Eye update
Jan. 6th, 2024 10:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rscThings have progressed since I posted this. I finally got measured for a new prescription on Wednesday of last week, and the new glasses arrived this past Thursday. My impression so far is that my vision in the right eye is noticeably better than it was before all the surgeries. It will be easier to tell for sure in a few weeks.
The bubble is still there in my left eye, but I can now tell that it's shrinking. (When I had my followup with the eye surgeon on Dec. 29 he said it was about half the original size, at which stage my reaction was "You could have fooled me", as I wasn't really seeing any difference. Also, he said everything looks good, which is the important part.) There's still blurriness in that eye, but I feel more confident that it will all be gone soon. In the meantime I'm wearing a patch over the left eye to drive and watch TV, so the blurriness doesn't interfere. This is especially important when driving at night, since blurry lights everywhere get to be a real problem.
And once the bubble finishes dissipating, I'll be done with the strong recommendation (not strictly a "requirement") to sleep on my right side only. At least I came up with a strategy to make that work much better than it had been: If the hip or arm starts to get uncomfortable, I lie on my back with my head turned to the right for 10 minutes or so to let my right side "reset". As a result I'm sleeping much better, and kicking myself for not having thought of this two weeks earlier.
So that's the view (ha) from here.
The bubble is still there in my left eye, but I can now tell that it's shrinking. (When I had my followup with the eye surgeon on Dec. 29 he said it was about half the original size, at which stage my reaction was "You could have fooled me", as I wasn't really seeing any difference. Also, he said everything looks good, which is the important part.) There's still blurriness in that eye, but I feel more confident that it will all be gone soon. In the meantime I'm wearing a patch over the left eye to drive and watch TV, so the blurriness doesn't interfere. This is especially important when driving at night, since blurry lights everywhere get to be a real problem.
And once the bubble finishes dissipating, I'll be done with the strong recommendation (not strictly a "requirement") to sleep on my right side only. At least I came up with a strategy to make that work much better than it had been: If the hip or arm starts to get uncomfortable, I lie on my back with my head turned to the right for 10 minutes or so to let my right side "reset". As a result I'm sleeping much better, and kicking myself for not having thought of this two weeks earlier.
So that's the view (ha) from here.
