Today was my first follow-up appointment for my right eye and also my tentatively scheduled appointment for surgery on my left eye. The surgeon's assistant put a numbing drop in my right eye and then removed the bandage contact lens. Removing the contact lens was painful because the outer membrane of the cornea adheres a bit to the contact lens bandage. The past two days, I've had some discomfort in my eye most likely caused by the bandage contact lens itself after a week in my eye. The surgeon's assistant said that it's common to feel the edges of the contact lens after it's in the eye more than five days.
My vision in my surgery eye has improved quite a bit, but is blurry. In today's vision test, I was able to read some letters on the 20/20 line and got some of them wrong. The surgeon looked at my eye with a microscope and said it's healing well and that my ability to already read some letters on the 20/20 line means that my vision is on a good trajectory. I was actually surprised that I was able to read some letters on the 20/20 line. My guesstimate was that my vision would be about 20/100, but apparently it's considerably better than this. I'm beginning to be able to read with my surgery eye, but small letters are blurry.
I decided not to go forward with surgery on my left eye today. I scheduled a tentative surgery appointment for Friday instead. If by Friday, I'm able to read reasonably well with my right eye and I'm confident that my right eye can carry the load while my left eye heals, then I'll go forward with surgery on Friday. I decided I wasn't comfortable going ahead with the surgery until I'm able to read consistently with my right eye.
The surgeon was very understanding and flexible about when I do the surgery on my left eye. He and his staff have been excellent!
I did a spinning class and a yoga class today (in a non-heated room) and had no issue with exercise. I was careful to keep sweat away from my right eye.
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