Continuing on from my earlier dramas.... Friday 13th September came ... but we decided to leave the correction of the aborted left eye for another couple of months as the scan showed that "filling in" of the erroneous ablations was still taking place. Concerning my left eye, it is now back to it´s original -9.00 state (Yippee!!). So ... rather than waste the appointment, we went for LASEK on the -9.00 right eye instead. We used the same laser as before even though David had just taken delivery of a new wave front machine (which is almost portable would you believe).

The weekend following the op was quite painful even though the epithelial flap was undamaged and successfully replaced I had to force myself to go easy on the anaesthetic drops so as not to interfere with the steroid action.It was like having a piece of grit in your eye ... but you couldn´t touch it.I have to say though that after 25 years of wearing contact lens, my eye was more rebelling against the surgical lens rather than anything else.Notwithstanding that, vision even at the earlier stages looked promising.

The check-up a week later showed an over-correction to +2.00 ish. This was within David´s calculations. The eye looked physically good, which is perhaps more important. I went back last week and the eye had moved to +1.25 ish. David reckons it needs another month or two to settle to it´s final resting point. But hey .... I can do general day to day stuff (except drive and read PC screens) with this new eye without having to put a corrective lens in the left. And those of you coming from -9,00 or thereabouts will know that this is truly magical.

Plan now is to get the right to a stage where I can see a car numberplate from 25 yards before attacking the left again.

It´s all looking good at the moment. I´ll keep you posted.