Previous PRK post here (2 week). Read next PRK post here (4 week).

Late, I know. Thanks to Chris for reminding me to post something. To be fair I was going crazy in South Beach and the last thing I was thinking about was blogging. Actually, that’s the first point I wanted to make: my eyes are now to the point where I don’t have to worry about them anymore. While I was on vacation I was seeing well enough to enjoy the beach and the scenery as much as if I had been wearing my contacts. I am not light sensitive (although walking suddenly from a dark room into bright sunlight is a bit painful)- but I have been dutifully wearing sunglasses as my doctor instructed. The edges around objects are started to become crisper at further and further distances. Near vision is completely back, but I am finding that it takes longer for me to adjust between far and close up (hopefully this goes away with time…)

In terms of medications, I  have been using the steroid drops twice a day in both eyes. This coming week I will drop down to once a day. I find that my eyes aren’t getting as dry as they have been, but I pop in some artificial tears whenever I get a chance because it feels good.

I went in for my 3 week check up this Monday morning and I swear it was the fastest doctor’s appointment I have ever had. A nurse checked my vision with one of those cover-up-each-eye shields, then asked me to read the letters with both eyes open. I was definitely more confident with both eyes working together, and apparently scored a 20/20. Hot damn. A huge shit-eating grin spread across my face when I heard that. 3 weeks ago I could barely stumble around without glasses!! The doctor came in, looked at my eyes to check for inflammation and told me everything was progressing as expected, nothing to worry about. Said he’ll see me in 2 months. I was in and out of that place in 8 minutes flat.

I did have a scary night driving experience on Sunday night coming back from a full day of travelling. My flight didn’t get in until 11:30 pm, so here I was driving home at past midnight. Not fun. The combination of tiredness, eye strain, eye dryness from the plane, dark, and oncoming headlights was a nightmare. I don’t think I have ever concentrated quite so hard on driving. Definitely not a great experience. The whole combination of factors contributed to enormous halo effects and left me squinting and driving very slowly…

So to summarize the changes from last week: the clarity factor far away is the most noticeable difference, with edges appearing sharper (although not completely to where they were with contacts). I have been swimming in both the ocean and the pool and have not had any issues, although I did not try opening my eyes underwater. To be honest, I did miss a handful of my scheduled steroid drops but have not had any healing issues. I have been kind to my eyes and given myself plenty of artificial drops and I have been religiously wearing sunglasses whenever outside.