Grey

I haven’t written anything in a few days for the site so this is going to be a short explanation and update. I had to go to the eye doctor twice this week for pre-ops and to refill my eye drop prescriptions for the pds. The flaking is pretty much stopped at this point thanks to the drops but with the final surgery I’ll be able to stop them entirely and hopefully the amber in my eyes will start to dissipate, the doctor is not convinced that the amber will go away. The interesting thing I did learn, my eyes aren’t green and apparently never were; my eyes are grey.

My doctor was doing some diagnostics and commented on how he doesn’t get to see grey eyes very often and liked looking at the darks and lights in the corneal pattern. It was cool, I got to ask why they looked so light green before in my older pictures and childhood. He told me it’s light diffusion and that when the ptosis, caused by the other surgeries, is fixed I’ll probably be able to see the grey more clearly. It makes me feel a bit better about the amber in my eyes now, it’s cool I at least got some uncommon light brown instead of dark brown.

The reason my eyes were always green is because I have almost no pigment in the outer parts of my eyes, they’re slate grey. He showed me on a little screen what they would look without the heterochromia, they look like new sidewalk pavement. The center has a high amount of light pigment, it looks sort of like light honey. My eyes then transition so abruptly between brown and grey that they’re almost entirely light dependent. When the light is cold and dim my iris gets larger and the amber disappears, they become dark grey since there’s nothing for light to reflect off in my iris. In warm lighting because my grey has so light color the amber becomes much more prevalent and the entire eye becomes honey colored. It’s honestly really cool to think that my eyes can be different in the morning and the evening.

I’m trying to look on the bright side, my eyes are different than I thought and maybe some amber isn’t so bad?