ICL 1-day and 1-week Follow-ups

Things are still going really great with my ICL.  I'm so happy that I did it.  The day after surgery I went in for my 1-day follow-up.  On the way down to Salt Lake I was carefully reading all the signs on stores, etc.  I would ask Bryan what he could see compared to what I could see.  Bryan has always had great eyesight, and he was surprised when I could read things that even he couldn't!  I was thrilled.  At the appointment they checked my eye pressure...anything under 20 is good.  The day of surgery I was at 10 in one eye and 11 in the other eye, then at my 1-day follow-up I was at 14 in both eyes.  Also, my left eye had some inflammation on surgery day, but that looked much better at the 1-day follow-up.  When he checked my vision I was 20/20 in my left eye and 20/15 in my right eye!  I was so excited!

Since then I've been doing really well.  No pain, occasional dryness, and lots of eyedrops--3 prescriptions, 3 times a day each, plus I do artificial tears for any irritation.  But it will drop off to 2 prescriptions tomorrow, then 1 prescription next week.  After 3 weeks I'll have no more eyedrops--just artificial tears as needed. 

My 1-day follow-up was with my ophthamologist at the Eye Institute in SLC, but the rest of my follow-ups are just local with my optometrist.  Today was my 1-week follow-up and I'll admit that I was a little bit nervous because I have noticed that things were not as "crisp" and sharp looking as the first day post surgery.  For example, things like looking at the clock on the stove was a little blurry and I was pretty bummed out about it.  At the appointment today the 20/20 line was a bit fuzzy; I got only about half the letters right and even those were ones I just guessed at.  The 20/40 line was OK.  When I expressed my worry, my optometrist said that it could be one of a couple reasons:  first is that I may have just a bit of swelling from the surgery and the second (and most likely) is the eyedrops.  I am using an anti-bacterial, an anti-inflammatory, and a steroidal eye drop.  Any of those could affect my vision and make things just a bit blurry.  So he thinks that it'll get better once I'm all done.  My next appointment is in 3 weeks, so I'm crossing my fingers that I'll be back to 20/15, or at least 20/20.  My eye pressure measured at 16 in each eye today.  Again, I'm hoping it'll go back down when the eyedrops are done.

So that's it.  I'm still really happy with things and I think that after the eyedrops are finished it will just be wonderful!