Good news… again! Just had my 6-month appointment with Dr. Opth and he’s declared my eyes clear of any problems. Yea! I’m now 2.5 years “in recovery.”

I thought we’d move into annual appointments at this point but Dr. Opth has decided he’d like to keep the 6-month appointments going for now. Since we caught the melanoma early originally, we’ve had good results. He’d like to make sure that we stay on top of it since recurrence rates aren’t really known.

Dr. Opth dilated my eyes to “see behind the eyeball” since this cancer can also appear on the backside of the eyeball (weird, huh!). I don’t mind him looking but it takes a long time for my eyes to get back to normal. Sometimes the dilation feels like I’ve been keeping my eyes really wide open and it ends up making my eyes feel so tired. Oh well, he only does the dilation once a year so I can’t really complain. However, I am careful to make my appointments late in the day so I don’t have to worry about going back to work.

I know several of you have made comments on this blog about my situation or your own. For those of you still going through this, I hope your results end up being as good as mine have been thus far!