Hello everyone, I am currently a SWO O-2 in the Navy. I've been on LIMDU since last August. I am starting to feel like I am purposely being kept from PEB. I was diagnosed late July with Keratoconus (my cornea is progressively turning into a cone) and as a result I can't see well. I have diplopia and light sensitivity. Glasses essentially do not work for me any more. I was taken off my ship in August and put in LIMDU and I was told that they would try to fit me with scleral lenses and get me back on deployment. Back in August I thought that sounded right, but as I was talking to a few of my friends that have been in the navy a lot longer than me, they were surprised that I would be returning to SWO simply due to my horrible vision and my reliance on having contact lenses. Every time I ask about whether or not I am allowed on a ship no one answers me, and when I ask for a timeline no one can give it to me. I've been fitted for scleral lenses four different times now, with no success. I had Crosslinking surgery a month ago, and the Airforce Ophthalmologist who did the surgery said that almost all activity duty personnel that get the surgery go into a med board, since the surgery basically is the DOD saying that your eyes are in bad shape. When I asked the navy about it, they just shrugged and said that they hadn't heard that. I was also told that I can't put in for a PEB, and that I need to wait for my PCM to put me in for it.
The more I learn about this process the more I feel like I am being deliberately kept in the dark. Can anyone give me advice on what to believe.
Diagnoses: Unstable Bilateral Keratoconus, (OD: -9.5, OS: -6.5), Monocular Diplopia, Photophobia, nyctalopia, Idiopathic Hypersomnia.
The more I learn about this process the more I feel like I am being deliberately kept in the dark. Can anyone give me advice on what to believe.
Diagnoses: Unstable Bilateral Keratoconus, (OD: -9.5, OS: -6.5), Monocular Diplopia, Photophobia, nyctalopia, Idiopathic Hypersomnia.