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Update on my surgery, the day after — 30 Comments

  1. Hope whatever it was is fixed completely and you have no further problem.
    And may your eyesight be sharp and clear for the rest of a long life.

  2. Wonderful news! More prayers coming your way for a safe trip home as well as for the healing of your operated eye.

  3. mind the drops
    for best post ops
    and eyes that greatly see
    while in the west
    give them the rest
    to speed recovery

    Post op eye drops: topical steroids, antibiotics, atropine(?), etc. From my experience with eye surgery.

  4. I’ll agree with om on this—

    Soothing.
    Eye.
    Drops.

    Still recall the glorious relief using drops after Lasik so many years ago …

  5. No doubt you have excellent medical advice Neo.

    But for what it is worth, I had an eye impact injury in my 20’s with internal bleeding. The doc said, you need to minimize eye movement for a week or so (for when the clots dissolve).

    Then he said that sleeping actually isn’t that good. Dreaming, REM, and all that. The best he said was watching lots of TV. Of course, in those days a large TV was 20 inches.

  6. Be patient and kind to yourself. Sailor guys say “one hand for the ship”, meaning the hand is for hanging on and saving yourself. Best wishes for your speedy recovery.

  7. Neo: I did not know you were facing an op. Glad to hear that it went well, and here are some more best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery.

  8. Glad to hear it. The description “roller coaster ride” and the indication of a more detailed post in the future make’s it seem like there may have been an issue or two though.

  9. Thanks for the update, I’m looking forward to the extended version 🙂

  10. Glad to hear you are making a good recovery and thanks for the update.

  11. TommyJay:

    Fortunately, for this surgery the restrictions are much easier. No lifting more than 40 lbs. (something I don’t ordinarily do anyway). No high impact exercise (again, I don’t usually do it). Don’t touch or especially rub your eye for a week. Try not to get water in it. Three kinds of eye drops three times a day (my doctor gives you a mixture so you only have to put 3 a day in rather than 9 a day). No restrictions now on reading or TV or driving or anything of that sort.

  12. Don’t touch or especially rub your eye for a week.

    That would drive me mad and I wouldn’t be able to manage it.

  13. My wife had cataract surgery and Lasik two weeks ago. Good recovery on the first eye; slower on the second.

    Mine was done about a dozen years ago and I don’t remember anything about it.

    Hope yours goes well.

  14. Heh. The price of growing older is that the maintainence gets more elaborate and more pressing. (And not too onerous or too important for a long time, as well, we hope.)

    A speedy easy recovery to you!

  15. neo, you’re so good to us; now, you be good to yourself.
    As I wrote yesterday, easy does it. Take care . . .

    M J R

  16. Art Deco:

    Mittens and the Cone of Shame (is there non-canine version?) might work for you? Medical Science!

    🙂

  17. On COVID, seven-day moving averages:

    Global, deaths 3,523, record low for the period since 31 March 2020; now 28% below the lower bound of the period running from 31 March 2020 to 24 March 2022.

    U.S.:, deaths 481; during the period since 31 March 2020, was lower only during the period running from 31 May 2021 to 1 August 2021.

    U.S.: new cases have now fallen to a near constant of 28,000 per day. Given the case fatality rate over the period since Thanksgiving (0.0056), this suggests deaths may settle to a figure around 155 per day over the next several weeks. (Lowest recorded in the period since 31 March 2020, 245 per day on 8 July 2021).

    Curio to ponder: the case fatality rate in the UK since Thanksgiving has been 0.0018, or about 1/3 the rate in the U.S. What do you suppose is the reason behind that?

  18. Neo,
    Happy to hear your surgery went well! Prayers continue for your healing.

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