Keratoconus

Just thought I'd catch everyone up on what's going on with Zander's eyes. They've been bugging him for a long time, we knew he had an astigmatism and they're perpetually dry, but his prescription changed YET AGAIN, so he went to the Dr.'s down at Excel Eye Center in Provo. Really good eye care center, and his sister works there. Double bonus. They were more thorough than the other dr.'s that he's been to, and discovered that he has keratoconus, which means that his cornea's (the clear, outer lining of the eye) are really weak, and could potentially rupture.

So today he's going to go get his tear ducts plugged, to help his chronic dry eye problems, and tomorrow he is going in for a procedure new to the US called corneal crosslinking. They'll remove the outermost layer of his cornea, then apply a series of riblofavin drops to his eyes, followed by some fairly intensive UV light stuff. This will rebuild his cornea so that it is strong and normal. He'll have to wear a bandage contact lens for a couple of days, and he'll be sensitive to light for a while, but this should fix most of his eye problems. He'll still have the estigmatism, since that's a problem with his lens, but this could very well fix most of his vision problems, and he may not need glasses after this.