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Take two - week 2

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:40:00 GMT

Just a quick update on my progress. The eye is coming along slowly, which is what it's supposed to do I guess. I saw Dr. M on Tuesday and she noted some progress and decrease in the haze from a week before. I need to remind myself to put tears in because my eye feels great. I really haven't felt any dryness or irritation since day four or so. I would put my vision in that eye at about what it was before surgery. So it's still a little blurry...little ghosting. But I've gotten so used to "monovision" that, most of the time it's not that noticeable.

Here we go again

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:16:00 GMT

I had my "enhancement" PRK procedure on my left eye yesterday. I expect the recovery to be even easier than the last time now that the element of uncertainty is all but gone. It's been 24 hours and I'm feeling pretty good. It's much better recovering with one good eye. So much so that if I had to do it all over again, I'd probably go one eye at a time. I drove to Dr. T's office this morning for the post-op checkup and all looks good. Dr. said that I'm healing very quickly and thought that's probably why I reverted in the first place.

I should be getting the bandage contact off next Tue. If the recovery goes the same as last time, I'll have some severe light sensitivity on Monday. That was probably the worst of the experience first time around. I have an eye patch to wear if it gets bad and am completely prepared for the pirate jokes. I'll post again in a couple days.

All I want for Christmas is 20/20

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:56:00 GMT

It's been a while since I've posted a recovery update, pretty much because I had to wait so long for the next step. In a nutshell, my left eye never really came around better than 20/50 vision. I saw Dr. T a couple months ago and he said if it didn't get better by December, he would do a touchup. Here we are...almost Christmas and it still isn't better. So I had to consider the whole monovision thing again. If I left well enough alone, I probably wouldn't need reading glasses later because of the nearsightedness in my left eye. But I've decided, again, to go under the laser and get this eye "dialed in" as Dr. T puts it. I'll be going in for pre-op on Wed and the surgery on Jan. 18th. Stay tuned!

Merry Christmas!