{"id":467,"date":"2020-03-22T18:26:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T00:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jwenzel.net\/?page_id=467"},"modified":"2020-03-22T19:58:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T01:58:25","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jwenzel.net\/?page_id=467","title":{"rendered":"About The Author"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am Jeremiah Wenzel. I was diagnosed with Keratocnus initially June 27, 2016 and confirmed at the specialty clinic July 11, 2016. Mysteriously I managed to live most of my life with my left eye suffering from Keratocnus to the point that by the time it was detected i needed a cornea transplant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am very into computers and all things Technology and it is my hope that I eventually get employment as a Server\/Network Administrator. This blog is self hosted and I manage the operations of the underlying server that this blog runs on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My hobbies involve gaming and building computers and liquid cooling loops for computers. I have two cats which I enjoy messing around with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before I was to undergo my cornea transplant I decided to create this blog to document my experiences regarding dealing with Keratoconus and the recovery from the operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is Keratoconus?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keratoconus is an eye disease where the collagen in your cornea fails to maintain the structure of the cornea. As a result your cornea begins to buldge in a cone shame resulting in the thinning of the cornea. This typically starts to happen during your puberty stage of life but can happen at a younger or older age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What are the symptoms?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The symptoms of Keratoconus can include<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Gradually decreasing vision<\/li><li>Astigmatism that only gets worse<\/li><li>Halo&#8217;s surrounding sources of light<\/li><li>Light\/sun sensitivity<\/li><li>Light&#8217;s streaking<\/li><li>Seeing double\/ghost images<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Jeremiah Wenzel. I was diagnosed with Keratocnus initially June 27, 2016 and confirmed at the specialty clinic July 11, 2016. Mysteriously I managed to live most of my life with my left eye suffering from Keratocnus to the point that by the time it was detected i needed a cornea transplant. I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-467","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jwenzel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jwenzel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jwenzel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jwenzel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jwenzel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.jwenzel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/www.jwenzel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/467\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jwenzel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}