Yay for going to the eye doctor

[DCColegrove]

I'll be 29 in June.

Kind of young for it...

But you will probably be fine...

And glasses are uber cool.

[mtechnik]

Sorry to read of the diagnosis Josh.

Hopefully soon you'll be accustomed to wearing glasses.

[James Crivellone]

glasses are cool :)

[Jand3rson]

I'll be 29 in June.

[DCColegrove]

Don't sweat it too much...

How old are you?

[Jand3rson]

For sure. The whole thing is just kind of scary to me. I've never had any kind of issues with my sight in the past, I've always had outstanding vision. But my left eye has been getting steadily worse, harder to see things far away, trouble seeing at night, and lots and lots of headaches. So it was time to go.

[YAN-3]

dude i feel for ya. i have whats called corneal erosion that i got from a metalic object when i was in Iraq last time. it sucks to have these problems at a young age, but what can we do ay? i wish you all the best and unlike my dumb a$$ do as the doctors say, to expedite things.

[Jand3rson]

So I finally decided to get my ass to the eye doctor today, as the vision in my left eye has been getting steadily worse over the last couple of years. Well, it turns out that not only do I have astigmatism in both eyes, really bad in the left one, my left eye is also suffereing from Keratoconus, which is put simply, the thinning of the cornea itself.

http://www.nkcf.org/

So starting tomorrow, I'll be wearing glasses, then I have to have more tests done Monday morning to evaluate how far progressed the condition is, and go back after 6 months of wearing glasses to see if it's still progressing, at which point I'll most likely need a rigid gas-permeable contact in that eye, or in the worst/rarest case, cornea transplant surgery. Let's hope it's not the latter.

Fun.