Z had his annual eye checkup yesterday.  He has a good memory for trauma--as soon as I told him where we were going he asked, "are they going to put drops in my eyes?"  Poor kid, I don't like the dilation drops either.  Aside from having to hold him down screaming to get the drops in, he did very well for the rest of the exam.  Everyone was very ( Read more... )

They were able to get me pretty damn close to 20/20 at the ophthalmologist's office. This is exciting! I haven't seen this well in about 20 years ( Read more... )

( Cut for the faint of eye )

I knew I couldn't make it through the holiday season without some uncomfortable medical issue. Last year was the pregnancy, the year before was my eye surgery, and before that was the root canal. This year I figured Z's ear infection and the messy side effects to the amoxicillan would cover that base for me, but no. It had to be something ( Read more... )

The theme at the dance tonight was a 1950s sockhop. Poodle skirts, ponytails, white t-shirts and blue jeans, oh yeah. The music was all the stuff I grew up with my mom playing around the house--Rockin' Robin, Chantilly Lace, Rock Around the Clock--the stuff she calls "bubblegum rock n roll." Oh, it was grand. I was dancing really well, very ( Read more... )

Since my new cornea is healing so well, I got a new left eye prescription from the surgeon. Rather than spend hundreds of $$ on new glasses now, before everything has settled down completely, I just had the optician put a new lens in my existing frames ( Read more... )

Today's plan: drug up, go to opthamologist, have some stitches removed from my eye. Shake, get brunch, go to work ( Read more... )

I wear contact lenses--or lens, rather, since my eye surgery. It's going to take a long time for the new left cornea to heal enough to put a lens on it, so I mainly muddle along without binocular vision. Since my eyeglass prescription is almost 10 years old, I use it mainly as backup. I don't normally wear my glasses for more than the length of ( Read more... )

Had my one-month follow-up with the eye surgeon today. Everything looks fine and good and normal, and I get to go back in a month to make sure it continues that way.

I'm still wearing the eye patch for computer work. Between that and my typing glove, I'm starting to feel like the walking wounded.

I didn't take any pain meds today at all! I will take a Demerol to sleep tonight, since otherwise the eye shield keeps me awake. It seems silly to drug myself to sleep if I'm not in pain, but if I have to wear the damn thing, I have to sleep.