As of today I have only four months remaining for my anti rejection eye drops.
Once I finish the eye drops I am pretty much fully recovered at this point.
As of today I am four months away from full recovery
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My replacement contact came
Today I finally got my replacement contact and get to reset the adaptation process for my left eye.
I expected to feel it as much as I did when I first started but I can barely feel the contact already. The adaptation process should be smooth this time around provide that I don’t loose it again.
Will definitely be having my fit corrected or look into getting a scleral contact in the event of future issues
Hoping that my replacement left eye contact arrives soon
A week ago I had the unfortunate accident of having my left eye contact popping out and failed to recover it. It popped out while attempting to determine if my right eye contact popped out as I couldn’t feel it and thought for sure I had lost it.
I am expecting the replacement to arrive any day now.
My contacts are in!!!
So just got home from receiving my contacts.
I CAN FINALLY READ STUFF WITH MY LEFT EYE!! Though still not yet perfect time will tell when ive fully adjusted to these contacts if they will get any better. I definitely can feel them in my eyes but that’s to be expected.
I can tolerate the presence of the contacts. In a few weeks to a month I should be completely comfortable with these rgp contacts as the primary downside to rgp contacts is the adaptation process.
Today is the day
Today I finally get my contacts and can start the process of adapting to them.
I’ll only be able to wear them for 4 hours the first day and then an extra hour per day until I can go a full day.
It can take two weeks to a month to get the optimal comfort out of the rgp contacts but for the quality of vision and reduced risk of common contact complications it will be worth it.
One week until I get my contacts and…
Just one more week until I get my contacts.
Today also marks five more months of needing my anti rejection eye drops as well.
So I got a confusing call today from Wolfe Clinic
I got a call from Wolfe Eye Clinic as my contacts came in. However they want me to wait until the 27th for another contact fitting which now I think about it probably just to confirm that it’s a good fit.
At least it’s a bit more time to get practice up on. Just expected a shorter wait.
Getting excited for my contacts
So during the weekend I have been practicing the motions to get my test contact in. As per instructions I am only to actually put it in during business hours. My little incident the very first attempt highlighted the importance of the matter.
On Monday I am pretty sure that I will be successful in getting the contact in. I always figured the hard part would be getting the contact to stay on the finger but it turns out getting it in is the hard part lol.
Kinda going to miss glasses but this seems to be the only option to get worthwhile vision out of my left eye which is surprising as as it stood I didn’t think the vision of the left eye would be bad enough that glasses wouldn’t help. But at the same time I would have likely have had to move on to contacts sometime in the future anyway and life with contacts does have its pros and cons.
Tomorrow I am going to be fitted for contacts and I just realized something
Tomorrow at 11:45 am I will be getting fitted for contacts at Wolfe Eye Clinic.
It also occurred to me that I am done with the follow up appointments for my cornea transplant and only have to get a yearly check up.
Appointment went well and verdict is in
My appointment went well as expected.
It has been determined that contacts would be my best bet in terms of overall vision. This isn’t all that surprising given the vision level of my left eye.
I get fitted for them on Friday I’ll then see if both eyes are getting contacts or if I’ll be going in a hybrid setup with the contact in left eye and current glasses for the right.
I also found out that I will be discontinuing eye drops in six months as healing is going as expected.
In a way I think I’ll miss my glasses but if things are going to be better with contacts then so be it.