Week 7.5 side effect report

While driving to work this morning, I noticed that the starbursts and halos are nearly gone from around bright lights when it's dark out. I still wish I had devised a way to measure halos and starbursts pre-op so I could tell when I'm back to my old level of artifacting.

Sometime in the wee hours of the morning today, I woke up briefly and rubbed my eye, and it felt very uncomfortable. So it appears that my eyes aren't yet very good at self lubrication at night. I've had no problems during the day with eye dryness. That's the first time in a while I've done the "rub dry eye during the night" thing, but if I'm honest I have to say I specifically try not to do any eye-rubbing at night because I know the discomfort might be there.

I haven't removed my 'virtual glasses' in quite a while.

My eyedrop-plan adherence is dropping - I've forgotten at least two in the last week. Much to my surprise, it gets harder to remember to do them the fewer I have to do every day.

7-week Macguyver - Still getting better :-)

I had thought through this week that, unbelievable as it may be, my eyesight is actually still getting better.

So I did a Macguyver test this morning to test that theory:

Left eye:
10pt: 80% (previous best: 58%. With glasses: not measured, I had no clue my vision would get good enough to care about 10pt letters)
12pt: 92% (previous best: 100%. With glasses: 67%)

So my 10pt acuity continues to improve with the left eye.

Right eye:
10pt: 97.1% (previous best: 92.5%)
12pt: 96.1% (previous best: 100%)

Hehe, I don't think I'm supposed to see the smaller letters better. I think I mistook a 12pt Y for a V.

5 weeks 5 days checkup

Eye pressures are stable since last week, so we're staying the course on steroid drops.

20/15 in the right eye.

A qualified 20/15 in the left eye (I got a letter wrong, confusing G with Q, but the optometrist said G's shouldn't even be on the test since the acuity required to distinguish between G and Q is greater than it should be).

5 weeks and 4 days Macguyver

Left eye:
10pt: 36% (previous best: 58%. Never tested with glasses)
12pt: 83% (previous best: 100%. Glasses: 67%)
All others: assumed 100%

Not bad for an end-of-day effort. Despite the regression from my past result with the left eye, it's still far ahead of what I had with glasses. The left eye has plateaued a bit, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's related to the "smidgen of prescription left" that the optometrist talked about last week. If it's like -0.1, it makes sense that accuracy improvement will halt, no matter how much the still-healing epithelial/corneal tissue clears up.

Right eye:
10pt: 92.5% (previous best: not tested)
12pt: 100% (previous best: 100%)

My right eye is unstoppable, apparently. Shrinking letters barely do anything to its scores.