PRK Journal, Day 21

The past week has been one of continued gradual progress, and maybe a plateau for now.  The target test numbers have leveled off right around the 20/20 level for each eye, with the right eye always a little better as planned.  It is the distance eye and got the full Custom Vue treatment.  The left eye did not as there's no point in the ultra fine tuning since it was to be left short of full distance correction anyway, as the reading eye.

I'm hoping that this isn't the final level though.  Things are still not as sharp as they were with glasses, plus they take just a little longer to come into focus.  It feels like I have to be closer than before to street signs and license plates, for example, to be able to read them.

I am now working with my computer at the high resolution setting I used pre-surgery.  Need for the artificial tears has fallen off drastically.  I now use them only a couple of times a day, and it's not a strong need.  The eyes do continue to dry out somewhat at night.  I usually wake up one or two times and decide to reach for the drops.  This also continues to get better.

One sort of gross note:  I'm still taking the steroid drops, now three times a day, and I find I can taste them in the back of the throat right afterward.  Makes you think there's a system leak back there somewhere, like radiator coolant finding its way into the fuel lines.  But we are not cars, and tasting eye drops is apparently common and harmless.