Progress Report!
Asslamo Allaikum,
My eye-sight is not that bad -1.25 & -1.50 but due to heavy astigmatism I get headaches if I drive or take the train and it doesn’t matter whether I us my glasses or not.
OK! So I get there in the morning and I must admit I started to get 2nd thoughts about this & when I was under the machine, I was like “Forget this”!
You are supposed to focus on a flashing orange dot (Laser) & the guy cuts the top of your cornea and removes the flap and I moved so on my left eye the FLAP went side-ways (& you can feel it) ...So the Consultant (who is a friend of a friend) goes, “Mr Khan, you are very fidgety” ...he had to reposition it...
Then you hear the Laser burning your eye & you smell but don’t fell anything!
The Surgeon playing with the FLAP on your eye is the most uncomfortable thing I have EVER gone through....Its not painful, its just uncomfortable and queasy
After the surgery you eyes play tricks on you...your vision keeps going from perfect to very bad (and this will happen for the first few days)...
I came hope and just fell asleep because eyelids were so heavy & then when I woke up when my eyes were so swelled up that I couldn’t even open them, meanwhile you have 3 different kinds of drops to keep putting in...
I had to sleep again because eyes are so heavy, can’t keep them open...
I have a lens in my eye because I have gone for LASEK which means:
1. More Pain
2. Longer recovery
3. Lens to cover the very top of the eye so it can heal
But they haven’t cut my cornea and created a FLAP which never heals (just sticks due to surface tension); I don’t like the idea of something lose in my eye
4-5 patients out of a 100% may require touching up & I hope that I am not one of them...
I am not supposed to be on the computer or drive so I better write this quick before driving to the Masjid for Maghrib.