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Thinking of you and waiting to hear how your visit went.

Really appreciate all your information. And here is another interesting one. Good 'ol Richardson is out there! The talking point is

....... NEW REALISM ......

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1674279/posts

N.M. governor: America needs 'new realism'
AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/29/06 | Barry Massey - ap

Posted on 07/29/2006 10:08:21 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

OK, I'm back and here's the story.

My cornea in my right eye is failing, but we won't schedule the transplant quite yet. That does mean that at least I wasn't wrong about what was going on, which is actually a relief. He wants to try and stretch out the time before we do a new transplant. He's got me on a new ointment and drops for a month to see if we can slow the progression. Basically this is over the counter stuff that attempts to get my eye to "weep" some fluid by drawing it out with osmosis, thus lowering the internal pressure and lessening one of the factors pushing the cornea to change.

So now I have to do this ointment at night and drops every 10 minutes for the first hour I'm up and then the same every 10 minutes regimen with the drops if my eye starts to get cloudy or the vision changes noticeably during the day.

The expectation is that the vision will continue to deteriorate, but hopefully we can slow that down. My surgeon wouldn't give me any projection until we see how this works, but my expectation is that we'll do the transplant sometime near the end of the year.

Again, as things go, today was a good day. If he'd told me it wasn't what I thought it was then I was worried that it would be something entirely new and, maybe, worse. I've been through a variation on this 3 times over the last 26 years, so I have a good idea of what to expect. They've also gotten lots better at all of it, so on the whole I feel better than I did before seeing him.

We'll have to see how well I can live with the reduced vision in one eye again. Hopefully I won't start getting the headaches all the time like I did around the time of the cataract surgery a few months ago. I don't know whether it will have any impact on my participation here, thought it is probably a good idea for me to cut back on reading and writing quite so much. I know my boss is going to be just thrilled at this news, but he's been very understanding through all of this. After all, I give him one handicapped person on his roster to count against his equal opportunity goals. <g>