Tomorrow I get to go see just how much progress I am making recovering from my cornea transplant and see if I get any more sutures removed and or reduction of my predinisolone eye drops. I expect to get my prescription updated sometime after the appointment after the next one going on the schedule should be in august
Getting a bit anxious about my next appointment that is coming up in three days. I wonder if I would be getting some more sutures removed. Will also be my first appointment at the new building though a bit annoyed that I found out by a Facebook post and got the letter weeks later.
So after a few months of reduced activity after the cornea transplant it seems that I am finally back to loosing weight as opposed to maintaining the weight and still not gaining. Finally dropped from 220’s and I am now at 217 giving that I started off at 256 this makes 39 pounds lost.
Due to the not needing my eye shield any longer I have decided to end the ban of her being in my room when I am asleep. My cat peaches loves to cuddle and lay on my bed with me so she should be quite pleased with this.
The vision part of the exam didn’t go quite as anticipated but my cornea is healing good enough that I got to have two sutures removed.
While my predinisolone has been cut to three times daily I have to take antibiotic eye drops 4 times a day for 3 days.
Why must my left eyes vision be at its worst on my appointments lol but with two sutures gone things should improve more.
Tomorrow I have my next appointment with my ophthalmologist and if all goes as expected I will be getting the first of my sutures removed. I will also get to find out if I can stop putting on the eye shield when I am going to sleep for the night. I will also find out if they will be adjusting my eye drops or not.
Definitely making progress on my long road of recovery. The first four months of the 18 month recovery is going quite well so far at least that’s what things seem to be. I am still in the period where if I’m going to reject the cornea its going to happen between now and the first 18 months. Giving the way things are going on and the rejection rate of the DALK procedure one can be rather optimistic with the way things are going for me :).
In two weeks I’ll finally be able to get one of my sutures removed. Getting kind of excited but remaining cautious as while things are going great so far but for the first 18 months post transplant I’ll be in the prime time of cornea rejection as rejection tends to happen within the first 18 months or years later.
So far so good however things are going great and progress is being made. One can anticipate success overall given the low rate of rejection overall.
So just a few minutes ago I took my last dose of prednisone of the day but for whatever reason despite getting the drop in my left eye on the first try which hasn’t happened in a while. The drop of prednisone somehow squirted into the right eye (the eye that did not need it) from inside my face somehow which was midly uncomfortable AND made my vision very blurry.
To make matters worse I was just starting a match on Titanfall 2 and had to go through half the round barely able to see what I was doing. This has never happened to me before and was a scary experience. Thought for sure I ruined it for the team but we managed to barely win lol.
OH and on top of that some of the drop drained into my mouth so I also got to taste the drops which did not taste good lolz
now that my predinisolone drops have been reduced from 6 times a day to 4 times that means a new schedule. The oddity of the new schedule is that I will now finish my drops later instead of sooner but less often. every 4 hours instead of 2 hours delays my final drop 2 hours
Just got out of the appointment with flying colors. My cornea is healing well and my prednisone is being cut down from 6 times a day to 4 times a day.
Only bummer was an unexpected 1 and a half hour wait between stages of the appointment. Two more months of the shield.
In the next two months I get to slowly start removing the sutures one at a time!