Annual Review Of My Eyeballs

If it's April, it's time for the annual Opto-Map!

Here's the retina of the right eye, showing the gray patch in the upper left corner where they spot-welded the retina with a laser back in 1994 in order to give it some integrity and strength.

Here's the retina of the left eye, showing the dramatic grey arc along the bottom. After the retina detached in 1994, they put a silicone band around the eyeball and applied liquid nitrogen onto the outside, in order to freeze-tack the retina back onto the back of the eyeball. Eighteen years later, the silicone band is still there! And eighteen years later, I can still see with my left eye!