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What I have noticed most about having my eyes operated on is that I have pretty eyes.
It has been 22 years behind glasses and contact lenses. After the surgery, I looked and looked for the mark where they cut the cornea, but I can't see it. And then I stopped. I stopped looking to find something in my eye, or whether my lenses were in right, or whether my makeup was on right or what was that smudge on my glasses. I looked at my own clear hazel eyes without anything on them or around them or in front of them.
They're pretty. Nothing unusual by any standard, about as average as eyes can get. But they're beautiful in the way that eyes are.
I went to that check up with the eye doctor (word?) Tuesday, and told him I was having trouble with far-off words. He looked and ran a couple of quick tests. "Well, you're not nearsighted anymore, but you have astigmatism."
He said that can change a lot as the eye heals, because the eye is so fluid. He advised to wait, keep coming back to check every few months, and I'll either end up with a very low level glasses scrip for driving or he'll 'go back in' and do further correction.... or they'll correct themselves.
Whatever way, I still don't have to have anything in front of my eyes for ordinary things, like getting a cup of coffee, getting to the bathroom to take a shower. I just really hate night deliveries right now. Two-inch numbers in the dark with astigmatism ... I might as well be trying to find houses by braille. Otherwise, driving is great. Peripheral vision, being able to see out of the corner of my eyes (rigid contacts hurt when you do that, and sometimes they slide off your cornea and make a little suction cup to your sclera and that hurts like a m-f and if you're in traffic.... aieeee!) is just loverly.
It has been 22 years behind glasses and contact lenses. After the surgery, I looked and looked for the mark where they cut the cornea, but I can't see it. And then I stopped. I stopped looking to find something in my eye, or whether my lenses were in right, or whether my makeup was on right or what was that smudge on my glasses. I looked at my own clear hazel eyes without anything on them or around them or in front of them.
They're pretty. Nothing unusual by any standard, about as average as eyes can get. But they're beautiful in the way that eyes are.
I went to that check up with the eye doctor (word?) Tuesday, and told him I was having trouble with far-off words. He looked and ran a couple of quick tests. "Well, you're not nearsighted anymore, but you have astigmatism."
He said that can change a lot as the eye heals, because the eye is so fluid. He advised to wait, keep coming back to check every few months, and I'll either end up with a very low level glasses scrip for driving or he'll 'go back in' and do further correction.... or they'll correct themselves.
Whatever way, I still don't have to have anything in front of my eyes for ordinary things, like getting a cup of coffee, getting to the bathroom to take a shower. I just really hate night deliveries right now. Two-inch numbers in the dark with astigmatism ... I might as well be trying to find houses by braille. Otherwise, driving is great. Peripheral vision, being able to see out of the corner of my eyes (rigid contacts hurt when you do that, and sometimes they slide off your cornea and make a little suction cup to your sclera and that hurts like a m-f and if you're in traffic.... aieeee!) is just loverly.
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Date: 2002-06-16 01:09 pm (UTC)