Vitreous Humour.

"Do you want to see your retinas?"Who can resist that question?  "Yes.  I totally do."They look like giant, back-lit pumpkins on the screen, and for a few seconds, I forget those pumpkins are actually my eyeballs, photographed just seconds prior.  "So these are the veins," he traced the photo with the computer's magnifying glass.  "And these are the arteries.  This part here is the optic nerve.  And this is your macula."(The macula looks a lot like a weird eyeball nipple.  But this is a thought I kept to myself, for awkwardnesses sake.)"And this web-looking part is where those cotton wool spots are.  And this light area, right near the macula?  That's the spot everyone watched during your pregnancy.""So that's my c-section spot, right?  The one that determined how I delivered?""Exactly."I paused, not sure how to ask my next question without it sounding too loaded.  "So do my eyes look like they belong to a diabetic?""No.  Twenty-something years with type 1?  These eyes look great.  And I'm happy to see that everything looks old ... none of these issues are new, and none of these bleeds are fresh.  I'm looking at an eye that is continuing to heal.  But if it came to determining whether or not you'd want to change medication levels for your blood pressure meds, or if you wanted to have another baby, that's a discuss...
Source: Six Until Me. - Category: Diabetes Source Type: blogs