Category Archives: 2017

So I got a letter from Iowa Lions Eye Bank and got to send a letter of gratitude the the donor’s family.

So today I got a letter from Iowa Lions Eye Bank to provide a letter of Gratitude to the donor family. It is something they are requiring me to do but its also something id be very willing to do after all the cornea that was transplanted had to come from somewhere and such acts of gratitude should not go unrecognized. Anyone recieving any sort of organ donation should thank the donor for their generosity simply ignoring the fact that some family had to loose a loved one to save your life is well beyond the point of rudeness.

The Note of gratitude is as follows

“Thank You so very much for your generous gift of vision. This gift is saving me from Keratoconus. I am so very sorry for your loss but rest assured your gift will not go to waste. It may have been a tragedy but at the very least some good was able to come from it.

Even the darkest night will end and then the sun will rise

Sincerely

Jeremiah Wenzel”

 

The hard part every night 

Every night for at least a month I will have to wear a shield to sleep as I had previously blogged about. In the interest of keeping my eye safe I keep my cats out of my room during the night.

This is my cat Peaches she’s a playful cat that also loves to cuddle. She can be such a loving and supportive cat and has helped me get past tough times. She really loves cuddling in bed at night and that makes it hard to have to kick her out at night but it’s for the best.

 

And off to my first weekly checkup 

Time sure does fly yesterday marks the first week since the surgery and today I have to go to one of my many weekly check ups.

 I have to go by bus so I take things extra cautious and keep my eye patch on while I wal to the bus station and then from the bus stop to the wolf eye clinic. 

It may take a bit more work to make sure streets are safe to cross but it beats risking a random event that could damage or infect the eye.

With the way I am feeling I expect this checkup to go well 

An Unexpected suprise

So after the surgery i was taking it easy  to recover. At an earlier blog post I also hinted that I was planning on slowly stepping up my Activity level. My activity level that I had before the surgery was 1,200 calories a day in excercise (this doesnt count your staying alive calories burned).

I use an Apple Watch to track what i burn in excercise. But being that i’m still recovering i will be starting off again at 600 and if that proves to be a strain i’ll be reducing it even lower still.

Anywho the suprise is that despite taking it easy with minimal activity I lost 4 pounds. I weighed myself 3 times to confirm as I didn’t quite belive this but I definately went from 223 to 219 pounds lol.