My PRK – Days five and six after Surgery
Day five was Wednesday, January 9th of 2008, and it was glorious. I only say that because it is the first day since Monday that I did not want to claw my eyes out. The light sensitivity and pain of the last two days was really starting to irk me, but today was pretty good. There still was some light sensitivity, but nowhere near as much as I had experienced in the last two days.
The biggest problem now has nothing to do with my eyesight or the recovery process. Instead, my main problem is boredom. My vision is not yet clear enough to read any books, or to sit on the computer. It’s not stable enough and the photo sensitivity isn’t mild enough to actually take a trip anywhere, although I did drive over to pick up my mail from the Doyne house.
There’s only so much guitar I can play without reading some new music. There’s only so much blurry TV I can watch….only so much I can sleep.
Today was day dix after surgery. My left eye seems to have pretty good vision, but my right eye is still blurry. I went into work today for a few hours to move my old office to my new cube. It actually kind of sucks right now. I have way too much stuff for that little cube. Currently, I have (from left to right): a stack of laptops, my primary desktop tower, my dual monitors, a network switch with my phone on top of it, my laptop, another monitor, and two more desktops that I have to setup for the new Springfield store. I unpacked all my paperwork, software disks, licensing information, backup tapes and a plethora of everything else, and tried to stuff it into the four drawers I had in that desk. Although this is only a temporary arrangement until the new suite is built out…it will be uncomfortable sitting there for a while. Additionally, the way my area is, it is 1. in a high traffic area. 2. all my screens are clearly visible. Goodbye Angeline Jolie walllpaper! For the most part, I don’t particularly mind, but then again….I don’t really want to make my work everybody else’s business.
I had another appointment today with the eye doctor. I drove out to Plymouth Meeting for the fifth time in the last week to get another check-up of my recovery. Dr Grey (or is it Gray…I again forgot to look. I thought it would be rather awkward for me to look at her nametag, which is conveniently [or unconveniently] placed directly over her breast. So Dr. G it is. Anyway…so I went in to see if the band-aid contacts can be removed.
She used a giant Q-tip looking apparatus to remove the contacts. As she removed the right contact, I felt pain. Her words right before were “itchiness and dryness is normal…pain is not”, so I was quick to point out the rather obvious dilemma. I quickly got some numbing drops. She took a look under the eye-scope thing-a-magigy and found that the epithelial layer is not completely healed. It was about 80% of the way, but not quite there yet. Under the contact lens, she couldn’t clearly see how far it had healed…so it was a shot in the dark trial and error method of finding out. She then removed the left eye contact lens, and there was no pain as that one was removed. I happily announced this fact as I reveled in my own awesomeness. She again took a look under the microscope eye looky thingy and saw that the cornea had regrown. She pointed out that the healing was like the seam of my jeans….the cornea’s epithelial layer had grown from the outside in, and formed a seam in the center. Wait a minute….why was she looking at my jeans…..there could be something there….except for the giant rock on her finger (yes, Tim…I checked).
The rest of the day was more boredom. I went ahead and organized my DVD collection out of said boredom. I then decided that I should pay Tim a visit, since I had gotten him the Orange Box for the 360. I stayed around and (hopefully) got him addicted to Portal. After that, I went to hockey practice. No, I did not actually suit up and play…but I made an appearance as team captain just as a figurehead, and so that I can give my input on drills and on setting new lines (since Flick quit the team).
I have another appointment scheduled for Saturday morning to see if the right contact can be removed. Oh wait…I forgot to mention….after having the right eye checked, she inserted another contact so that it can continue to heal. So barring any major problems or revelations, expect another update on Saturday.
