These are photos of my retinas taken at Pro Eyes Optometry located in the Route 60 Walmart on July 30, 2009.
I was going a wee bit apeshit about how cool it was to see my retinas. Dr. Tanguilig (who asked me to call him Arnold) asked, “Are you a geek? You can take them with you if you have a flash drive.” I didn’t, but my girlfriend had one in her purse. Then Arnold said, “I’m a geek too” conspiratorially but mainly to cover any offense he’d made since I didn’t react when he asked if I was a geek because I was too excited at the prospect of getting copies of these photos.
The slight twisty nature of the blood vessels in my retinas indicate that I have the beginning stages of problems associated with high blood pressure. You can see in my right retina where the pressure in the hard, dark artery is sort of squishing on the softer vein. But Arnold wasn’t too worried about it.
Now I want to go to more doctors and get more pictures of what it looks like inside me.
