The Ivory Tower of Pure Thought

I have made a near full recovery from PRK ( photorefractive keratectomy ) surgery. I went to the facility on Friday morning, and by noon the procedure was complete. Initially I could see perfectly probably better than I ever had in my entire life. After about 30 minutes of clear vision this feeling of happiness was quickly replaced with a searing pain the likes of which I have never experienced. I quickly rushed back out to the clinic to double check that everything was fine, and according to the doctor everything was in order, and due to the fact that PRK is a very invasive surgery this level of pain was not all that uncommon. I was given a prescription for Tylenol 3. This is where the majority of my weekend goes blurry ( no pun intended ) I remember briefly waking up for my mom to put the regiment of drops in my eyes to ensure proper healing, and then sleeping. I have to say that I don’t honestly think a person could recover from this surgery on their own. Being rendered nearly blind, and needing to follow strict procedure when applying the eye drops it would be nearly impossible. Luckily my parents live near by and they volunteered to help me in my recovery. By Sunday the pain had nearly subsided, and was replaced with mere irritation, which I believe was caused by the contact lens that was placed in my eye after surgery. I was able to reduce this irritation by applying artificial tears which really helped. However, during this time I could not open my eyes for periods of more than a couple of minutes at a time, and luckily my brother is very good at typing and so he was able to help me with email and my day to day work. Finally, today rolled around for the majority of the day I was still dealing with the minor discomfort which required me to almost constantly be applying artificial tears to my eyes. At 4:00 I went back to the clinic at which time I was given the thumbs up, and the contacts where removed. I am now able to see, not as well as I could after the initial surgery but hundreds of times better than I could when I was in glasses. I believe that over the next week my vision will continue to improve and if I am able to stick to the recovery procedure I should come out of this with near 20/20 or better vision.

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