With how things are going lately i’m going to attempt to start raising my activity level again starting Monday to help curb the few pounds i likely gained since my Cornea transplant and if I return to loosing some of the weight thats great but i’ll be starting out smaller. For those who don’t quite know me a few months before the surgery I splurged on an Apple Watch. I used it to track my activity and to use it to make life more convienient.

Between then and the time of surgery i went from 256 pounds to 223 pounds. I haven’t weighed myself since the surgery but i do expect to have gained a few pounds. Before i was spending 1,200 calories a day in excercise but I will only be going after 600 to start. I think when I further recover enough to return to the ful 1,200 routine i may only push for that till i get back to 222 and ease up on the activity so I can start to enjoy other activities such as playing EVE Online again.

Of course if this proves to be too much of a strain i’ll have to reduce things to a lower activity level as I am clear for walks and such putting too much strain can lead to rejection of the cornea graft and that would mean the end of all I have worked to make this sucessfull.

Tomorrow marks the first week after I had the DALK Cornea transplant. Very relieved i got to do the DALK method and not the PK method

Nothing much has changed in terms of recovery but the dry eye doesn’t seem to feel like it wants to go away. The less tech savvy viewers who haven’t installed my Certificate Authority Certificate may be noticing that they are not getting SSL related errors anymore. That’s because I’m now using LetsEncrypt SSL certificates obtained freely from https://www.letsencrypt.org a bit bummed out that i cant utilize a stronger bit strength but this will have to do as long as this blog is to be up

So I just happened to check my eye out and from what I can see there doesn’t seem to be any redness remaining at all.

All still seems to be going well except for a itchy feeling that feels like it’s deep inside my eye in a scale of 1-10 I’d rate the intensity at 2 thankfully it only seems to last for about 10 seconds and has only happened three times so far

Nothing has really changed today although the dryness of the eye is getting to feel a bit better. But overall nothing has really changed for better or worse but hey at least no sign of rejection yet and thats always good 🙂

So I checked my eyes out in a mirror like I should be doing regularly and the level of redness is reducing which is great because now I’ll have a definite sign of rejection if it comes back as redness of the eye is normal after the surgery but not after a while 

So day 2 after surgery and i can finally easily keep both eyes open. To make things better i think im finally starting to get an easier time with my eye drops and can get them in accurately and by myself.

Had bought an eye drop guide but it didn’t perform well as the light hole was too small and couldn’t get the drop aimed correctly. My eyes aren’t tearing up nearly as much as it was so i’m also taking the artificial tear drops for comfort and preventing dry eye.

So after a short nap im four drop does away from finishing the days drops (2 if you take account timings as 2 will be taking 5 mins apart while the other 2 5 mins a part a few hours later) and im finally able to keep both eyes stable and while vision is still bad i can actually start reading stuff big enough. Which is an improvent from the old next to nothing.

Still though its way too soon to judge on such a thing as it’ll be around 8 months for stable vision