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.

Would be nice if this ithciness bit would at the very least be consistant. Every now and then I get an itchiness sensation just after i take my drops. But its very random in occurance which is both a blessing and some oddity that has me bugged as to why its happening lol.

As of now I have used up the Vigamox and now I am no longer needing to use it from now on it’s prednisone and artificial tears.

While I should be refraining from straining myself or lifting anything heavy I can still go on my walks. Before the transplant I had my Apple Watch set with an activity goal of 1,200 calories burned in a day but being I’m having to keep it easy for now I’ve lowered the goal to 600. With that in mind I managed to meet the weekly goal (simply meeting the daily goal for a week straight) for the first time since the surgery.

So a few days ago I got this blog registered on google search console to see about getting a bit more traffic and stumbled on an article about this Emmy winning actor Mandy Patinkin who was diagnosed with Keratoconus in 1982 was on Chicago Hope playing the role of a doctor. She was being treated with gas permeable hard contact lenses. One day while driving her instance of the disease progressed to the point where she was too far along for the contacts and didn’t realize it until her cornea ruptured.

This story reminds me of how my situation started off had I have listened to the quack at LensCrafters who wanted me in contacts even though I preferred glasses. The LensCrafters optometrist also didn’t seem to know any proper medical terminology and would only say that I have a wavy cornea. Had I not have gotten a second opinion what happened to Mandy could have easily have happened to me especially when Wolfe Eye Clinic has spotted minor scarring on their initial examination after being referred from my Second opinion Millers Family Eye Care which is where my grandmother went but the location wasn’t ideal.

It is really important that you get a second opinion if you’re ever in doubt or you’re facing something serious doing so could save you so much misery or even your life.

Today has been rather uneventful in terms of recovery but it is to be expected to be quite slow. After yesterday’s incident I am back to making sure I keep my eye patch on when I am on my daily walks even though the incident may not have been related. The decision paid off after nearly getting sand in my good eye thanks to wind and sandy roads/sidewalks. So ya definitely making sure I keep my left eye safe.

So somehow a tiny object got into my left eye (the eye that had the transplant) but thankfully I managed to wash it out with my over the counter artificial tear drops without issue. Had me really scared for a minute there.