urbandruid

Okay... let's see if I can pull this off or not.

I'm discovering that there's a lot of stuff about my surgery that was not in the brocure. Like the fact that my eye is swollen, thus causing vision to be...just a little weird. Like the three different kinds of eye drops I have to give myself four times a day, two of which burn like crazy. Like the fact that all three of the drops list "blurred vision" as a potential side effect. Like the fact I have to wear an eye sheild to bed.

Like the fact I can hardly read.

I've got these reading glasses left over from the time I tried contact lenses, and I've been using them a lot, probably a bit more than I ought to be, ever so slowly reading a book. One line at a time, and it takes forever. I used to be so fast...

They promise it's all going to come back to me, that I'm going to be okay. I have an appointment with my doc on Friday to check my vision, maybe see about a prescription for glasses or whatever. I was kind of annoyed about that until my mother pointed out that it's possible that once my eye calms down, once the swelling goes away and I get used to the lens implant, I could maybe get close to 20/20 with glasses.

Which would be cool.

In the meantime... I'm watching a lot of TV, movies and stuff. Have subjected Mom to half of second season Buffy, and almost every old movie in our collection.

This is the first time I've attempted to type since the surgery. It's going a little better than I thought it would, but it's still difficult.

I'm a little better every day, just- not better on the grand scale I exected, you know? I feel like I've been a little cheated. And it's a good thing for my surgeon I don't see him until Friday- any sooner and I might punch him.

Anyway, I'm still alive, just very frustrated and not a little bored. I can hardly read, I really can't write, and I can't think of anything that I would miss the ability to do more.

Tell you this, though. That doctor better hope he knows what he's talking about, or else.

Think I'm off to try and squint at a book for a bit now. Or possibly give in to the tension headache and just watch COPS.

edited to add: I didn't bother spellchecking this, as I couldn't see the spellchecking anyway; I'm typing mostly by feel here and I know I've made some mistakes. Sorry.