In February, 2005, I had PRK surgery performed on my eyes to correct my vision.\u00a0 The surgery was successful even though I needed to wear the contact bandage an extra three days.\u00a0 My eyes corrected to 20\/15.\u00a0 I did need reading glasses, but I needed those before the surgery.<\/p>\n
Less than a year later, I was getting headaches at work.\u00a0 I began to suspect eye strain on the computer.\u00a0 During a follow-up exam, I asked about it, and sure enough, I needed bi-focals — for the close-up of reading and the middle distance of the computer.<\/p>\n
For some time now, my vision has felt a little off.\u00a0 At the beginning of the month, I had an eye appointment.\u00a0 My vision is still technically 20\/15, but I have to strain to get to it, and it wasn’t very sharp.\u00a0 So the optometrist doing my exam wrote me a prescription to “sharpen” my vision.\u00a0 The glasses came today.\u00a0 They’re great for close-up and they have sharpened my distance vision.\u00a0 Unfortunately, that they aren’t good for anything in the middle distance.\u00a0 She tried to give me some range on the reading side, but it just isn’t enough for the end of my arm reading of looking at a computer screen.\u00a0 And, to use the bifocal part on the glasses, I have to tilt my head way back.\u00a0 I can see why hubby hates my computer set up now.<\/p>\n
I guess I might have to go back and get this re-evaluated.<\/p>\n
Why am I calling this a PRK update?\u00a0 Because it seems my eyes are drifting back toward their natural tendency from before the surgery.\u00a0 However, before the surgery, I was something like -5.6 on my prescription.\u00a0 Today’s distance glasses are -1.0.\u00a0 That’s a very minor correction.\u00a0 It’s as if I’m in second or third grade all over again.\u00a0 At that rate, in\u00a0 about three years or less, I’ll need them for driving.\u00a0 In seven years or so, I’ll be legally blind without them again.\u00a0 That would mean I’d gotten a ten to twelve year window of success from my eye surgery.<\/p>\n
I’m not sorry I had it done, but I wonder if they knew this.\u00a0 Or, I wonder if this is what the doc meant when he said I was a prime candidate for needing a redo.\u00a0 I initially thought the redo would come within six months.\u00a0 Maybe he meant ten years.\u00a0 I didn’t know enough to ask at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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