Day 9 (Right)

My vision continues to improve and I'm reading more easily, so I'll go ahead with surgery in my left eye tomorrow. I tested several monovision contact lenses (-5.75, -6.0, and -6.5) in my left (non-dominant) eye before having surgery in my right eye. One benefit of doing surgery in my right eye first is that it gave me more time to contemplate whether to do monovision in my left eye. My left eye is a -7.0 and the -5.75 and -6.0 contact lenses felt too undercorrected. I was aware of the imbalance between my eyes at this level of undercorrection. A -0.5 undercorrection (the -6.5 lens) was comfortable, though. At this level of undercorrection, I didn't perceive an imbalance in my vision or the undercorrection. Although this is a small level of monovision ("mini-monovision"), it will likely mean at least an additional five years without wearing reading glasses. I'm excited to get surgery for my left eye tomorrow.

The vision in my right eye gets a little clearer each day. It's not quite as clear as my left eye with glasses, but it's getting very close. I do have the sensation of a bit of roughness in my right eye and it seems to be gradually diminishing.