1 week post graft

Nothing much to report.   My eye starts out a little puffy in the morning but soon settles down.  It starts watering a bit in the afternoon and this gets steadily worse into the evening.  No big deal though.

I was supposed to see the consultant next week (two weeks after the op), but there are no outpatient appointments available.  I've been bumped until mid-July.  I queried this and apparently the change was made with "the consultant's approval".   How hard could it be to pre-book a sequence of follow-up  appointments when the surgery was booked.  (This would involve using two systems (inpatients and outpatients) which probably don't talk to each other).

The vision seems to have stabalised - or at least is changing very slowly.   It's better than it was before but not much.  Once it fully settles down though it should be a lot easier to correct than it was before.

Three days after

My eye watered a lot yesterday but the fluid was clear and I'm confident that it isn't a sign of infection.  Sleeping is proving a bit difficult.  I normally prefer to sleep on my left side but I don't feel able to do this, even with the hard plastic shield covering my eye. 

This morning my eye is a little sore when I blink, but fine otherwise.  There's still some redness but that's to be expected.  I'm limiting my time in front of my PC to around 1/2 an hour in the morning and the same in the afternoon (which is a severe limitiation!) so as not to strain my eyes too much.

I can start reading from tomorrow, which will be good.   Audio books are fine, but I much prefer to read.  Again, I'll ease myself back into it.

The day after the op

I had the op yesterday and all seemed to go smoothly.  I had a gauze patch to wear until this afternoon and during the night I had a hard plastic shield to tape over my eye so that I didn't do any damage as I slept.

I saw the surgeon/consultant this afternoon and he says it looks good.  Judge for yourself:

You can see the join where the new cornea meets the old most easily to the left of the pupil, about 2/3rds the way across the iris.   You can also see the stitches - these are the dark lines going around the graft from the outside in.

I don't have much pain - there's some when I blink but that's about it.   Both eyes are watering more than usual but that's no bid deal

Pre-Op Calibration

This is a chart that you see when you have your eyes tested.

It's called a Snellen chart (this one can't be used for an accurate diagnosis of how good your vision is - there are too many unknowns.  I can use it to measure relative changes in my vision over time)     With my contact lens in my right eye and the chart at arms length, I can read the line second from the bottom (the one that begins X  D F H).  I am very happy with this.

With my left eye, I cannot see the A.   If I move my head I can see a ghost of the right hand sloping side of the letter A.  Everything else is a blur.

I know that progress after the graft will be slow but it should be measureable over time.








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