Just returned from my post operative visit with the eye surgeon.
It was an interesting day yesterday! The surgical center moved up the surgery to 1:45 in the afternoon, so it was a long wait. I told them I did not want any anesthesia, But the anesthesiologist needed a new boat, so he insisted on "just relaxing me a bit". The last thing I remember is being wheeled into the operating room, and looking up at the ceiling. The next thing I knew, I was in a wheel chair being wheeled out of the building. I missed the whole damned show!
Initially my vision through the operated eye, was poor. To give an idea it was like looking at the world through a white handkerchief. By around 7:00PM the dilation and numbing drops started to wear off and improvement in my vision began to happen rapidly. By about 10:00PM there were significant changes every 15 minutes. One thing I noticed is the change in color perception between my two eyes. I picked up the newspaper last night to see if I could read it. The paper itself looked much whiter through the right eye, than as seen through unoperated left eye, which looked yellowish like old parchment. I estimate the difference in color temperature at about 2000 degrees Kelvin. All colors are also brighter and much more vivid.
This morning they measured my vision and found the unassisted vision in my right (operated) eye was about 20/35, It had been 20/50 without glasses before the surgery. He examined the eye and said everything looked perfect, and that my vision would continue to improve as the swelling at the incision site and the capsule the lens is inserted into goes down. By tomorrow morning the sharpness of vision in that eye should be much better yet, and will continue to gradually improve for four weeks, although most of the improvement is in the first 48 hours.
He scheduled surgery for the left eye tentatively for next Wednesday, pending the results of another followup examination next Monday. I also made my doctor promise to tie up the anesthesiologist, and lock him in a closet for my next surgery.
Glad that one eye is over and all is well.Here in India they show the operation on closed circuit tv and the patient gets to take a copy of it home to study at leisure. Of course, in India, suing the docs is pretty near impossible if something goes wrong.
You have described the exact procedure that was done on me with both of my implants ! I am terrified at the thought of anesthesia .if not absolutely necessary.and it stems from a readers digest article that I read on the subject.all kinds of horrible things can occur because of inept Anesthesiologist .
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OK Shelly,we are glad it all went well.However we are waiting to hear if it does as moch to improve your disposition as it did my wifes.Can we look ahead to an all sweetness and light Shelly ?
I saw the surgeon this afternoon. As I suspected the right eye has improved to half way between 20/25 and 20/20. He will operate on the left (and last) eye this Wednesday at 11:30am.
It appears he calculated the Right eye perfectly. He told me he used a new formula for calculating an eye that has had prior Lasik done on it.
The daily improvement in my vision has been spectacular. Saturday I threw my glasses in a drawer. They are no longer of any use. I now drive day or night without glasses, but still use a pair of drugstore reading glasses.
Today I found that I no longer need glasses for the computer, and I am just at the edge of being able to read small print, like a newspaper, without glasses in decent light. I have no doubt that when the left eye is done, and fully contributing to my vision, I will be essentially free of glasses.
After I had my eyes done I certainly wondered why this operation is not used to correct extreme short-sightedness such as I had prior to developing cataracts, of course maybe it is used but I haven't heard of it.
