Friday, 21 August 2009
I turn 34 today. Anti-climactic.
It's five weeks post-surgery. My right eye still continues to heal. It's been dry and irritable all week long. There is improvement from last week: Last week, reading street signs was blurred with my right eye. There was still enough ghosting where the lettering was not coming in clearly. This week, the lettering on signs and license plates has come into focus. I'm still seeing some ghosting, but things are slowly but surely sharpening up. It's also becoming easier to sit at my computer at work throughout the day. Not completely headache free, but easier. My vision fluctuates throughout the day. It goes in and out of focus when my eyes are tired. Mornings are the worst. Right after I wake up I apply the cocktail of Lotomax and Restasis. The combination makes my vision blurry. It takes a good 45 minutes for that to absorb and for my vision to click back into place. The artificial tears continue to work wonders. I'm now applying them almost exclusively to my right eye. My left eye feels and looks completely normal now.
One very nice bonus to all of this is that I have not yet had to start taking allergy medicine again. Not only are my eyes clear and uninflamed, but I'm not sneezing or otherwise reacting to allergies. I'm hoping that this is a permanent development!
Friday, August 21, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Day 29 - 4 Weeks
Thursday, 13 August 2009
I had a follow-up appointment with the doctor this past Monday (the 10th). My left eye is almost healed 100%. It's all smoothed over and producing tears normally again. My vision is terrific... out of my left eye. Left eye is 20/20.
The doctor still saw spots and rough patches on my right eye. The healing line that was there 2 weeks ago is all but gone, but the healing is still ongoing. These spots and rough spots happen to be right smack in the center of my eye, right over the pupil. So while my vision is markedly improved from 2 weeks ago, it's not yet clear. There's still some haze caused by the rough patches diffusing the light. It causes ever so slight ghosting. It means that I have 20/30 vision in my right eye, but with effort.
The first few seconds after I put artificial tears in my right eye, everything sharpens into crystal clarity. That's because the liquid fills in those rough patches and my cornea is all smoothed over for that brief instant in time. It's frustrating. It's been a month since the surgery, and this right eye is taking it's time healing up. It doesn't yet produce enough tears to be comfortable. It dries out very rapidly. And there's still some tenderness and sensitivity, especially after a long day.
I keep waiting for the morning that I wake up and see clearly with both eyes. It'll come, I'm sure, but it's certainly taking a long time getting there.
I had a follow-up appointment with the doctor this past Monday (the 10th). My left eye is almost healed 100%. It's all smoothed over and producing tears normally again. My vision is terrific... out of my left eye. Left eye is 20/20.
The doctor still saw spots and rough patches on my right eye. The healing line that was there 2 weeks ago is all but gone, but the healing is still ongoing. These spots and rough spots happen to be right smack in the center of my eye, right over the pupil. So while my vision is markedly improved from 2 weeks ago, it's not yet clear. There's still some haze caused by the rough patches diffusing the light. It causes ever so slight ghosting. It means that I have 20/30 vision in my right eye, but with effort.
The first few seconds after I put artificial tears in my right eye, everything sharpens into crystal clarity. That's because the liquid fills in those rough patches and my cornea is all smoothed over for that brief instant in time. It's frustrating. It's been a month since the surgery, and this right eye is taking it's time healing up. It doesn't yet produce enough tears to be comfortable. It dries out very rapidly. And there's still some tenderness and sensitivity, especially after a long day.
I keep waiting for the morning that I wake up and see clearly with both eyes. It'll come, I'm sure, but it's certainly taking a long time getting there.
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