a bit higher then the doctor was hoping for but its not surprising given that cornea transplants and cpu’s have this in common. Your operating on a lottery system. In the cpu world each individual cpu can be a little different in terms of ability to overclock due to the quality fluctuations of silicon. This means that some cpu’s can be overclocked more then others.

This relates to cornea transplants as only your original cornea was made for your eye specifically and every other cornea being transplanted can leave different results depending on how close of a match you happen to get.

Aside from my 4 times a day for 3 days for my antibiotic drops my anti rejection drops are reduced to 1 time a day again as well. Overall healing is going smoothly and getting closer to the edge of the time frame where the majority of cornea rejections occur (while rejection can happen anytime they tend to happen within the first 18 months)

Tomorrow 12:30 pm will be my first Eye appointment of the year.

I anticipate having 2 more sutures removed. I will be down to 2 remaining sutures after this. Things appear to be going smoothly still.

My next appointment is coming up next week. I expect to have two more sutures removed.

It is also my first eye appointment of the year and I will be down to two remaining sutures after the appointment.