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KC -- 4/18/2002
It's been three and a half weeks since my surgery. On the most part I've been doing good. Starting this last friday or so, I started experiencing more of a discomfort. Because of my dry eyes, I have been putting Refresh Contacts in both eyes.
Tuesday and Wednesday the discomfort started getting worse. We finally got a hold of the nurse at Dr. Terry's office and talking to her discovered that using those eye-drops was not a good thing. Seems that they have a perservitive. I told her about my pain and the reduction in vision I've experienced. She thought that I should go see my opthomologist immediately!
So I called Dr. Coleman's office and they had me come up at 4:30 or so. I had to wait awhile and then they took a look at my eyes. My vision was 20/80 through the pinholes. Dr. C. looked at my eye for a long time and perceived that there was some swelling. We talked about it and she thought that most likely it was the chemical in the drops and not a rejection. She put me on the Prednisolone once every hour through tonight and then until I talk to her tomorrow.
I will, most likely, have to go up and see her tomorrow. She's going to call Dr. Terry and then contact me.
Pray for me. I do not want to go to Portland until my next appointment.
KC -- 4-19-2002
It took three calls to Dr. Coleman to figure out what I should do next. Turns out that Dr. Terry must have been in surgery or something, because he never returned Dr. C's call. that was too bad, but at least he was being kept abreast of the situation.
On the last call Dr. C. told me to go ahead and come up. So I did and she took a look at my eye. My swelling was down and my vision had improved a bit. 20/60 through the pinholes. She increased the time for the steroid drops to every 2 hours instead of once and hour. I'll do that through the weekend and then go see her on Monday.
I'm thinking that God is working on it. It really was not all that uncomfortable today and I was doing well with it. So Praise The Lord!
KC -- 4/22/2002
Monday, my day off, I went into Dr. C's office early -- 8:30 -- and she saw me. She had me look at the eyecharts and I was able to see 20/50 through the pinholes. The swelling wasn't too bad and appeared to be going down. She put me on the steroids 6 times a day, which for me worked out to every 3 hours, and said to come back on Friday.
So I am getting better, albeit slowly.
June 4th, 2002
Drove up to Wilbur this weekend. Driving one-eyed really wasn't that bad. We had fun and I was able to see well with just the one contact. My eye is feeling very good. No problems since the perservative problem in April. My next appointment is on the 10th. Wonder what Dr. Terry will think...
June 27th, 2002
Alot has happened the last three weeks. We went to Portland on the 10th. Took a friend of ours with us. It was much more enjoyable to have her to liven up the conversation. Made the 8 hours in the car a lot of fun.
Dr. Terry looked at my eye and to quote: "Wonderful, just wonderful!" The sutures are good and it's healing well. Earlier the nurse had refracted my eye to 20/30 or so and Dr. Terry wanted to know if I'd like glasses! *beams* I, of course, wanted glasses. He wrote out a perscription and said that I could get it filled when ever I was able to. Yay!!
The next Monday (all appointments are on Monday, 'cause that's my day off) I had an appointment in Richland with an optrician. I needed a new contact for the right eye and had made this appointment awhile ago.
Dr. Young looks at my glasses and thinks over what we told him. He decided that the best thing to do was to have a low prescription in my right contact and most of the prescription in the glasses lense. What would happen is that the contact would take care of the KC and the glasses would provide correction for my myopia.
Rob then proceeded to take a look at my contact fit and figure out what to change. Apparently Ken had done a great job and the eye hadn't changed much. After that, I went out and chose a pair of glasses.
They said that they should have it by the next Monday, so we made the appointment.
I spent the following week being very excited. When Monday came around, I was relieved. Couldn't stand much more suspense...
We got there and Dr. Y. popped the contact in. The curvature was incorrect, so he took a contact that he had on hand and polished it to the right curvature. Then it worked correctly!
I put the glasses on and was amazed! What a difference! I wasn't able to drive that day, but I have gotten used to actually being able to see out of both eyes. Praise the Lord that this is working!
So one more trip to Richland on Monday, and then I'll be set for awhile.
(side note: There! Got everything written and documented. Now to put it in html and put it on the web!)
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