A little bit of something…and everything else

yesterday I had Intacs put ito my eyes. For those who don’t know what this is.. .go to www.nkcf.org. There’s some minimal information describing Keratoconus (the ey dieseasee i have prompting the mplants), and various treatments for KC.

anyway, yesterday went pretty smooth. 30 min suregery to cut open the eye and slid in the small plastic devices into my eyes. I was given several drops o nump the eye, and lube the eye, and some other things (infection, etc). i was also given a valium, but was able to take another if needed. i used a lot of meditation and deep breathing. It was more disorienting than painful oruncomfortable. I went home and my eye was a little red, when i got home I was able to see a little more clearly (w/ a 10power lense) and the redness wetnt down. I watched a couple movies cleaned the house and went to bed.

Today I woke up around 5am (about 4 hours earlier than I nromally wake up) feeling this excruciating pain in my eye. i realized that the goggles that they had given me to cover my eye while sleeping had slid off my face oand onto my eye. . who knows how long it was rubbign the eye.

When I rode to the doctor (big mistake, but I felt like I had no other option… although I could have called my dad who was off today…fuck!)  I got to the docs office and felt miserable. my sinus’ were running amuck all day, the eye drops were draining into my sunus giving me that soapy/medicine flavor… woohoo.

When I finally saw the doc, they did an eye exam and seemed to be positive. The doc told me that with the power 10 lense, my vision was at about a 13 diopter (normal vision is 0, most people with mild myopia or near sigtedness havea -3 and my normal vision w/o lenses or intacs is a -19 in that eye. Today it was -13..which is GOOD! He siad that that may continue to change as the eye heals and the lenses take. There is some mild “road rash” on the eye either from the surgery or from rubbing my eye overnight. He said more drops of the steroid, continue lubricating drops and keep them cool to help w/ the pain. he also gave me IB for the eye. and a patch that I tape over my eye at night. at least fora couple days.

I rode again to wokr because my eye felt good (of course… it was numb from more drops… duh). By the time I got to work, my eyes were killing me from the light, and from the exposure to the air. I’ve been sitting here in the dark hating the bright computer screen!

it’s feeling a little better, I’ve been dropping every two hours and it’s been doing well. I think I said that though.

Well, I will continue to write about my experience as the days go by. follow up apt #2 is on Tuesday.