Seeing Clearly

Busy times, creating a web site for classes, but it seemed to grow as I included all sorts of interesting things and it is taking forever, but will be worth it in the end.

Meanwhile I have also been quantifying my vision. Needed new glasses as the old ones literally fell apart and as part of the process I requested a field test to analyze some changes I had noticed over the last 12 months - a reduction in peripheral vision. Essentially it seemed only the rods were involved as it was noticeable only in light so low that no color is visible.

These are photographs of my retina. They reveal that I have tilted disks. That is a distortion of the eyeball That can be seen from the large oval shaped yellow area. You can see that the blood vessels do not meet as they would in a normally shaped eye. This is a congenital condition which in itself should not cause problems beyond interesting photographs and short sightedness. It is possible that the vision problem is due to the shape of my eye as I age and purely a result ofthe tilted disk, never the less it shouldn't do that so I had an MRI today as the opthamologist investigates further.

Comments

[Keith Sherwood]

Hi Tony,

Hope you're not having too much trouble with your eyes. We haven't forgotten you, just seem to do things a lot slower now (turned 70 in june)so don't get around as much.

Kindest possible regards

Keith