Pictures of my eye (10 weeks and 5 days after opperation)

Here's a picture of my eye taken about a week(?) after the operation.
And here it is again today:

It's a lot clearer, which is why the stiches are much more visible. In news that is not so good, today the vision corrected with glasses was only 6/9. My optometrist said that if this didn't improve it would be "disappointing", however he was not confident that it would improve a lot. 6/9 is (just) good enough to drive a car and isn't a disaster - but I was hoping it would be better. Its also not as comfortable as I would like, but the optometrist is confident that as the last of the healing completes it will become more comfortable.

My astigmatism today was still 2.75 - however the axis it was on had rotated somewhat. I will go back in two weeks and see if it has stabilised enough for me to get glasses prescribed.

Yes their is blue light shining on my eye! :)

Operation day and the following early morning

Everything seems to have gone fine. At least the doctor said he was 'very pleased' with the way the operation went. Not that I saw him after my operation but this was relayed to me by the Anaestheticist. I have yet to open my eye. The Anaestheticist and staff were all very nice.

Just before the operation Dr malood said he was confident that I would get 6/9 (20/30) vision from the eye - enough to comfortable drive with the eye. I would be quiet happy with this result, but am wondering if maybe I might not even get a little better.

There is not a lot of be said by me about the operation. I was given a general anaesthetic intravenously which took a few minutes to take affect. I was surprised that they didn't even get my exact weight before hand. They also stuck a needle into my eye and gave me a local anaesthetic in the eye however which apparently meant the general anaesthetic didn't have to be too strong. I hadn't expected this, but the cornea is the most sensitive part of the body they tell me and I wasn't going to argue.

The local anaesthetic was supposed to wear off around midnight, it's 7:30 AM as I update this and the terrible pain some people get has failed to materialise. I was told I may not feel much pain...the nerves have been cut so they cannot send pain signals now and it will take a year or two to grow back my reading on the net would have be believe. Actually I am still a little wobbly on my fee and weird feeling but I have had worse plain in my eye several times this year then what I have now, it is a little sore but not very and I haven't bothered with the painkillers yet but maybe I will as I think it may still be getting slightly sorer as time passes.

I hardly slept the night before and only slept for a few hours tonight yet am not tired. Odd. I must have really power napped with that general anaesthetic!

In a few hours I will take the bandage off and it will be interesting to see what my vision is like. My vision however is expected to change - possibly for the worse before improving again - over a few weeks, and for the first month or so by tightening and loosening stitches they can adjust the cornea and my vision if necessary...it's very likely that this will be necessary. I am booked in to see Dr Maloof again in a bit over a week. Hopefully the date is written down somewhere cause I don't remember it! I will also see my local optometrist a couple of days before then who may be able to shed light on whether the cornea will need to be adjusted and if so how.

I am pretty happy and excited to see what my vision will be!

I feel a little odd; I might lie down for a little. I do however feel much much muich better then some of the testimonies I found online about similar - but not exactly the same - procedures. I am not sure if my doctor was better, the difference in procedure is responsible, or maybe the operation just did go really well, but in any case no complaints from me!

[Update:  When I said I didn't see Dr Maloof after the operation; there was a rumour that he talked to me when the anathetic was still wearing off, but I have absolutely no recollection of this.  However as he let tme arrange to have the opperation start a little later then he initially planned, and had a following operation I have no complaints that he didn't talk to me afterwards.  He seems to have done his job well for which I am gratefuly!]