Wednesday, March 13, 2013

PRK Journal, Day 7

A bit of a frustrating day working on the computer.  It was hard to read, though I managed.  I've read others reports from the 1-3 week range saying that the artificial tears gave a brief improvement in vision, and I've found the same.  I get one or two noticeably clearer minutes.  As a result I'm plowing through the tears at quite a rate, probably every twenty minutes while I'm at the computer.  Which the doc told me is just fine, in fact it helps the healing.  I'm using the rest of my preservative-free drops first.  They're fairly expensive but I'm happy to pay a few dollars for any acceleration of the timeline.  I've also got a bunch of cheaper drops with preservatives which I haven't tried yet.

I was out last night.  I could have driven.  I'll still try to avoid it for a bit if I can.  Sign reading is still a bit dicey.

I'll switch to weekly updates from here.  Apologies to any readers on the dullness of these reports.  Basically I'm forcing myself to keep a record so I can see what the progress has actually been.  Also I found that these types of running journals on other blogs to be very helpful, so maybe mine will be of similar use to others considering or recovering from PRK.

Comfort: Hitting the artificial tears as hard as ever.  Otherwise fine.
Photosensitivity: Only bright sun and direct glare (as off wet streets)
Target: Both eyes: 72 inches.  Right eye: 72 inches.  Left eye: 57 inches.
Closeup vision: not so great today.
Driving: OK, not night driving yet.
Working: Did it, but it was tough.

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