LASIK day 10 update
Time for another update - things seem to be settling down in that my eyes aren't sore any more (the left one is still a bit bloodshot and battered), and I'm only using the lubricating drops infrequently. The steroid drops continue for another few days but there's no discomfort aside from a very slight dryness in the mornings. So all is going well, I think.
With regard to acuity, I have been testing it at work and in the mornings I can now see 6/5 with my right eye and 6/12 (blurred) with the left. There is a noticeable difference between the two but as the left was a diopter blinder to start with, I guess I have to allow it time to catch up! However this is all a bit misleading as although I can see very well on the 3m corrected chart, once the distance is increased it's not as sharp as before, or what I hope it will end up being so the acuity sounds falsely good in my mind. I have been told not to expect to eventually see as well as I could with my old glasses or contacts as like many uber-myopes, I had been over-corrected and so had got used to seeing lot better than what would be considered normal. Strangely enough I don't think I'll mind that though, the novelty of being able to see as soon as I wake up and not needing any help to do so is way cancelling out any annoyance I feel at not having abnormally razor-sharp vision. My next check-up is not until the 11th May so hopefully I'll have a proper test then and will have a better idea about where I will end up. I've not yet braved night driving as I am getting the halo effect (ball of light around headlights and streetlights) but think I'll give it a go next week (anyway I'll have to as I have a couple of late surgeries).
I have also stopped sleeping in my ski goggles. I waited until there was no scratchiness remaining in my eyes because of my tendency to sleep on my front, and didn't want to risk dislodging anything, but think it should be fine now. And, being well aware that my goggles have a pink tint to the lenses, wanted to steer well-clear of any accusations that I might be on one end of the slope towards a soft collar (take note of the seamless link, readers...)
Just to prove that people do read this thing, I had a request last week to write something about soft collars. An anaesthetist friend of mine was having a rant about the high proportion of soft-collar/tinted glasses positive people in the pain clinic he was doing, an lamenting the fact that half of them were people he had referred to the pain clinic in an attempt to pass the buck when he was doing a previous job. So now he gets the joys all over again. Now I'm not at all being derogatory to people with genuine conditions but there is, in many cases, a large supratentorial component. Signs to watch out for are the soft collar, especially when accompanied by several copper and magnetic bracelets, tinted glasses, wrist splints, and mobility scooters without a discernable reason for needing on. Sort of like Andy, in Little Britain. Often the women have lots of cats, which is yet another reason why I am not going to get a cat...
Anyway, I digress. There are no tinted goggles any more, certainly no soft collar and no cats. I plan to spend the rest of the weekend eating my body weight in chocolate before starting on a health kick next week. I managed to give up crisps for Lent (well, aside from a couple of bags that I had in Vegas, but what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas and so doesn't count). As long as I can fit into my jeans (a bargain £7.50 from Sainsburys!)
With regard to acuity, I have been testing it at work and in the mornings I can now see 6/5 with my right eye and 6/12 (blurred) with the left. There is a noticeable difference between the two but as the left was a diopter blinder to start with, I guess I have to allow it time to catch up! However this is all a bit misleading as although I can see very well on the 3m corrected chart, once the distance is increased it's not as sharp as before, or what I hope it will end up being so the acuity sounds falsely good in my mind. I have been told not to expect to eventually see as well as I could with my old glasses or contacts as like many uber-myopes, I had been over-corrected and so had got used to seeing lot better than what would be considered normal. Strangely enough I don't think I'll mind that though, the novelty of being able to see as soon as I wake up and not needing any help to do so is way cancelling out any annoyance I feel at not having abnormally razor-sharp vision. My next check-up is not until the 11th May so hopefully I'll have a proper test then and will have a better idea about where I will end up. I've not yet braved night driving as I am getting the halo effect (ball of light around headlights and streetlights) but think I'll give it a go next week (anyway I'll have to as I have a couple of late surgeries).
I have also stopped sleeping in my ski goggles. I waited until there was no scratchiness remaining in my eyes because of my tendency to sleep on my front, and didn't want to risk dislodging anything, but think it should be fine now. And, being well aware that my goggles have a pink tint to the lenses, wanted to steer well-clear of any accusations that I might be on one end of the slope towards a soft collar (take note of the seamless link, readers...)
Just to prove that people do read this thing, I had a request last week to write something about soft collars. An anaesthetist friend of mine was having a rant about the high proportion of soft-collar/tinted glasses positive people in the pain clinic he was doing, an lamenting the fact that half of them were people he had referred to the pain clinic in an attempt to pass the buck when he was doing a previous job. So now he gets the joys all over again. Now I'm not at all being derogatory to people with genuine conditions but there is, in many cases, a large supratentorial component. Signs to watch out for are the soft collar, especially when accompanied by several copper and magnetic bracelets, tinted glasses, wrist splints, and mobility scooters without a discernable reason for needing on. Sort of like Andy, in Little Britain. Often the women have lots of cats, which is yet another reason why I am not going to get a cat...
Anyway, I digress. There are no tinted goggles any more, certainly no soft collar and no cats. I plan to spend the rest of the weekend eating my body weight in chocolate before starting on a health kick next week. I managed to give up crisps for Lent (well, aside from a couple of bags that I had in Vegas, but what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas and so doesn't count). As long as I can fit into my jeans (a bargain £7.50 from Sainsburys!)
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