It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly seven weeks since my eyes were zapped. Time has flown! 

Overall, my vision is pretty solid most of the time. Mornings are still a bit blurry—likely due to dryness—but things usually clear up as the day goes on. For example, it’s fuzzy when I hop on the bus, but by the time I get to work, I’m functioning just fine.The biggest surprise? My left eye is outperforming my right—which is wild because my right eye was doing great early on. In fact, it seems like my right eye has regressed a bit. How does that even happen?

 

On the morning of my 1-month post-op appointment (technically week 5), I noticed street signs looked blurry during my drive. I figured it was just a slow start to the day and loaded up on rewetting drops, hoping for improvement. Unfortunately, it didn’t help. At the appointment, they found significant ghosting/double vision in my right eye—something I hadn’t experienced since the first few days post-surgery. Meanwhile, my left eye was shining at 20/20. The doctor wasn’t sure what caused the sudden change but suspected it might be due to lack of sleep. I’d had bronchitis earlier that week and was on steroids, which definitely messed with my sleep. Thankfully, everything else looked good, and I got the green light to start weaning off the steroid drops. 🙌 Fingers crossed that helps my right eye bounce back.

 

On the bright side, I’ve been able to reduce the zoom on my computer back to 125%, and I’m working comfortably again. My phone is also back to normal—though I occasionally bump up the text size and bold it, I no longer need the absurdly large fonts.

 

A couple of weekends ago, we went on a trip, and it was amazing not having to pack glasses, backup contacts, or solution. Just grab the drops and go. So freeing!

 

I still catch myself thinking, “I need to take out my contacts,” every night. Old habits die hard. Eric’s had to remind me a few times—“You don’t wear contacts anymore!” 😂

 

Despite my complaints about the right eye, it’s actually better for close-up vision, so maybe that’s my trade-off now.

All in all, I’m really happy I had the surgery. It’s been a journey, but I’m grateful for the progress and excited for what’s ahead.

 

On September 19th, on our way to Wisconsin, a car ran a stop sign and T-boned us near Goodhue, MN. We were going 55 mph. Eric put the car in the ditch. We didn't flip, we didn't spin, we just stopped. All the air bags deployed and we ended up with just bruises, burns and lacerations. But we walked away...alive. The Murano is totaled. I'm so sad and mourning the loss of my most favorite car I ever owned. 

We are very grateful that Linda could come immediately to pick us up. We were half way between home and Mike and Linda's house so we told her to just take us to their house and continue our weekend that we had planned. 

After a week of being down a car, we bought a 2026 Nissan Rogue to replace the Murano. It is a very pretty blue. I told Eric I can't have another red car right now because of PTSD. The new Muranos are not as cool as my old red potato baby. 

Day 13 - First day back in the office. Thankfully I don't have light sensitivity as our office is very bright with lots of windows. However my vision is so blurry again. ARGH!  Trying to work in the office is very frustrating. My vision is crap. I bought a pair of +1.25 reading glasses so I can see my work emails. But I try not to use them because I'm not sure if that will screw up my recovery. I'm constantly using my drops. And for about 30 seconds after I put them in, I have amazing vision. If my vision ends up like that all the time, I will be happy. I'm just not there yet.

I went for my first walk/run since surgery and it went well. I have starburst/halos but that isn't anything new, I had them before surgery. The weird thing is they aren't rainbow anymore. I miss the rainbow halos. I'm still not technically cleared to run but I'm so slow...

Day 14 - I had perfect vision at 2:45 am. I was happy!  But I fell back to sleep and woke up in the same spot I was yesterday. WHY??   Don't get me wrong, my vision is WAY better than it was before surgery. I can see the TV very well and can function for the most part but looking at my work emails is such a struggle. I know this is a long recovery but... I'M IMPATIENT!

As of right now, my right eye is very good and my left eye is SO bad. I've been having many issues with my left eye so I'm not surprise. It is common for one eye to be lagging behind. But this is so far behind that I end up closing it a lot.