[Annelle]

Today marks week 3 since the surgery.

There's been a marked improvement from week to week.

I'm able to tolerate indoor light for the most part, although sunlight coming through the windows is still bad. (If I'm staring in the direction of an open window, I'll need to close the blinds, put on shades, or just move away from the window)

I'm supposed to avoid UV exposure to my eyes for at least 3 months post-surgery, so sunglasses outside all the time, which isn't a bad habit regardless of surgery.

I know I was looked at weirdly a few times when I was in a fairly dimly lit room (restaurants for example!) and refused to take off my sunglasses! But it was too bright for me still! haha, it makes me give a bit more respect to people I see indoors with their sunglasses on -- they might have just had surgery! they're not all just insane! LOL

Anyway, current vision:
If I'm not paying attention, and don't try to concentrate, things almost look clear! They told me it'd take 3 months before reaching my final vision, so I'm not too worried that things aren't perfectly clear right now, but it's getting pretty good. Looking across the room, I can tell what every object is, but I just can't see any details. (I don't know if anybody else does this...but you know when you get kind of tired/daydream, and you're looking at something, and then you relax your eyes and stop paying attention, so that things kind of go out of focus? Kind of like that vision I suppose)

I'm at a point where I can see people who normally never wear glasses have my level of vision, and just don't ever take out their glasses because they don't want to deal with the hassle or "looking like a nerd" unless they needed to sit down to read.

If text is bigger than an inch in size, I can see it with no problems at all...and I almost can't tell that it's out of focus. If it's smaller than that, I can definitely tell it's out of focus. But it does mean that if I'm out and about and not needing to read, I'm able to function fairly normally. (But, I should still point out, you'd be surprised how often you end up reading stuff or trying to see small details on stuff all the time.)

Honestly one of the things that's got my body in shock is falling asleep. My contacts do NOT allow you to sleep in them. In fact, normally if I had my eyes closed for more than 10 seconds, they'd start drying out and get "stuck" in a bad position, throwing my vision out of whack. If I start getting drowsy, I had taught myself to wake myself up, and get those contacts out because I will severely regret it as soon as I wake up. If I have already done that and I have my glasses on, I need to make sure the glasses are off, because I don't want to break them in my sleep.

I've caught myself trying to wake myself up to make sure my contacts/glasses are taken care of, and it takes me a second to realize -- I have nothing to take care of...I'm allowed to just go asleep being able to still see things like the clock and tv. Something I don't really EVER remember being able to do. lol it's just a huge shock to me like every single night.