The vision part of the exam didn’t go quite as anticipated but my cornea is healing good enough that I got to have two sutures removed.
While my predinisolone has been cut to three times daily I have to take antibiotic eye drops 4 times a day for 3 days.
Why must my left eyes vision be at its worst on my appointments lol but with two sutures gone things should improve more.
Tomorrow I have my next appointment with my ophthalmologist and if all goes as expected I will be getting the first of my sutures removed. I will also get to find out if I can stop putting on the eye shield when I am going to sleep for the night. I will also find out if they will be adjusting my eye drops or not.
Definitely making progress on my long road of recovery. The first four months of the 18 month recovery is going quite well so far at least that’s what things seem to be. I am still in the period where if I’m going to reject the cornea its going to happen between now and the first 18 months. Giving the way things are going on and the rejection rate of the DALK procedure one can be rather optimistic with the way things are going for me :).
In two weeks I’ll finally be able to get one of my sutures removed. Getting kind of excited but remaining cautious as while things are going great so far but for the first 18 months post transplant I’ll be in the prime time of cornea rejection as rejection tends to happen within the first 18 months or years later.
So far so good however things are going great and progress is being made. One can anticipate success overall given the low rate of rejection overall.
So just a few minutes ago I took my last dose of prednisone of the day but for whatever reason despite getting the drop in my left eye on the first try which hasn’t happened in a while. The drop of prednisone somehow squirted into the right eye (the eye that did not need it) from inside my face somehow which was midly uncomfortable AND made my vision very blurry.
To make matters worse I was just starting a match on Titanfall 2 and had to go through half the round barely able to see what I was doing. This has never happened to me before and was a scary experience. Thought for sure I ruined it for the team but we managed to barely win lol.
OH and on top of that some of the drop drained into my mouth so I also got to taste the drops which did not taste good lolz
now that my predinisolone drops have been reduced from 6 times a day to 4 times that means a new schedule. The oddity of the new schedule is that I will now finish my drops later instead of sooner but less often. every 4 hours instead of 2 hours delays my final drop 2 hours
Just got out of the appointment with flying colors. My cornea is healing well and my prednisone is being cut down from 6 times a day to 4 times a day.
Only bummer was an unexpected 1 and a half hour wait between stages of the appointment. Two more months of the shield.
In the next two months I get to slowly start removing the sutures one at a time!
So tomorrow is my monthly checkup. One item under consideration is weather or not to reduce the amount of times a day i need my predinisone eye drops. It’s currently at six times a day. I expect things to go well my left eye can see most text on my tv though struggles a bit on smaller text and it can almost read off my iPad so things are looking fairly optimistic.
I anticipate to be able to start the removal of the sutures soon giving that I was able to do DALK and not PK thus recovery time is much shorter. Once removal of the sutures starts its only one at a time and is a real long process in itself. But we’ll just see what the doctor says on my appointment. I may even get a surprise to be able to get my new prescription setup. Got my eyes on a new eye glasses frame and I’m super stoked to eventually get it.
Below is a pic of the frames i want so bad
Today marks the first full month since my cornea transplant!. Things are going well so far. My next appointment at Wolfe Eye Clinic is in 5 days I might even get to stop using the shield when its bedtime.
As predicted I am noticing the overall vision of my left eye switching from better to worse. The overall difference isn’t all that much. This is within expectations and won’t be getting stable vision for quite some time.
My right eye does similar decent vision when I wake up and definitely need my glasses by the evening. Overall there has been very little changes going on for the past week and likely won’t see any changes until my next appointment on the 28th. In this case no news is good news in the long trip of recovery.
So when I went back to my semi normal routine but cutting the activity level in half going from 1,200 calories burned a day to 600 I expected to maintain my current weight or slowly gain. But it turns out that I am still slowly loosing weight. I started off at 256 pounds now I am 218.