My Optic Cavity 012110.MPG

This is a 3D map of one of my retinas! This is why I always have a camera in my pocket. The scan is something they do to see if pressure in the eye is causing a deepening of the optic nerve cavity in the back of the eye...a sign of glaucoma and the death of neurons causing eventual blindness. It was just part of my eye exam and will be a baseline to compare future scans with. I'm just amazed we have clear vision with all those blood vessels, floaters, 108 million photoreceptor cells (among a gazillion other support cells), etc...then for the brain to overlay the two images from the gazillion cells almost instantaneously, flip the dual images from the eyes, and THEN to make sense of what is being seen, while directing thoughts, muscles, and/or memory storage at the same time...it would seem we would have headaches all the time! Amazing engineering...God does good work!..Oh, and if you haven't had your eyes checked for glaucoma in over two years...shame on you!!!! Protect these amazing devices called your eyes!!!!

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