#rareeyes

i told myself I would write every week, friday to be exact but as we know that’s not how life works. 
As soon as i decided to start doin things I love i feel like i was hit by a heavy burden. i went to the eye doctor last week thinking it will just be a quick check up but still knowing in the back of my mind this could be “THAT” appointment.
It was that appointment. my right eye is so deformed they couldn’t even get a picture nor an accurate reading on my cornea. with that being said it is time for me to do the crosslinking now or basically never! i say never because my right eye is so severe that if i dont get the crosslinking now then i will have to have a cornea transplant. im not a fan of the recovery time and all i think of the movie “THE EYE”

 

long story short im getting the crosslinking 


Crosslinking is a outpatient procedure that drops riboflavin drops(vitamin B3) consistently for an allotted time in the eye and sealed with a ultraviolet light


Last year in the mid section of my nursing career I realized my “glasses” weren’t working... AT ALL. It seemed some days were better than others.

Yes I knew I had KC but I jus didn’t have guidence and wasn’t prepared to what was about to come

On this particular day we were reading blood pressures manually. Im sure everybody has seen one of these before they are call sphygmomanometer (yea is stupid lol)

When using these u measure by the first and last heartbeat and that’s how u get the pressure.. I can hear extremely well I say it’s due to being legally blind but who knows. So I could hear the beats perfectly clear but u guessed it I couldn’t see the damn numbers to save my life or my patients for this matter.. it was only practice relax! I told a couple of my classmates whom I jus met anyway so they didn’t believe me I mean u can’t look at somebody wit KC and tell I don’t even think they know what it is as much as I told them 🤷🏾‍♀️

I went home contiplating my life my career I’ve always wanted to be in health care! I was devistated! I jus researched and prayed and meditated and researched and meditated and prayed! Depression set in again... people around me that I loved brushed over me always saying “I can’t see” or “I can’t see that foreal it’s hard”

One night like the night I made this tumblr I found a speacilist jus up typing and Dr. Brad Feldman from Philadelphia eye associates is my cornea speacilist Dr. Justin Sherman is my resident ophthalmologist speacilist in contacts!

Long story short I guess today didn’t start with a bad memory but a reassuring one! I graduate 🤞🏾 in December due to covid probably longer but at least my book work will be done!

I wrote this without my contacts sorry for errors 🤷🏾‍♀️ does anybody else close their blind eye to type on their phone!?

Also if you have crystals I hope you charged them last night ima bring my out tonight as well 💫

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