This is a sixth in a series of posts on my odyssey with a dilated eye. I’ve tagged all the posts in the series here. I was born legally blind in my right eye. At a certain point, my retina detached, my eye fully dilated, and I developed painfully high eye pressure. The good news…
This is a fifth in a series of posts on my odyssey with a dilated eye. I’ve tagged all the posts in the series here. So … I had a blind eye that decided to dilate. And then when I had it treated, it went bloodshot and painful and even more dilated. So I finally…
This is a fifth in a series of posts on my odyssey with a dilated eye. I’ve tagged all the posts in the series here. It’s funny how one problem can seem like a big deal, until another problem comes along and pushes the first problem onto the backburner. That’s especially true when the second…
This is a third in a series of posts on my odyssey with a dilated eye. I’ve tagged all the posts in the series here. On a Sunday evening, I found myself with a dilated eye in my blind eye that freaked me out. By the next Friday, I had in hand a prescription for pilocarpine…
This is a second in a series of posts on my odyssey with a dilated eye. I’ve tagged all the posts in the series here. So I found myself, unexpectedly, with a right eye (a blind eye) that had completely dilated, for reasons unknown, a few months after my retina had detached. After an emotional…
This is a first in a series of posts on my odyssey with a dilated eye. I’ve tagged all the posts in the series here. I was born with an optic nerve coloboma in my right eye. In mid-adulthood, that optic nerve detached. Because the vision was terrible to begin with, a retina specialist strongly…