Based on my post from Saturday, you would think that my eye surgery was a slam-dunk.
Well it wasn't.
Saturday afternoon and evening I played on my computer (you can guess what I was playing!), until my vision was too hazy and I couldn't see well enough anymore. I fugured that I had overdone it and dried out my temporary contact lenses. I would just lay off until Sunday. Well, it turns out that Sunday my vision was still so hazy I could barely see. My eyes teared up easily and they were light sensitive. I spent most of the day laying around "watching" TV. Actually I had my eyes closed much of the time, opening them every so often so I could tell what was going on. Actually that's not a bad way to watch an Arizona Cardinal's football game...
The doctor called twice on Saturday to see how things were going. I told him they were going great. If he had called Sunday I would have had a much diferrent story to tell. He never called -- and I figured that since there was no real pain involved I would just hold off on talking to him until he called -- or until our next appointment. That will be on Wednesday, when I get the contact lenses removed.
Today has been somewhat better. I am still light sensitive. There is still a lot of haze too. I had my son Nathan pick me up and take me to work. I stopped at the drugstore and got some +2.50 reading glasses. I am at least able to get some work done, even though my eyes are not 100%.
I looked on the internet and found that haze is normal for LASEK and may take a few months before it goes away. I also found that it is normal for vision to be good after the first 24 hours of surgery and then to deteriorate before getting better. Probably due to the healing process of the eye surface. Knowing that all of this is normal has calmed me down a bit. I do have moments where I can tell that my vision is much better than before -- even with glasses. It will just take a while for everything to clear up and settle down I guess.