Category: Eyes

Watercolour and pen painting of an eye with a cornea transplant - showing the stitches

Cornea Transplant Stitches – My Painting Progression

Stitch Removal – a zig zag story Today marks four years since my full cornea transplant (Penetrating Keratoplasty due to advanced Keratoconus). A time where

Close up photo on eye with stitches 2 years after transplant and remains of subconjunctival haemorrhage

My Cornea Transplant – 2 Year Update (and How to get in touch with you Donor Family)

An Update 2 Years On – who’d’ve thought?! Now 2 years to the day following my transplant – 21st June 2021! So difficult to say

Photo showing my eye with tears that are pooling on my contact lens

A Contact Lens ‘Sandwich’!

I’m trying out something new! I’ve coined it ‘sandwiching’! It was time for my appointment with my optician during the week. She is keeping a

Eye photo - corneal transplant - 4 months on with stitches

Eye Eye – an update – Living with Vision Loss

It’s been almost four months since my corneal transplant operation. Time for an update! Not that there’s a awful lot to tell… So I’ll talk

Close up of Full Corneal Transplant day 3, Continuous running stitch visible - like a zig zag star around the cornea. The cornea looks rough - not shiny, clear photograph of cornea transplant. 23rd June 2019

My Corneal Transplant – The Early Days [with update one year on]

Herein lies a wee bit of a story about my personal experience of a full corneal transplant [penetrating keratoplasty (pk)]. I wouldn’t call it a

Seeing is Believing – my Journey Through Keratoconus

I’m not very sure what I’m supposed to be doing in the last few days before my corneal transplant… Preparations I’ve tidied up a fair