RevRagnarok's Journal: LASIK Journal: Day Two

Day 2 - 10 Apr

I woke up and the haze is still there. Nowhere near as much thankfully. My eyes don't burn or anything, only when I put in the medicine (4x daily). My right eye seems to be the worse - it is more hazy and I have a burst blood vessel there. No that is not painful at all. I had my first followup this morning. I was able to drive myself (thankfully since Kat had to work). It didn't really hit me until I was on the highway - I could read the street signs way down the road perfectly fine (well, if I blinked a few times to wet my eyes good)!!!

I don't know what it is about the operation - if it is the methods or the medicine - but a very common side effect is that it seems like it is always dry. The 'dry contact lens' feeling. That's why the sunglasses/goggles are needed - because you will instinctually go poking your eye because it itches.

Anyway, I go in for my checkup. The doctor looked very closely along the surface of my eye with a bright light that reminded me of sticking my face in the photocopier. He said that the flap looked great - no wrinkles or edge peeling at all. He said it looks a little dry but wet enough - actually very good for a one day later. He said he has seen 1 week followups being drier than my eyes. I was a little worried on the eye chart. I had to blink a few times to have my right eye read the bottom line. The left eye was able to do it OK. With both I was good. It was after the eye test that he told me I was doing great - the line that I read with no problem was 20/15! I asked him about the sunglasses 24 hours - it's hard to see the TV! He confided in me that it is more for fingers than UV (indoors at least!) so if I wanted to wear the goofy 'sleep' goggles around the house that would be OK. I am nowhere near as light sensitive as I was yesterday. I cannot use my desktop with a CRT monitor, but the laptop's less-illumination TFT backlit display is acceptable in 5-10 minute bouts. So that's where I am typing this. Watching my NetFlix DVDs and playing FFT all day... Since I have a LCD at work, I may go in tomorrow. Or I may just take a long weekend and rest my eyes a bit longer.

  - RR