A rollercoaster ride of vision

66 hour update:

My vision is fairly sharp this morning (still ghosty and smeary though). From the point of my post yesterday complaining about declining vision until I went to bed though, it had steadily gotten worse.

I have two guesses as to why it is better this morning:

1) The corneal epithelium has closed up, so I don't have a bunch of healing crap in front of my pupil

2) This is the normal morning-to-night swing that I have read about in other PRK recovery blogs.

Clearly, I'm reeeeaaallly hoping it's #1. My day-3 checkup appointment is in 90 minutes, so I'm hoping the contact can come out then. Otherwise, it's another 24 hours of closed eyes and being really careful.

Also, despite the opthmalogist's prediction of crappy vision coming true yesterday, her prediction that there may be associated pain/discomfort did not. So I'm now mostly past the point in the recovery where others have experienced pain, and still haven't had any. Woohoo!

Macguyver test results. Right eye today:

12pt: 3% (pre-op: 4%. glasses: 90%)

18pt: 58% (pre-op: 3%. glasses: 97%)

27pt: 77% (pre-op: 4%. glasses: 100%)

40pt: 100% (pre-op: 38%. glasses: 100%)

60pt: 92% (pre-op: 69%. glasses: 100%)

91pt: 91% (pre-op: 98%. glasses: 100%)

136pt: 100% (pre-op: 100%. glasses: 100%)

205pt: 100% (pre-op: 98%. glasses: 100%)

A little bit worse than yesterday's left-eye test, which aligns with how I qualitatively feel. This morning is my first day with very well-defined ghosts. I've got a ghost at 6 o'clock and 4 o'clock. When doing the macguyver test, I actually found that the ghosts were sometimes in better focus than the real number. However, when the letter got to be a certain size (60pt and 91pt), the ghosts would sometimes cover up and interfere with the real letter, hence why I screwed up in the bigger letters. If I got stuck with this quality of vision forever it wouldn't be the end of the world, but wouldn't be pleasant.