My PRK – Days two and three after Surgery
I must say, day two was pretty uneventful. It was just a regular boring Sunday. I stayed home and watched some movies. Bas came over later and we went out to get some food. It felt good to be outside again, especially with the weather being so nice.
Day three I had to go into work. We were moving from Suite 200 in our building to Suite 102….so that meant that IT had to coordinate the move of all the computers, wireless access points, T1s and phone systems. It also meant that I had to be at work at 7:00am. this in itself was not so bad, had it not been for the “minor” side effects of PRK.
As I mentioned in the previous posts, PRK has a longer healing time and more painful recovery period. For the first wo days, I was quite content since I was experiencing none of that. Today, however, proved to be the day it all caught up with me. Right after waking up, my eyes were super sensitive to light. Even putting in eye drops, it was painful since I had to look up and into some kind of light source. Being outside was not too pleasant either. It was a lovely day, in the 60s, with the sun shining bright. Usually I’d be ecstatic to have that kind of day in the inter, but not today. Even with sunglasses on (polarized, UV protective), I still had to shield my eyes from the sun using alternate means like closing my eyes or using my hand, neither of which proved too useful. My eyes were dry, yet teary, red and burning.
I left work around 2:00pm to go to the eye doctor for my post-op appointment. My vision had returned enough that I was cleared to drive. My doc told me that my side effects were mild compared to some other PRK patients. His previous appointment had to have the lights turned out completely, even indoors, and still wore sunglasses because his eyes were so sensitive. I am not quite so bad…hell, I’m nowhere near that bad.
I was bad enough, however, that I had to cancel going to the Redrex men’s league hockey game with Tim. Usually I’d be there on the bench helping out, but today was NOT a good day to go anywhere. I instead decided to go to bed at a nice early 9:30pm.
