Too Much Perfection?

I woke up this morning with delightfully clear vision! Which lasted all of five minutes. Then it was back to the hazy, blurry view that I’ve been enjoying for the past pair of days. The good news is that the double vision seems to be gone. Thank goodness for minor blessings.

I had a checkup appointment this afternoon. He said something (don’t ask, I dunno) was 90% healed. He sounded pleased, so I am pleased. I go back late tomorrow afternoon to have the bandage contacts removed. I hope that will make my eyes feel better, but I’ve read it will make them seem tender all over again for a little while. We’ll see!

The doctor was surprised that I didn’t feel any pain during the recovery. I didn’t. It was a little uncomfortable, but there was never any true pain. I’m grateful for that, too! Lucky me!

More to come tomorrow…

Exciting, I know.

Wow. My vision sucks today. I am seeing ghosting, haze, and quite often I’m seeing double! So, Lisa, don’t ask how many fingers you are holding up because I’ll be seeing twice as many!

I know it is all part of the healing process, but it certainly is annoying! And I can feel the contact in my right eye everytime I blink now. It is annoying as all hell.

That being said, there is no pain like the doctor had warned me about. So I guess I’m lucky in that regard. Yay for me.

I’ll update tomorrow when, hopefully, I can see again.

Last night wasn’t terrible. I was actually able to watch half of a movie before I became too sleepy to stay awake. Unfortunately, I woke up at 2:30am with a wutz foot jammed into my spine. Oy. Upon waking, I realized that my eye mask that I’m supposed to wear was MIA. It took me several minutes of fumbling in the dark to find it resting on the floor beside my bed.

At 3am I got up and went to another bedroom to sleep. It was just too hard to fall asleep only to be kicked awake again. I slept peacefully until after 7 this morning. When I woke up my eyes felt perfectly fine. Until I put eye drops into them. That’s when they began to sting again. It took me about 30 minutes to get all of the various drops into my eyes.

I then waited until 9:30am to take the painkiller they gave me. I didn’t really need it but I wanted to be prepared since the doctor said this afternoon and Sunday would be the worst of it. After that I took a long hot shower, while being very careful not to get my eyes wet.

Right now my vision is very hazy and blurry, so if there are typos in this, do forgive me. I just wanted to post a quick update!

More to come tomorrow.

I survived the PRK surgery! Yay me! It wasn’t bad. The valium was actually very very good. My eyesight is already much better. I can even see my bedroom clock, which I definitely could not see before without glasses!

Right now it feels like I have soap in my eyes, but the doctor said tomorrow and Sunday would be worse. I’ll find out soon enough.

So far, so good, though!

By this time tomorrow afternoon, the good Lord willing, I’ll be able to actually see! For a few hours at least, until my vision is stolen away again by the healing process that I’ve read about in about 1600 different articles found on Dr. Google. Apparently the vision fades in and out for the first couple of days while the healing process begins. Following that, about fifty percent of the healing process will occur in the first two weeks. It’ll be up to 5 months before my eyes are completely healed, though.

I think my nerves are pretty played up about it right now. Either that or there was way too much caffeine in my coffee. I’m pretty certain it is nerves, though. I’m fretting.

I’m just ready for it to be over and done with.

Tomorrow.



P.S. While it is my goal to update this blog every day, I may have to mentally compose the new couple of days worth and post them once my eyesight returns to some semblance of normal.

I am scheduled for that PRK laser eye surgery Friday morning. I am supposed to be there at 7:30am. When I get there they will administer a dose of Valium. Yay for that. However, I am starting to get nervous about the surgery. I wonder if I could get that Valium a few days in advance???

I keep wondering about the recovery process. Dr. Google has revealed some very worrisome blogs regarding the PRK recovery process, but I am trying to convince myself that it is a worst case scenario type thing. Right? Right!

I am nervous, though. Quite so. I am not going to back out, because I’m a full throttle kind of girl. Once I make a decision, I barrel down that road like I know what the hell I’m doing. No doubt, this will be no different.

But, did I mention I’m nervous?