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Day 1

Today feels about the same. Scratchy, watery, blurry light sensitive like yesterday evening. My appointment is in DC for my post-op exam and my dad’s taking me today. Thank god for family nearby to drive me! It’s also a cloudy rainy day today, so sunlight shouldn’t be an issue... right? right?

Last time I checked, wunderground had today as 75%+ cloud cover. Well that 25% of minor light shine through felt like light beams into my eye lids. I had a wide brim hat and glasses that only allowed 12% light to pass through in 75% cloud cover and it still felt as if I was walking straight into the high beams of a headlight. I went back inside, grabbed a towel and put it over my head and went into the car. Other drivers may have found it weird to see a passenger with a towel over their heads, but I could care less. It was bright as hell out there.

Side Note: Essential items to have for the first weekend you have PRK:

- A Towel

- The darkest tinted wraparound glasses you can find

- A dark wide-brimmed hat

- Non-scented non-lotioned hand-sanitizer

- Tissues, at least 10 boxes

- Your choice of OTC pain reliever

- 1000mg Vitamin C + Multi-vitamin (both essential)

- Night eye-shields, you know the black ones that cover your eyes. What you want is to wear your eye shields for protection and put these over them so you are completely blacked out. This saves you from the bulkiness of lugging around a blanket or towel everywhere you go

Now back on topic....

Got to the doctors office in DC and my eyes were a mess. Blurry and watery with tears streaming down my face. They checked me in and then I waited to get called in. Thankfully it was fast. Went into the room and they gave me a miracle eye drop... OMG, how one drop can change a life and make everything feel good. She placed an eye drop in both my eyes and it was night an day, the scratchiness, pain and tears went away in 10 seconds.... They then got me to read the lines from the Snellen Eye Chart. 20/30 Day 1. HELL YEAH! Coming from 20/400+ in both eyes, I won’t lie... the artificial tears couldn’t mimic the real thing that was about to come out from actually feeling like I could see and be free from glasses and contacts. After taking measurements and recording where I was, I met up with Dr. Kang who again proceeded to check both my eyes to see if the contacts were firmly in place. He proceeded to tell me that I was healing ahead of schedule. Damn straight. I was adherent to every single recommendation and was dousing my eyes with 2-3x the amount of artificial tears to avoid drying and promote healing so much that I was crying a river every 30 minutes. He said I was well ahead of normal healing and the process was already halfway done in a day. That felt reassuring. After talking to him a little more, he said to continue doing everything I was already doing and that tonight would be another painful night and to get through it. Again he said the magic green bottle was only a last resort.

Well. After that, it was back home for me. Thankfully the numbing drop that I got lasted another 8 hours. I’m not sure it was supposed to last that long, but it did for me and I felt relief for most of the day. No pain, no irritation, just sensitivity to light and some feeling of if my contact was loose. Everything went fine the rest of the day,and I attribute this to that magical eye drop.

Into the night I continued taking my regimen of 3 eye drops and dousing my eyes with artificial tears. Every time I would wake up prematurely I would have artificial tears and tissues nearby to use. I was covered.

End of Day 1: Vision 20/30 or close to it, feeling good

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