>>43281526The other surgery is Cross linking collagen injection, which is just what it sounds like, getting a needle in your eye to fix the deteriorating colligen in the cornea. This does not fix what has already been damaged, it just prevents it from being damaged further.
So, the problem lies with the following.
"I need two very bad eyes to warrant taking a donor's tissue, and while there's an 80% chance of being cured, there's a 10% it'll just reoccur, and a 10% chance of rejection." I only have one really bad eye, and one that is getting to that point.
I'm not gonna lie, its straight up terrifying and awful, especially since there is a temporary "fix" in wearing prosthetic corneas, which are semi hard contacts that fit around the whole of my front eye. The problem is, I can only wear them for 6 hours a day, every other day, they are painful to put in and painful to take out, and the vision acuity from 20/800 --> 20/20 happen instantaenously, resulting in massive nausea and ultimately a sincere depression when it reverts after having to take them out.
It is not a fun disease by any stretch of the imagination, however it is something that I've become accustomed to.
I think I'll be fine, and I just have to bear the burden of a failing sense as I grow older, and wait until it has progressed enough to warrant corrective surgery that will most likely work.
