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gmgn. eye is a bit swollen and highly sensitive to light (mf hurts like hell) but other than that..the doc says everything looks ok. few more days of extreme care until the inflammation reduces + the corneal tissue and epithelium fully heals.

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left eye’s procedure is finally scheduled for tomo afternoon. no screen time for a bit. see y’all in a few days.

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15:10 • 19 Oct 2023

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the number of times I had to tell (and remind) my family ‘i can’t see clearly’ or ‘can you read that out loud? i can’t read’ or ‘i can’t see that far’ or ‘bringer it closer so i can see’ in the past 5 days has been humbling beyond belief.

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5:10 • 22 Oct 2023

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if you see any mistakes in my photo edits for the next 2-3 months, no u didn't. cool?

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13:38 • 23 Oct 2023

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we did it. left eye’s corneal tissue healed well this past month.

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22:18 • 20 Nov 2023

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idk how to explain the magnitude of relief, happiness and grief i felt all at once just a little while ago.

i looked through the viewfinder of my camera with my right eye after 10+ years. i froze for a few seconds before i could process that I am seeing everything so clearly…

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11:43 • 16 Nov 2023

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context: i had to adapt my muscle memory to shift to my left eye to see through the viewfinder 10+ years ago when i found out my right eye’s cornea was deforming.

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11:43 • 16 Nov 2023

for those of you who are reading about this part of my life for the first time, if you're curious what's up here is the tweet where i shared about what happened a long time ago.

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@priyankap_patel

Hi, I’m Priyanka and I’m a photographer who has Post LASIK Ectasia and here’s my story.

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19:04 • 15 Mar 2021

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About the bokeh shape I talked about in this post, this is the closest sample I could find of how a single point of light source looks like when you have keratoconus or post lasik ectasia. The second photo is what I drew years ago with my left eye closed & thats what I see.

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22:37 • 15 Mar 2021

i have seen the Golden Gate Bridge a lot of times in the past, but to truly appreciate the scale of this magnificent structure, Fort Point is the place to be so I finally decided to go there in the last week of my trip.

as I stood there in complete awe of the bridge, watching the waves crash at its feet, its massive scale reminded me of the grandeur of life itself. it was then that I realised that I would probably meet my nephew about ~30 more times in my lifetime, and it was scary to realise that my parents would get fewer chances than i.

my mind went into a spiral of thoughts leaving me wondering how many more family dinners we would all have together, if I would ever be chilling with my grad school friends in our usual hangout spots. it hit me like a truck and made me appreciate what my parents had gone through - what every parent goes through when their child moves away.

since then, i've made a conscious effort to overcome my introversion and prioritise spending time with the people I love rather than bailing out of such opportunities. i am grateful for this shift in perspective because it prepared me for the challenges during the pandemic, when it became difficult to see friends and family for extended periods of time.

life can seem formidable and everlasting, but the depressing math of it is that time is fleeting and really fast at that.

for me, this photo captures the enormity of life in the transience of time, reminding me to cherish the handful of moments i have with our loved ones and make the most of it.

i remember it being this hazy days after undergoing corneal cross-linking in the left eye in october 2023. that kind of woke me tf up and i swung out of my bed to check in the mirror. sadly, i couldn’t even look in the mirror clearly enough to see what’s wrong with my eye. i started panicking because vision in my right eye is already extremely bad so the idea of something going wrong with the left one too, meant i couldn’t see anything clearly.

i video called my friend and asked her to see if she could see something in my eye because it was impossible for me to look at it myself but she couldn’t really see over the phone either. i then called my mom and started sobbing without even saying a word bc the feeling of not being able to see was very scary(sorry i scared u mom&dad). after i told them what's happening, my dad immediately called my doctor back in india and asked me to call him right away.

i’ll spare you all more reading so i’ll fast forward a bit. after lots of calls with the doc, family and friends, worried and calling to check-in on me — i’m nearly 4 hours into putting the prescribed eye drops and the scratchy feeling has subsided. the hazyness has also reduced by 40ish percent.

tldr: i’m doing okay. less anxious. sometimes more. it comes in waves if i try to think of the moment when i literally fell to the floor crying bc i was so scared that i couldn’t see clearly. also for those of you who only know me from warpcast, you can read about my experiences with post lasik ectasia here in my twitter post from 2021.

i’m going to take it easy today. tomorrow’s a big day for me on warpcast so i want to be well rested. hint: get your warps ready.

if you still need me, i’m okay to voice chat. honestly, i could use the distraction so don't even hesitate.

gmgn and thank u for reading all the way through. 🥹🫶

-priyanka

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