Went to the eye doctor today for my six month checkup. Its not that I'm a freak when it comes to my eyes but I've got a growth on my right eye that has been creeping across for several years and there is a need to keep and "eye" on it. Its call a pterygium. Don't really know how to pronounce the thing other than it doesn't sound much like its spelled. They don't know really what causes these little things. Some speculate that UV light can act as fertilizer for the growth while others think there is some defect in the gene pool that might be the root cause. Great, another gene defect. Someday I'm going to want to talk to the ancestors about what it was they they did to mess things up for the rest of us. Regardless, these pterygiums make the eye look unsightly from the outside, kind of like Sammy Davis Jr's fake eye, and can eventually impair vision from the inside. The removal process doesn't sound that appealing either. They give you a general relaxant then stick the eye ball itself with some kind of stuff that makes it go numb and prevents it from looking around at whats going on. Then with some kind of precision instrument they scrape (they used that word which really doesn't seem like a good word to go along with "eye") the thing off, flap over some other part of the eye, add some growth hormone jell and then give you a pirate patch to wear for a couple weeks.
Gratefully only one pterygium for two eyes, if all else fails I'll have a backup.
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