5/7 week update

did my checkup and luckily, I had very dry eyes when I did this last friday. I say luckily, b/c now I know what my eye strength is towards the end of the day when things go south. I am -.3 in one eye and -.5 in the other. The Doctor told me that this was not all bad, as being slightly nearsighted would be a way to buffer the onset of wearing glasses as my eyes gravitated to farsightedness. I didn't buy that. A couple alternatives were floated. 1. keep the eyes wetter, since the vision is good in the AM and probably things wear out later. 2. wear light-prescription glasses later in the day. I scuttled #2 immediately, as the goal here is to NOT wear glasses.
We discussed re-cuts. I asked the Dr. what the percentage of success/failure (overshoot or undershoot) was for this particular establishment on 2nd cuts. She didn't know but would ask. OK. I'm probably not going to worry about the -.3 eye. The -.5 would be the fixer-up-er. I still have a little ghosting that comes and goes with wetness/blinking. I"m not terribly concerned either way yet; I am minorly inconvenienced by my level of nearsightedness where previously I was unable to function w/out glasses. If we stopped where we are, I would probably have better vision than 90% of the world's population through history.
I would probably have to take some drops into the field with me when camping or elk hunting, but since I wouldn't be looking at a computer screen all day, I expect my vision would actually be better outdoors.
Next checkup in 6 months. The ghosting/dry eyeness *should* be gone by then. The head doctor should call to talk about options next week or so.

Tidbits I picked up

I picked some info during the checkup on Friday. First of all, the eye sight is doing well. somewhere around 20/25 combined. My doc says I'm on the high edge of the recovery curve and that it usually takes longer. FYI: this was my 5/3 week checkup.

Some Answers:
A: why do I see best in the first 30-60 mins of the AM? 1. B/c I use a computer, my eye lenses don't focus far and like lifting a weight. It's easy at first, but gets harder as the day progresses. I was recommended to take several breaks from work each hour and stare at some object in the far distance. Also, keep the eyes wet. B/c my eyes aren't used to focusing this far on their own, since they had help in the past, this will need to be worked on. never knew there was rehab involved, but I guess I will work on this. They are the doctors.

B. Why do I see better on some days than others. Answer: depends on the daily amount of swelling. As a general curve, the eye swelling should be decreasing over time. Therefore the amount of variance in my daily vision should reduce over time, but some days the eyes will be more swollen than others.

Update 3/5

3 week semi-versary for the left eye; 5 weeks for right.
the combined vision is pretty good today.
If it were yesterday, I would have given the results a C. Today, I would say B. It's weird that the vision is a little better out of my left eye than my right. But. combo is solid today.
Unstable is the new stable.

Check up tomorrow at the doc's office will be able to put numbers with the results.

Unstable is the new Stable

My last blog from Saturday the 28th was very positive. If I had written a blog on Sunday, it would have been much more negative. Monday was more promising than Sunday, but less than Saturday. In general, each day gets better, but they all follow a similar pattern. I wake up. I can see well. I look across the field across from our house and I can pick out the individual slats in the rail fence about 250 yards away. I can see the Continental divide very clearly. At some point in the next hour, perhaps b/c of the cup of coffee I drink (I don't know), my vision degrades to pretty good. I can read my PC okay while working. Eventually, though, it fades out. Last night we went to a pro hockey game and I had lost a goodly amount of detail toward the end.
Today, the vision was pretty good. The 2 week semaniversary is tomorrow for the left eye. I can see pretty well. I suspect that the period of improvement in my vision in the first part of the day will become longer as the eyes heal.

I poked myself in the eye today b/c I fell back into my habit of adjusting dried contacts by hand.