Left Details

These are the important parts of the eye charts from the November Appointment.

	Anterior is the outside of the cornea. this picture is an elevation map. the white outline you see is actually how the pupil appears while my eye is being scanned. as you can see in this picture my left eye is almost off the scale for their machine and this is what triggered the decision to transplant
	this is the posterior or back of my cornea. again this picture is an elevation map and again the white outline is how my pupil appears. and again as you can see I made their machine approach the limits
	this graph is of the thickness of my cornea. as you can see it is much thicker around the outside than in the middle. if you use the color chard on the right you can see that the thinnest point is somewhere in the 300's the thinness prevented any other option but transplant
	the numbers. here is where you can kind of quantify the problems I have with my left eye. the ASTIG measure in the top shows that I have a minimum of 52 d (diopters)) of astigmatism and a max of 60 the 3.0 MM ZONE is 3 millimeters from the middle of my eye and as you can see it is +/- up to 25 D which is a very large range. in the 5.0MM ZONE the Steep axis means how steep of a hill. imagine driving up a 47º hill this is why a rigid contact couldn't compensate. the last number of importance is the THINNEST this is the measure of the thickness of my cornea this is less than 50% of the thickness of my cornea at it's thickest

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