PRK day 8

It’s now been about 8 days since the surgery. I’ve gone into the office the last two days as well as today, but have been unable to work full days. The fact that 99% of my job includes reading and writing on a computer screen has really sunk in. I can handle enough for a while, but my eyes get too fatigued and the doublevision/ghosting seems to increase over time.

Still, I’m not disappointed at all, as I continue to see improvements every day. I just wish they would start coming faster  I’m driving still, but try to keep my time on the road under ten minutes and within daylight hours. Yesterday I came home at lunch time and took an hour long nap, and my eyes were rejuvenated afterwards and I could work another 4 hours. Today, I skipped this rest period and went to lunch with the guys, but could only make it an hour into work afterwards before the fatigue made me pack up and head home.

As for vision – the right eye is doing better and the ghosting is less pronounced but still blurry to an extent. Large fonts are a must, but they’re starting to clear up to the point that, come Monday, I’m hoping to be able to take the screen size down a notch. Things like this are cause for celebration with my new eyes, as I edge ever closer towards that (fingers crossed) 20/20 vision I’m hoping for.

The left eye is worse and the ghosting/double vision is more significant. Today I realized that with just my left eye open, if I focused through the page I was reading, the two images resolved themselves. This is more of a chore than it’s worth, as I think I overworked my eye muscles doing this from time to time today.

Vision seems to be best when the eyes are thoroughly moistened. I’ll usually use the re-wetting drops and close my eyes for a while, and things are much clearer when I open them back up. For a little while, at least. After several minutes, things start blurring up and separating again.

So in all, I’m happy with the progress so far. There are some blogs that I’ve read of people who take weeks to get to such a point. I have no doubt that in time, the ghosting and double vision will go away and I’ll forget what it was like to ever have this screwy eyesight. The sooner that day comes, the better.

PRK day 4

It's been a total of four days since my PRK surgery. I haven't been able to post any updates because of the insane light sensitivity of my eyes, I could not navigate my PC to save myself. 

The first 2 days were very rough, I'm not gonna lie. There is nothing you can do but sleep. I had some audiobooks and podcasts prepared for the recovery process but they proved very difficult to listen to as I was so focused on my eyes throbbing, there is a constant irritation that is present even when my eyes felt the most soothed from the eyedrops. I was only given enough painkillers for the first day in hindsight I should have kept some more for the follow up day.

Approximately 15 hours after the surgery I had a follow up appointment with the Doctor to check my eyes, he told me they were very inflamed so I'm assuming that means the first day might've been a bit rougher for me than usual.

As of today (Day 4) I have no real discomfort but my vision is very blurry. I've got the huge dark glasses they gave me on and I'm squinting with the page zoomed in to 300% of normal. My eyes get tired after looking at light sources for a while and the eye drops are a relief. Tomorrow morning I will be getting the contacts out I'm very much looking forward to that.

PRK day 0

Greetings friends, I am one hour out from getting PRK eye surgery done. In the interest of science I plan to record the procedure and all or any effects it has on my person be it physical, emotional or mental.

I've seen my Doc, old man Hamish earlier today I was given no type of pre-surgery information other than the usual legal mumbo-jumbo I was required to sign upon agreeing to the preceedure. I am anxious to see the results but from I understand the recovery process for PRK is pretty brutal. I opted PRK over LASIK due to a huge discrepancy in price, the trade off is a longer recovery process.

In PRK they use the same type of laser to reform the eye. The difference is in the method they use to get past the outer corneal layer. Instead of cutting a circular flap they use some type of chemical agent to dissolve then rub away the outer layer. After that is removed the inner cornea can be reshaped by the laser.

In the event of my blinding or death learn from my mistakes: farewell friends