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They were supposed to do my wife's that way too but she cannot lay perfectly flat due to neck fusion.I asked the doctor what caused my issue. Basically, he called it old white man's eye disease. In mostly our cases here it's old man something problem.
In the old days a cornea transplant was not simple surgery. Today, they take a slice of someone's cornea, put it behind your cornea. Put an air bubble to hold it against your cornea till it attaches. About 3 days resting on your back. Also did the cataract at the same time. Only 1 eye at a time. In the morning, out the afternoon. And a cornea transplant does not get rejected because there is no blood in that area. Came out with perfect vision, wore glasses since 3rd grade.
We were so lucky to get a cutting edge ophthalmologist, Marian Macsai, who took out her "bad" cells and harvested "good" cells from the periphery and transplanted them. We also had an off use eye drop from Japan that multiplies the cells. Amazing results! We were so lucky!!