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It's been 4 almost 5 years since my vision has been 100%.
If this stops the internal hemorrhaging he will do Cadillac surgery on it and should be 100% like my right eye is now. 20/25 as good as it has been since HS.

Vision has slowly been getting worse despite the treatments since I stepped on that nail and got the MRSA infection.
We getting really really depressed about it until they did the cadillac surgery on my right eye and got it to 20/25 like my eyes were since HS.
My left eye has been be getting worser even after they replaced the eye juice the first time.
After he lasered all the bleedy places this time he dropped my eye pressure really low so if there was anything that would pop or bleed it would an nothing leaked. Then he replaced the juice, put some air in to help hold the retina to the back of my eye while healing and some Avastin, the drug that beefs up the blood veins and keeps them from swelling and leaking. I sure hope this got it all.

On my right eye he just monitors the swelling and it's up to 4 months between shots to keep the swelling of the veins and retina from happening.

What happens in retinopathy is the blood veins swell and leak. Where they leak it grows into new veins. Then either the swelling detaches the retina from the optic nerve, or the new veins end up covering and squeezing out all the vision cells. After the avastin treatments stop and reduce the veins to normal he lasers where new veins are forming to both stop the new veins and attach the retina to the back of the eye wth the scar tissue. He lasered 2500 spots in both eyes. The right eye was okay after that. Even though the left eye along with the right had stopped swelling, it has continued to get leaky places.
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