In six days it will mark the one year mark since my cornea transplant. My vision of the eye may not have been what I have liked but it is still far better than before and it evaded the real possibility of the cornea tearing.
My appointment was today and things went well. The vision test portion of my left eye was showing a decent improvement despite thinking my vision of the left eye didn’t seem to change. It went a lot better then my last test.
Furthermore I was expecting to have two sutures removed leaving two behind for my next appointment. It turns out the doctor seemed fit to remove all four sutures remaining in the eye.
My astigmatism is a bit higher then the doctor was hoping for but its not surprising given that cornea transplants and cpu’s have this in common. Your operating on a lottery system. In the cpu world each individual cpu can be a little different in terms of ability to overclock due to the quality fluctuations of silicon. This means that some cpu’s can be overclocked more then others.
This relates to cornea transplants as only your original cornea was made for your eye specifically and every other cornea being transplanted can leave different results depending on how close of a match you happen to get.
Aside from my 4 times a day for 3 days for my antibiotic drops my anti rejection drops are reduced to 1 time a day again as well. Overall healing is going smoothly and getting closer to the edge of the time frame where the majority of cornea rejections occur (while rejection can happen anytime they tend to happen within the first 18 months)
Tomorrow 12:30 pm will be my first Eye appointment of the year.
I anticipate having 2 more sutures removed. I will be down to 2 remaining sutures after this. Things appear to be going smoothly still.
My next appointment is coming up next week. I expect to have two more sutures removed.
It is also my first eye appointment of the year and I will be down to two remaining sutures after the appointment.
Today I am one month away from reaching the one year mark since my cornea transplant. While I still have four sutures remaining I should have two remaining by the time that the milestone arrives.
My next appointment is January 9 at which point I will have two more sutures removed leaving two remaining.
So I’m out on my walk and it occurred to me that this New Years will be the first time in ages that I won’t be having real champagne.
Giving that I’m still recovering from my cornea transplant and still on anti rejection drops I refuse to let anything put me at risk of rejection and that means no alcohol. Maybe in 2019 will be different.
Only four more sutures to go!
So on the rare occasion my right eye needs a dose of artificial tears eye drops for some reason it’s sooooo much more difficult to put them in compared to the left for some reason I get nervous and accuracy becomes hard lo.
Sucks dealing with poor vision until it’s absorbed
Had my appointment and am pleased to report that it went smoothly and had two more sutures removed which means that only four more sutures remains 🙂
Eye pressure is going down so my anti rejection drops got raised to two times a day. Overall a good sign of progress
Tuesday is my next appointment and hopefully I will get good news. I will be getting two more sutures removed and should only have four left. Other than an unusually dry day I have been fine so far so not expecting anything bad
For the first time and hopefully the last my left eye has been rather dry. I’d use my artificial tears drops only to need more about 25 minutes later. I even had to stop what I was doing at my temp work to get the drops in. While I value my work the safety of my eyes is more important.
Keeping a close eye on any redness appearing in the eye and will be leaving for the Wolfe eye clinic pronto but so far so good only seems dry: