My operation seems to have been a success and was considerably less traumatic than the first time around. Unfortunately, the drive home yesterday was a nightmare; it took me close to five hours to drive 56 miles, probably the most frightening driving experience of my life.
My vision is still a little blurry, and my eyes are still rather photo-sensitive, so I will cut this post short.
More on how my operation went, surprising things about LASIK that I had not known, why I came home a day early, and my drive through a blustery hell should come in a day or so.
Yay! So you’re feeling okay and can see okay, right?
By the seeing okay I mean (I should have added this earlier) that I caught you commenting on my site so this must actually not be a huge problem.
The recovery time for this iteration of the “flap and zap” is surprisingly short. I’m hoping the blurriness goes away completely by the time I get back to work on Tuesday; I could not even read at all Saturday evening.
Today I was only able to visit a few of my favorite blogs before I started to get a headache from the monitor glare. I popped another of my doctor-supplied “happy pills” and have been drifting in an out of dream land.
Hi, I just wanted to know how your vision is now and did the glare at night go away? I am in the same boat as you and am going to have an enhancement with Dello Russo soon because of the same problems you mentioned. I have glare and slight blurriness too. Its hell so I cant wait till its over. Please let me know how you are now. Thanks again. Phil
Phil, the first two weeks after my operation my vision tended to fluctuate a bit. Also, oddly enough, the artificial tears can sometimes dry in clumps on my eyelashes; then when I try to see past those eyelashes, I see blurriness.
But all that aside, I do think that my vision is now quite a bit better. Vision is sometimes something one can really take for granted; you only think about the quality when its bad. So I waited until I was driving home this evening and again when I was watching TV in the dark, and I really paid attention to whether there was blurriness or glare—and I have to say that most of that is already gone.
I can’t wait until my eyes are fully healed, but I am quite happy with the results so far.
Good luck with your re-treatment; I’m just sorry I waited so long to get it done.
Thats good news Mike, thanks, my mind is a bit at ease now. Jeez, I cant even function at night let alone drive at night without using Alphagan drops to shrink my pupils. (DelloRusso told me to use them in the mean time). Are your eyes as dry as they were after the first surgery? I hope not. After 4 & 1/2 months, mine are finally almost done being dry and am not looking foward to that again. Feel good, Phil
They are nowhere nearly as dry. The main reason I put off my second surgery was because I dreaded the long recovery time (a little over four months sounds about right). I did not realize that the flap cutting part (the most traumatic part of the procedure) was not part of the second surgery. My eyes almost seem back to normal. I imagine that my six week check-up, which will be at the beginning of March, will be last trip up to Bergenfield.
If fact, I have only been wetting my eyes as preventative medicine, because the “doctor told me to.” I have cut back to maybe once per hour, but there are some days that I am so busy that I forget to wet my eyes the entire day and feel no noticeable ill effects.
I hope that Dr. Dello Russo has great success in correcting the aberrations in your cornea, Phil.