For most of 2020 and 2021, the vision in my left eye was going down quickly. The cornea transplant was a failure, and a second surgery was risky. By January of 2022, I could detect light out of my left eye, but not much more.

During this time, my right eye's vision was going, albeit much more slowly. Glaucoma had taken a lot of my peripheral vision over the years, and every six months we charted how much smaller my vision field was. A year ago I was told my cataract was bad and was going to keep getting worse, but the left eye was a bigger priority, so it was a very stressful race.

By the time my left eye was useless, my right eye had a very small circle of very blurry vision (which could not be corrected any better than 20/100) so it required lots of magnification to read anything.

It wasn't much, but I was used to it. $1

Finally, I was able to schedule a cornea transplant for the left eye. That was a couple of weeks ago. Now I can see well enough out of it to tell time and can even read very large print on TV. It's so weird.

Weirder still -- it turns out the right eye was the way it was because of an inflamed retina. After a few weeks of a ton of steroids, not only is it way less blurry, but my vision field is much larger.

I went outside last night, and could SEE, even though the sun was down. $1 because I kew I was going to regain some vision, but this is more than I could have hoped for and way more than any of my doctors expected.

I know it's still touch and go with the transplant -- and that the right eye still has a cataract --- but I feel like I won some sort of unexpected lottery and don't quite know what to do with myself.

TLDR: In 3 weeks I went form 5% vision in one eye to 50+% in both.

UPDATE: Thanks everyone for all the positive messages. I was honestly really scared to type this.

Four of the last five years have been a slow and steady decline in vision, and the last 12-18 months has been scarily quick vision loss; so the amount of improvement over the last 10 days has been astonishing.

Add to that the discovery of the cause/solution to the vision problems in the OTHER eye, in the same month!! Sudden vision improvement in both eyes happening at the same time just seems unreal. If this was happening in a tv show, I would yell at the screen and call the writers lazy and stupid.

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