I Have a (new) Hole in My Eye!

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Continuing the idea of modern day miracles from yesterday, today, in a matter of minutes, I have new hole in my eye.

Well, not really.

What happened is this.

I have (traumatic) glaucoma, which means that my eyes have a tendency to not drain as they should, resulting in excessive pressure. Not a good thing! For years now, I've been on a combination of eye drops to keep the pressure under control.

Then, last week, my Doctor mentioned that we might go another route, using a laser to enlarge the hole that drains the fluid from my eye.

Wow, this sounds like just the ticket, so I agreed.

And today, in a matter of minutes, it was done.

Can you imagine something like this even 50 years ago? In a few weeks we'll check the progress and if all looks good, I'll have the other eye done, and hopefully, no more eye drops!

And even though my eye was a bit sore, I managed to take a few shots with my iPhone on the way home (from a moving car, so bear with me).

This was a really beautiful tree outside the hospital.
It looked like a Christmas tree
that had lost all its' needles,
but still had a tons of round Christmas decorations
hanging from its' boughs
(click to enlarge)

And this was taken
as we were driving "over the hill"
from San Jose to Santa Cruz

That's it for today!