While I should be refraining from straining myself or lifting anything heavy I can still go on my walks. Before the transplant I had my Apple Watch set with an activity goal of 1,200 calories burned in a day but being I’m having to keep it easy for now I’ve lowered the goal to 600. With that in mind I managed to meet the weekly goal (simply meeting the daily goal for a week straight) for the first time since the surgery.

So a few days ago I got this blog registered on google search console to see about getting a bit more traffic and stumbled on an article about this Emmy winning actor Mandy Patinkin who was diagnosed with Keratoconus in 1982 was on Chicago Hope playing the role of a doctor. She was being treated with gas permeable hard contact lenses. One day while driving her instance of the disease progressed to the point where she was too far along for the contacts and didn’t realize it until her cornea ruptured.

This story reminds me of how my situation started off had I have listened to the quack at LensCrafters who wanted me in contacts even though I preferred glasses. The LensCrafters optometrist also didn’t seem to know any proper medical terminology and would only say that I have a wavy cornea. Had I not have gotten a second opinion what happened to Mandy could have easily have happened to me especially when Wolfe Eye Clinic has spotted minor scarring on their initial examination after being referred from my Second opinion Millers Family Eye Care which is where my grandmother went but the location wasn’t ideal.

It is really important that you get a second opinion if you’re ever in doubt or you’re facing something serious doing so could save you so much misery or even your life.

Today has been rather uneventful in terms of recovery but it is to be expected to be quite slow. After yesterday’s incident I am back to making sure I keep my eye patch on when I am on my daily walks even though the incident may not have been related. The decision paid off after nearly getting sand in my good eye thanks to wind and sandy roads/sidewalks. So ya definitely making sure I keep my left eye safe.

So somehow a tiny object got into my left eye (the eye that had the transplant) but thankfully I managed to wash it out with my over the counter artificial tear drops without issue. Had me really scared for a minute there.

So today I got a letter from Iowa Lions Eye Bank to provide a letter of Gratitude to the donor family. It is something they are requiring me to do but its also something id be very willing to do after all the cornea that was transplanted had to come from somewhere and such acts of gratitude should not go unrecognized. Anyone recieving any sort of organ donation should thank the donor for their generosity simply ignoring the fact that some family had to loose a loved one to save your life is well beyond the point of rudeness.

The Note of gratitude is as follows

“Thank You so very much for your generous gift of vision. This gift is saving me from Keratoconus. I am so very sorry for your loss but rest assured your gift will not go to waste. It may have been a tragedy but at the very least some good was able to come from it.

Even the darkest night will end and then the sun will rise

Sincerely

Jeremiah Wenzel”

Every night for at least a month I will have to wear a shield to sleep as I had previously blogged about. In the interest of keeping my eye safe I keep my cats out of my room during the night.

This is my cat Peaches she’s a playful cat that also loves to cuddle. She can be such a loving and supportive cat and has helped me get past tough times. She really loves cuddling in bed at night and that makes it hard to have to kick her out at night but it’s for the best.

so Just as it se ems I have finished with the non stop dry eye it would appear its coming back with a vengeance lol.

So I’ve been having this weird happening that despite the drops going into my eye and doesn’t run down my face or anything I been tasting my drops occasionally several minutes after the dosage lol. Turns out eye drops taste terrible lol and before you think it no I haven’t been putting any in my mouth 😛

Ever since the checkup it seems that my dry eye spell is finally coming to an end. I still get it a bit when I am taking my drops but by the time I get to the artificial tears it clears up.