November 21 Photo of Ed's Eye

Photo of Ed's eye from November 21. At this point, Ed has been back on the oral Voriconazole and the 1% Voriconazole eye drops for 5 weeks. You can see that the fungus has retreated. The corneal graft appears as an opaque rounded (almost looks like a thick contact lens) on the upper left of the eye.
At this point, he just keeps taking Voriconazole 200 mg twice a day and the eye drops every hour while awake. He gets blood tests monthly to check if the drug is harming his body. We see the eye surgeon every 2 weeks and the infectious disease doctor about every month.
Light sensitivity from the anti-fungal drug keeps Ed from driving at night.
Again, we are so grateful for this medical care and treatment.

October 24 Eye Photo Shows Fungus

October 24 Photo of Ed's Eye
See the yellow fungus reaching down under the corneal graft. The sclera is inflamed. Ed has been taking oral Voriconazole for 1 week when this photo was taken by the eye surgeon. I must say that this photo looks like a dragon's eye from a sci fi movie.
The deep yellow colour of the fungus is really easy to see in this photo. The fungus is not worse from last week when it was discovered that it was growing again, and so we hope that the anti-fungal drug is working. On the bad side, Ed is experiencing eye sensitivity to light again and eye ache sometimes. The vision is blurred in the affected eye, of course, and this probably won't change until Ed is off the anti-fungal drug.
The infectious disease doctor says that the fungus spores probably were 'hiding' in the graft's stitches or in a little bubble of cells under the graft. They will hide in places where the blood supply is poor.
This means several more weeks, or even months, on the Voriconazole drug, as long as Ed's system can handle the side effects.