Days 4, 5, 6: Quickly
Published August 8th, 2007Day 4:
More misery. Goddamn my eyes hurt all day. The contacts felt like twigs in my eyes. There was no relief except for one eye drop that I had to use every hour. Which granted relief after 15 minutes, and 30 minutes later the pain returned. I took Vicodin to kill the pain and get some sleep. It only caused me to have bizarre, jumbled yet vivid dreams and wake up at 6 am.
Day 5:
Maybe the Vicodin did something, because this day wasn’t as bad. I could sorta see out of my right eye, but my left was useless. Went to the doctor, he said everything was progressing OK. Took out the contacts…and my eyes hated that. More pain and discomfort all night. Loss of what vision I had gained. More Vicodin. More dreams and early morning insomnia…
Day 6:
Today I had to be up early anyway, as my parents had new doors put in all over the house. Which meant drilling. And sanding. And dust. Great. So I spent all day outside, with sunglasses on and a cap and a jacket over my head. Sunlight hurts. Vampires would feel sorry for me. Today absolutely sucked - being outside wasn’t fun. I have to keep my eyes from drying out, so I had to use artificial tears constantly since there was a breeze and it was warm out. Once when walking through the house, I got a speck of dust in my eye. That burned like crazy, I had to wash it out with artificial tears. My vision today has improved a bit, I can sorta see - but no detail, noting up close. I’m barely able to read this as I type.
Hopefully tomorrow will improve.
Have I mentioned I have to tape plastic eye shields to my face every night? It’s ever so fun. The stickyness won’t come off either. And I have to put a vaseline-type substance in my eyes at night to prevent drying out. It’s great. Yeah. I’d better be able to see in a couple days, or this will have been the biggest mistake ever.
Your last 4 posts have been like one big advertisement against laser eye surgery.
Seriously, though, I feel terrible for you - I’m sure (hoping) it’ll all be worth it soon.
well just to remind everyone, I had PRK surgery, which is an older technique that no one gets anymore unless they have to. Which I did. LASIK, which is what you usually hear advertised, is much less trouble. Everyone I know who has gotten LASIK was fine in like 3-4 days.
Yea, this is like the dark side of laser surgery no one must talk about! It’s like a cult or something–only allowed to sing its praises.
Seriously, I hope it all improves soon–if the doc says it is going OK then I am sure it will.
But dude, that is some poor planning on your parents’ part to schedule dusty door replacement during the time you are home with sensitive eyes! Staying outside all day like that does not seem like a fun time.
Yeah it was actually scheduled for last week, but something happened and it had to be delayed til this week.
Jeez man I am so sorry. Don’t know what else to say but, shit that sucks.
yuck! i would rather just put contacts in for the rest of my life than go through that! it sounds like you are coping and doing the best you can under the circumstances! when do you go back to the doctor?
j.j.
saturday morning.