of the eye interest me and there is a good possibility in todays society that when I do begin to practice optometry that I will run across and possibly even diagnose a case of CMV retinitus. My father is currently practicing optometry and he told me that he has one patient that is HIV positive and that she has been diagnosed with CMV and she is on specific drugs to prevent the development of CMV retinitus. My father is in continued contact with the ladies HIV doctor to ensure that he eyesight is not damaged. Currently the lady is not showing any signs of retinitus, but there is no assurance that she never will. There is a good chance that when I enter optometry school I will study CMV as a cause for retinitus. My father did not study CMV while he was in optometry school but AIDS had not even been discovered during the time he was in school.I find the information I have found about CMV retinitus to be very interesting. I have always been interested in eyes and how they work so obviously I am interested in learning more about diseases that can possibly take the wonderful gift of sight away from us. The information I found included some photographs of the retina of infected individuals and I found this very interesting as well. Overall, my opinion of the time I spent researching is very good. It was time well spent....
